LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Julie - US: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Julie from the United States takes LDN for Hashimoto's thyroiditis after noticing issues after the birth of her son, at the early age of 30. Julie started experiencing some fatigue, constipation and eczema. And then after the birth of her son, she was getting the flu a lot; feeling exhausted. Julier found out that she had the MTHFR gene mutation. Which also further hinders your body's ability to detoxify.

After 12 different physicians that never helped her. Julie told them what her symptoms were, her theories, and that her thyroid was not well. They carried on telling her she was fine. 

Julie has been very disappointed with endocrinologists, after her strange experience with her antibody testings. During this time she hasn't been able to find one to prescribe Low Dose Naltrexone medication (LDN). Even after taking it and telling an endocrinologist that it helped, they still wouldn't prescribe it or even expressed interest in learning about it.

Julie felt the difference with the Low Dose Naltrexone medication (LDN) immediately. She felt perkier, better moods, and had more energy .

Julie’s advice to people who have Hashimoto’s is to try LDN, work on your diet, eliminating gluten and cutting down on superfoods. The LDN medication has also made Julie happier, she feels a world of a difference with less anxiety and depression also.

Please watch the video for the full interview!

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Julie - England: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Julie from England shares her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Julie first noticed symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) around the age of 53 when she had a respiratory infection which she seemingly was unable to fight off. Following on, she suffered from severe chest pain and found that it required incredible effort to go out or go anywhere as her energy levels were so low.

Now that she has discovered Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), her overall energy levels have increased again and the pain has been dramatically reduced. This rapid increase in her quality of life means that she is now able to spend more time with her family and live her life the way she wants to, unrestricted by CFS/ME.

This is a summary of Julie’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Julie’s story by clicking on the video above.

Julie - Australia: Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Julie is from Australia and takes LDN for Hashimoto’s disease. She was diagnosed in 2007, but looks back on having symptoms several years before. She was tired all the time, losing her hair, had dry skin, couldn’t eat well and living on one meal a day, had aches throughout her body, started to lose strength and muscle, depression, had brain fog almost every day, frequent urination, constipation, loss of balance, dry eyes, blurred vision, cold hands and feet – her hands would go numb in air conditioning - sensitivity to heat, tightness in the throat, neck pain, feeling her head too heavy for her neck to hold up, and limited neck range of motion. She had an internal tremor that made her feel weak; and air hunger as if not getting enough oxygen despite deep breathing. She had low blood pressure and body temperature.

The symptoms started to impact her job and social life. An ultrasound showed 2 nodules on her thyroid and a shrunken left side of the thyroid. Initially she refused medication, thinking she could get better on her own. She went to a naturopath to try for a natural way to heal, but 12 months later had to go on medication. She chose natural desiccated thyroid and got some good from it balancing her hormones, but symptoms didn’t go away no matter how much doctors tweaked her medication. She saw lots of doctors over 5 years, but remained debilitated by the symptoms. She attributes it to the hormone not actually entering the cells.

About 18 months ago her doctor recommended LDN and Julie researched it and decided to try it. When she started she quickly was able to reduce her thyroid medication. But then she had a bad virus lasting 3-4 weeks; then got Candida, which she heard can stop LDN from working. She got fantastic support from a Facebook group.

Julie feels her improvements from LDN are fantastic - from being sad, debilitated, and tired, to loving life and cheerful. Over the last 18 months she has gotten about 50% of her life back, and knows she’ll continue to get better. She feels she started at a quality of life of about 2 on a 10 point scale, and currently is about 7

She tells others about how good it is, and gives much credit to Deb who runs the Facebook group on beating Hashimoto’s disease with LDN.

Summary of Julie's interview, please listen to the video for the full story.

Keywords: LDN, low dose naltrexone, Hashimoto’s, thyroiditis, thyroid, thyroid nodules, natural desiccated thyroid, Candida

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Johnny - US: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Johnny has suffered from ME for nine years; since the age of 21. He rates his overall quality of life at 3 before taking Low Dose Naltrexone. Since taking it that's gone up to around 6. Though he still has several health issues it's made a huge difference.

