LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Kimberly - US: Cancer, Fibromyalgia (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Kimberly, from the US takes LDN for fibromyalgia, and she also has a service dog (a cocker spaniel) who takes LDN for liver disease and liver cancer. 

She started her dog on the medication around a year ago, and noticed she could now walk, after spending a year without being able to do so, and is also surviving cancer and liver disease.

Kimberley has been ill with Fibromyalgia for around 17 years. Her symptoms were chronic fatigue at first, which eventually led to not being able to walk for three months after being incredibly active. 

Before taking LDN, Kimberly would spend the majority of her time housebound and depressed. She would also get mouth sores and a chronic cough along with a swollen face occasionally. Sometimes these symptoms lasting weeks upon weeks. Kimberly also mentions feeling pain as though someone has beaten her with a baseball bat. Exhaustion, lack of appetite, migraines and struggling to breathe also were felt regularly.

After taking LDN sourced from her own GP in California, she has felt more stable with an increased quality of life with no side effects.

Kimberly urges that people try the medication when asked if she recommends it saying “LDN can give them the quality of life.” She is very grateful for LDN, for herself and her service dog.

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

Kim from England shares her Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story which she takes for multiple sclerosis.

She first notice her symptoms when she was 17, she had numbness in her legs and slight paralysis and was full paralyzed around 6 weeks later.

Kim went to the doctors and got diagnosed with MS, before LDN she couldn’t walk far and had no balance and couldn’t bend over and had to stay in bed.

After LDN she had a drastic change in life quality, she gained her balance back and was able to do everyday things again.

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

I'd like to introduce Kevin from England, and Kevin has multiple sclerosis. Welcome

Kevin: Kevin. Hello, Linda,

Linda Elsegood: could you tell us, when were you diagnosed with MS.

Kevin: Diagnosed in 1997,

Linda Elsegood: right? Yeah. And how old were you at the time?

Kevin: I would have been 37 coming up to 37. Anyway.

Linda Elsegood: So, what led to your diagnosis? What was your life like before then?

And what kind of symptoms did you have?

Kevin: Um, well, I was at a Bible college. So some do a little bit of stress, I suppose. And I just started with pain in my elbow, which I went to the doctors and they said it was tennis elbow combat next week. And I'll give you an injection. I went back the next week, but by that time, my hand was just doing whatever he wanted to do.

So he said, I don't think it plans yourself and send me to the hospital where they did all sorts of tests that

Linda Elsegood: trauma you had in your hand. Um,

Kevin: I'm not sure what you call it. My fingers were just one shape. They were twitching and moving. I just had no control over them. Um, really the lower parts of my arm. I had very little control over.

Uh, he sent me into a hospital where they did all sorts of tests and finally came up with the position straight away. 

Linda Elsegood: That's unusual because most people tend to have to wait quite a while.

Kevin: I feel so sorry for people, but that must be horrible.

Yeah. I mean, if, if fall back, I did have problems with my eye. They just said that was probably an infection and Tom had to go away.

Linda Elsegood: So how long did you have MS before you learned of LDN?

Kevin: Um, well, I was diagnosed 97 lent about probably 2005, 2006 and spent the next two or three years trying to convince the doctor to prescribe it.

Linda Elsegood: Did your own GP prescribed it for you?

Kevin: I did eventually. Yeah.

Linda Elsegood: Very lucky.

Kevin: It was, it was, it was a lovely man had,

Linda Elsegood: sorry, are you still getting it

Kevin: on the NHS?

, I'm at the moment, but I did send you an email today because we've just moved. I had to give up work because of my MS. And we've moved out and changed doctor, and my doctor holds those. The one I spoke to was very sympathetic. Just tells me a lot to try and get me to a neurologist and questioning whether they can continue with my LDN.

Hopefully, I'll continue, but I don't know. I've got to try and take lots of information to it to convince her.

Linda Elsegood: Yeah. How has that LDN helped? What symptoms is it helped with?

Kevin: I was. Very, very urgent and going to the toilet and it's come knocked down a lot. I was getting, you know, five, six times during the night. Now I, if I get to one-story night, I'm not the most. Sometimes it doesn't get too possibly.