He suffered from insomnia, swollen glands, sore throats, headaches, joint pain, overwhelming fatigue, which is probably the most common, symptom, sleeping a number of hours and not feeling refreshed, memory loss, brain fog, feeling disorientated at times, not retaining information, forgetting what he was talking about halfway through a sentence.  He also had IBS after the ME, so he had bowel issues. 

He has been taking Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for seven months and the severity and frequency of those conditions has decreased slightly. It's the only thing that has relieved anything other than overall health, eg diet and supplements.

This is just a summary. To hear the full story simply click on the link.

John - England: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

John from England takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for his Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). During the years 1981-82 he had a muscle virus, where he had to deal with the aftermath. During this time he was 31 years old, still teaching judo, so he was an incredibly fit, strong and active person.

His symptoms included, trouble walking, he was tired all the time and found concentrating difficult. He even had a headache from October to July the following year. After his first consultation, it took the doctor some time to be able to prescribe the LDN medication to John. Initial symptoms with the new medication included insomnia, although he no longer had brain fog and his ability to concentrate went up, and he has now been on LDN since January of 2010. He quotes it has been excellent.

John quotes that if other people would like to try LDN for themselves, they have to be brave, the reason being that you have got to stop the pain killers and opiates. But, do give it a serious try.

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Joanna - England: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Joanna was 14 when she first started noticing Chronic Fatigue Syndome (ME) symptoms. At first she had acute pancreatitis which was caused by gallstones, further leading to infections. As well as this, normal symptoms included muscle pain and pains in her eyes which only got worse over time. 

Unfortunately, the NHS gave little help or understanding over Joanna’s difficulties with her disease. All that they offered was referral to a support group. Later on Joanna heard about a clinic based in Liverpool, where she told her GP that she was referring. Joanna heard about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) through a friend who was using LDN treatment himself. Which resulted in him having much success and recommended that Joanna would look into it. 

Using a private doctor, blood tests resulted in Joanna having the LDN medication, which she agreed to and was on it for 6 months with this private clinic in Liverpool. Due to circumstances, Joanna had to go back to the NHS where it took her countless attempts for the NHS to oblige for the LDN medication prescription.

As she knows of, Joanna did not have any side effects, it took two months for her to notice improvements which resulted in more energy and bad fatigue, which she then rated her quality of life a 6/10.

Summary of Joanna’s interview, please listen to the video for the full story.

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Key Words: ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, acute pancreatitis, gallstones, infections, muscle, pains, NHS, Low Dose Naltrexone, LDN, quality of life, fatigue, energy

Jill - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Jill from England was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1996. Her symptoms included fatigue, lack of motivation, numbness in the legs and blocked vision in her left eye. She mentioned LDN to a urologist, however he dismissed it. She started taking Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) last August as symptoms were getting harder to manage, after conducting her own research. 

Within two weeks Jill had noticed a relief in the fatigue, and also her quality of life had improved. She recommends people try it, as you won't be any worse off, and may find enormous improvements.

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Jenny - US: Ulcerative Colitis, Hashimoto’s, Autoimmune Issues, 01 Nov 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Jenny from the US takes LDN for Ulcerative Colitis, Hashimoto's, Grave Disease and other neurological autoimmune issues. Jenny’s first symptom was ocular migraines about three years ago. Allergies increased after that, fatigue and mood swings. Jenny had heard of Low Dose Naltrexone early on in her illness as she had researched.  The first thing she tried was the Paleo diet which helped but she then saw a holistic doctor who diagnosed Hashimoto’s and Graves Disease.  Her doctor suggested Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).  Jenny has been on LDN for 10 months and says it’s been spectacular - her food sensitivities resolved, energy levels improved, mood improved and her fatigue lessened.  Jenny now feels almost back to normal and would recommend that others try it for any autoimmune disease.

Jennifer from the United States shares her experience using Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) to treat Hashimoto’s, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and Lyme disease.