Linda Elsegood: Yes. Well, I used to get up six times a night, and I guess at once, and I still feel hard by, I like my sleep that I really shouldn't complain once it's not handled there is that my mother always, always gets it twice anyway, so she's worse than me.

Kevin: Yeah. It's an that's affected my leaving away. Well, now something that will be enough. I'll go to bed. A good night's sleep. You can wake up feeling just as tired about something could happen.

Linda Elsegood: do you feel that the Fatigue you use to?

Kevin, I'm not sure how. I think I probably come back to feeling as fatigued as they used to. Certainly, initially, it helps a lot with fatigue. Hmm.

Just cause I've got work or not. I want,

Linda Elsegood: did you have any initial side effects when you started LDN?

Kevin: I did no, no dreams or anything. I was looking forward to my dreams, but I never got it. Well, I don't want to dislike it. Would it be nice? Not

Linda Elsegood: so what's your level of fitness now?

Kevin: Um, I can still walk in the house.

And I can get the time side, but if I go sort of reality beyond the gate, I can get to my car, or I need my wheelchair.

Linda Elsegood: Did you ever have any cognitive problems?

Kevin: No, I don't think so. No. No.

Linda Elsegood: What would you say to other people with MS. Who to thinking of trying LDN? 

Kevin: Tell them it's really worth trying.

And I say, even if it's just for my sleep, I'm certain if I think deeply other, even if it's just with my toilets in there, nothing is worth me taking it. And there are so many things that come out that I advise anybody I speak to try and get the,

Linda Elsegood: what about your eyesight? 

Kevin:  is back to normal.

Linda Elsegood: Yeah. What about your hand? 

Kevin:  that went back to normal. Thirdly, quickly, I had a course of steroids and went back, although I've still got numbness in my hands and my feet, it came off at the same time.

Linda Elsegood: So will you be continuing to take LDN?

Kevin: I will definitely. Yeah. I don't want to stop taking it. Yeah. If I'm open, I'll convince the dumpster to apply by October looking at all the options tonight, because I, I do also feel that eight days old dating back, even though my wife would dying, I know I'm feeling a little bit worse and I lost two or three years ago.

Linda Elsegood: Good. Well, thank you very much for sharing your story with us.

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for joining us today. We really appreciated your company. Until next time, stay safe and keep well.

Kevin - England: Cancer (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Kevin from England, takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Chronic Hepatitis, which then developed into Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Kevin found LDN through a friend and his wife, who have been taking LDN for months, saying they are now symptom free. Due to LDN not being official within the NHS, Kevin managed to get some LDN privately. Now, two and a half years later, Kevin has had no further recurrences.

After Kevin had a liver transplant, he no longer takes LDN due to him being prescribed immunosuppressants. 

Although, Kevin does recommend Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) to other people, his mother and friends. He also quotes that it probably did help save his life from his cancer journey.

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

Kerry from the United States to takes LDN for Hashimoto's where she was diagnosed in 2002. However in the year 2000 she started noticing weight gain, and hair started falling out, she was also constantly having some sinus infections. 

After tests, confusion and different medications such as antibiotics, Kerry was still feeling constantly exhausted, her hair was thin, acne breakouts were common and she was gaining weight. Her cholesterol levels and blood pressure were also going up. There was no answer for Kerry, apart from the fact she did have Thyroid Disease. 

After time on social media, she came across a doctor mentioning Low Dose Naltrexone medication (LDN), and how it's helped Hashimoto's patients. Her general practitioner had never heard of LDN, although she was willing to let her try. Even getting a prescription from her pharmacy in Florida. After some time testing different dosages, Kerry’s energy increased greatly, her hair seemed softer, and her body seemed more hyper. 

To conclude, Kerry definitely does recommend Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) to people who have Hashimoto’s.

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Kelly - US: Rheumatoid Arthritis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Kelly from the United States takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). She first started experiencing symptoms a little over five years ago, dealing with mental inflammation and pain in her joints.

After a countless number of doctors and different medications and tests, about a year ago, symptoms reoccurred. Kelly went back to her doctor where he then suggested LDN. Some inflation was decreasing; Kelly still had a lot of stiffness and some pain. Now she can move around easier. No longer feeling exhausted or tired. She was sleeping, her appetite was back, and inflammation was down. 