She first noticed symptoms in January of 1999. She thought she had the flu, but was sick for a week with a high fever and migraines. After that, she didn’t feel as if she’d recovered. When she went back to the doctor, the only thing that came up on testing was kidney failure. At that point, she had to stop playing hockey and drop out of night school for college, and it was difficult to work her full-time job. She had problems with fatigue and focusing. Over 14 years she saw over 40 different doctors and had over 60 tests done, but the doctors never found much that they could diagnose. However, her health continued to decline. Doctors ran tests for Lyme disease, connective tissue disease, other types of autoimmune disease, and Marfan syndrome, but they couldn’t come up with a good explanation for her symptoms. Eventually Jennifer developed Hashimoto’s and Ankylosing Spondylitis. Her doctors also found she had two mutations of the MTHFR gene. 

In 2012, she went to the Cleveland Clinic and saw a neurologist who recognized her autoimmune conditions. He recommended a gluten-free diet, which was helpful in reducing her rheumatoid factor. At that time, she still suffered from fatigue and chronic urethritis, which was very painful. Finally she saw a urologist who recognized she had an infection in the walls of the urethra, and put her on antibiotics. However, the antibiotics weren’t very helpful in relieving her symptoms.

By 2013, her symptoms would flare and subside, but she began having IBS issues as well as increasing cognitive problems and migraines. She couldn’t walk right, she couldn’t talk right, and her writing was illegible. She felt that she had a lot of symptoms of Lyme disease, but the infectious disease doctor said she didn’t have it. She then went to a lung doctor who tested her again. This time her tests were negative for IgM, positive for IgG, and positive for bartonella, anaplasma, and mycoplasma. He started her on low dose naltrexone in October of 2013. They started at 3 or 4.5 mg, which was too high of a dose, so they went down to 0.5 mg, which was a better dose. She learned that she reacted badly to the higher dose of LDN because of her chronic Lyme disease, parasites, and systemic candida. Within a year, she responded to the LDN and her doctor was able to gradually increase her dosage to 3 mgs as her health issues resolved.  

Just before starting LDN, Jennifer would rate her quality of life at about a 1 on a scale of 1-10, due to constant pain, fatigue, and sickness. 

In terms of side effects of LDN, Jennifer had vivid dreams for the first week, but after that, she’s had no ill effect from the LDN. She does find that it works best for her to take LDN in the early evening, around 6 or 7 pm.

Jennifer noted positive effects from the LDN in the first week of taking it. She was able to lower her blood pressure medicine, and her IBS issues resolved. She also was able to get off all of her allergy medicine, including Singulair and two inhalers. Initially, her pain levels increased, but after the first two weeks, the pain went away. The LDN has allowed Jennifer to get off of about 90% other medications, and she’s lost over 30 pounds. 

At this point, her quality of life is significantly improved, though she’s still dealing with the Lyme disease and coinfections that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for over 14 years, so on a scale of 1-10, she’d rate her quality of life at about a 5. She would definitely recommend that patients with her conditions give LDN a try--she tried LDN instead of going on the biologic Remicade, and she’s glad she did. The LDN regulated her immune system rather than suppressing it. It might seem to make some symptoms worse at first, but in her experience the LDN just brought forward underlying health issues that needed to be addressed. As those issues are addressed, her quality of life continues to improve. 

This has been a summary of Jennifer’s story. Please listen to the interview for the full story. 

Jennifer - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Jennifer from Canada shares her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood

Jennifer was officially diagnosed in 2000 with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), but had suffered from a  litany of symptoms prior to her diagnosis. These included blurred vision, which she noticed when mowing the lawn one day and she couldn't see the bottom of the garden and bladder problems. Jennifer had also been suffering from fatigue since she was a child.

Jennifer had also tried multiple other medications that had little to no benefit on improving her health before she found Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). 

“I noticed improvements in my health almost immediately. The muscle spasms in my legs stopped allowing me to walk again properly, and also the spasms in my bladder which were causing me to use the bathroom so frequently and have restless nights.

I would like to say that if you’re thinking about trying LDN, then give it a shot. It’s really not that expensive. Just start low and go slow, work your way into it.”

This is a summary of Jennifer’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Jennifer’s story by clicking on the video above.