Within the first week of a higher mg of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN); Kelly felt that the pain was completely gone and rated her inflammation a 2/10, with 10 being the worst.

Kelly recommends the Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) medication, with it being cost effective compared to other medications, also explaining how you see immediate results, and how moods improve.

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Kelly - US: Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Kelly from the United States uses Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

"After my third pregnancy in 1985, I never really got to feeling well after that. Low on energy. I mean, just could not function through an entire day. I worked on a ranch south of where we live, and it was a 30-mile drive, but it was out in the country. So on the way down in the mornings, I would feel tired but on the way home, I would go into a black tunnel. I couldn't have the sheets on my bed to touch my feet. It was just excruciating pain. I was having symptoms of Rheumatoid arthritis plus I was having symptoms of Lupus.

Then I started going to rheumatologists, and so he put me on Methotrexate, which I just couldn't see that much progress. There was several of us ladies that were going to the same rheumatologists plus we had mutual friends. One of them used to be on a couch for weeks and she told me she was on Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and was feeling much better.

And so we went all started going to dr. Berkson from that point. I was prescribed with ALA along with the Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and so it took me probably a good six months to a year before I was totally weaned off of the Methotrexate and the antidepressants, and really starting to feel like a real person again.

I started having my own thoughts again and feeling like I could work again because whenever I was on the Methotrexate and the antidepressants, I couldn't even drive.

And so whenever I finally got to the point that I could drive again, and I actually went back to work again, and I felt whole again. That point is wonderful.

I'm still tired of demands of the day, but I'm working in a hardware store managing a hardware store. And so it's hard work, but  I can drive myself home at night without falling asleep. And I sleep well at night. So being tired at the end of the day is a good thing, but not being tired all day is also an extra bonus.

If there's a change of weather coming I know it, because my pain and swelling of the joints returns.

I will get those when low pressure comes in, and they'll swell just a little bit. But other than that I don't have any pain.

I am on LDN probably for 9 years.I felt good for probably eight years. It's just amazing. I can't even describe what a different life is now than it was.

And I used to get an extreme migraine after the third pregnancy. I've had an hysterectomy,  kidney stones. I've had every cold, every flu, every stomach bug, everything that came through. I was constantly sick, and I was in the hospital more than I was out. I haven't had a cold probably in five years.

Extract from Kelly's interview.

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Kay - US: Fibromyalgia, Lichen Planopilaris, Chronic Sinusitis, Allergies/Chemical Sensitivities (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda shares a wonderful LDN success story of Kay who suffered for years with fibromyalgia. She had a weak immune system and also had chronic sinus infections, allergies, colds, and migraines constantly. She had immediate relief after starting Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) a year ago. The pain and other FM symptoms are gone and her energy is back to normal. Her quality of life has gone from 3 to 9 out of 10. Listen to her encouraging story.

Katie - US: Fibromyalgia, 15 Nov 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Katie from the US has been taking Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Fibromyalgia for two years.  In this interview, Katie talks about how her doctor measures her progress with blood work every three to six months looking at the inflammation markers, which have been consistently decreasing. 

Katie suffered from fatigue to such a degree that she had to stop working and her days were pretty grim. Katie says that Low Dose Naltrexone is worth trying primarily because there are no side effects.  Katie says “I think for other people who have fibromyalgia, there can be chemical sensitivities or sensitivities to medications. It's really nice to take a medication [LDN] that has very minimal side effects”.  Katie was unable to return to work but, as she says, she’s not suffering any more and that’s enabled her to do all the social things that she was missing previously. Katie says she feels she now has her life back.

Kathy - US: Rheumatoid Arthritis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Kathy had a very aggressive form of Rheumatoid Arthritis, she was in a lot of pain for a long time.  Her life was unbearable and no amount of medication helped her situation at all with the exception of high doses of prednisone, which helped a little.  At only 58 years old she was pretty sure she was going to die. 

Her friend told her about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and so she found a rheumatologist who agreed to prescribe it with the view that it couldn’t do any harm.  Kathy never had any problems with LDN but she’s had much success. From not being able to simply dress herself she went back to riding her horses and throwing hay bales - in her own words “There is nothing I can't do. And I would say it took about three months for it (Low Dose Naltrexone) to be effective”.  

An amazing story from a woman who has suffered so much pain.