LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

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

Linda Elsegood: Justin, from Scotland who uses LDN for multiple sclerosis.

Justin: Thanks. No problem.

Linda Elsegood: Could you tell us your MS. Story when you first got sick?

Justin:  It is the way I first got sick. It was probably noticed about when I was 30 but 15 years ago, but now they can hide it maybe ten years before that. And that was five. I was falling every day.

I was dropping things. I couldn't talk, I couldn't walk the answer myself. I couldn't walk no a hundred yards. I couldn’t walk a hundred yards without having to take her a rest. Basically, my life was not very good.

Linda Elsegood: you had to rate your quality of life at that time on a score of one to 10, 10 being best, what would it have been?

Justin: That was not a good place mentally and physically. So I would say it was as low as one. Really.

Linda Elsegood: What would a typical day have been like for you at that time?

Justin: Typical day would be waking up, open my eyes. Dreading the day, just not looking forward to getting up too, because I leave to talk to people. I know I relate to confess, but I couldn't, I couldn't do it so I can add shied away.

I had aware when we inside myself and I just, wasn't looking for me to get up just get up forcing myself to get our show on a wash and a shave some days then haven't. But. Most days, but it wasn't very good. And

Linda Elsegood: how did you hear about LDN? 

Justin: about an LDN in 2010. I got the result. I can't remember this neurologist named miss Southern general.

And she said there was no SPMS and it was on a slide, and it would probably be 18 months to two years and maybe be in a chair. So she recommended that I should go and. Reclaim my benefits because I was getting worse and it was while I was reclaiming my benefits, it was a total chance. The ghetto there was had to rate the forum for me because I couldn't even write, I couldn't even hold a pen.

And then she asked me what I was on and I said nothing. I say I want me to inject myself with Avonex twice a week to try and slow down the relapses. And she just. Last mission CDW. They're not trying to LDN. This is what the heck. No, I held her up, and she said, that's what I'm on. So it took me to go and to go and reclaim, to find out about that, which was fantastic.

And since then changed my life.

Linda Elsegood: Totally. Wow. was it easy getting a prescription?

Justin: Not from my own GP. I just met the one GP that knew me for 35 years would not write me a prescription for it. And in other GPS on the practice, all I'd done was I just went to our practice. We had a new that the people gotta get an LDN from.

So all I've done is made them an appointment to see the doctor at a specific doctor. And then. I think it was in 10 minutes, they took my blood pressure and looked me up a prescription.

Linda Elsegood: Wonderful. When you first started, did you notice any side effects?

Justin: Not one only one side effect of hiding. I tell people is complacency thinking that I'm not, not well it's what can not, well, I don't think I've got MS.

She honestly, that is just, it's been, I don't run about the house. Things like that, that you, you, you know, you shouldn't be doing, you shouldn't be able to do button by doing them again. So

Linda Elsegood: what's the typical day for you? Like now?

Justin: It's a typical day. I'm up at half-past five. I'm up. I walk every single day, every single day.

If I've not got my grandson, I'm working in a national park, my volunteer park ranger. National park. Which is a fine task, the best thing that's ever happened to me? And it's all. Thanks to LDN.

Linda Elsegood: You were telling me before we started that you wouldn't have been able to even hold your grandson, let alone look after him.

Justin: No, no, I wouldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't. My balance was don't have it. 65%. I was fallen asleep every tongue, every time I couldn't walk and look up at the same time. I had to, you know, I wasn't a very good place, but holding my son is just if anybody's got grandkids, they all know how to see. It was

Linda Elsegood: definitely well, that's amazing. What would you say to other people who are thinking of trying LDM it may be a little bit.

Justin: Okay. Can you give it a go? If you don't give it a go, you'll never know and sort of shake off. I've recommended a SABIC. That's probably about 20, you know, people run the boat, I have come to me, and I've never told anybody to buy, rate this and get online.

You can get up and go. I've told anybody to go through a doctor, find a doctor, that'll write you a prescription. And if it doesn't work for you, you're only going to lose 18 pounds, 50 nothing else, no side effects. Well, I personalized my, just my story. I have no side effects. Yeah. Tell everybody, go for it.

Nothing to lose and so much to gain.

Linda Elsegood: So did, what did I ask you? What your quality of life is like now on the score of one to 10

Justin:  it's beyond 10. It's wow. That's exactly. Yes. It's my life, as I'm using right now. Well really

Linda Elsegood: long. May it continue and thank you very much for sharing your amazing inspirational story with us, and being a ranger up in Scotland must be really wow. We'll have to get you to take some photographs.

Justin: Yeah. If you go onto my Facebook page, you'll see some pictures that I've put on already, and every day I'm up, I'm going to try and put some more on it.

Linda Elsegood: Oh, okay. Thank you very much, Justin.

Justin: No problem. Thank you very much.

Linda Elsegood: I'd like to introduce Justin's mother Elizabeth, um, who wants to share her experience that she's observed Justin taking LDN for multiple sclerosis. Thank you for joining me, Elizabeth. Welcome.

Linda Elsegood: Could you tell us what you noticed when Justin started to take LDN?

Elizabeth: I noticed that he, it could stand outright and could walk. So, so to stick, it could speak besides letting his words and the main, he was just almost back to normal.

Linda Elsegood: Wow. That's amazing. He was telling me that he helps look after his grandson.

Elizabeth: Yes. He looks after his grandson two days a week for about five or six hours.

Linda Elsegood: Well, that's amazing. Isn't it? Could you explain what Justin was like before he started out at the end,

Elizabeth: before he started LDN and had no sense of balance,  it was bumping into roles, and his legs were terrible.

Could hardly hold a pen. He couldn't write his name. Um, my husband and I were looking to get him off a wheelchair. It couldn't go out. So they had a staff, they took with them everywhere, and they had to walk near places like with railings or roles to hold onto and crossing the road was a nightmare for him because he couldn't keep his balance to Tommy's head.

Both ways to check. It was just, and not Justin. And since LDN, we've got Justin back,

Linda Elsegood: that's amazing. And it's very difficult for a parent to watch your child, regardless of what age you are, um, to actually be helpless, isn't it, you know, and I can understand from my parent's point of view when they saw me.

Uh, in a similar position to Justin, it's not easy. Is it from a parent's point of view?

Elizabeth: Devastating, especially since he, he fell and work one morning and buying cheese heads and put them in the brain and we thought we were going to lose him and luckily we didn't.

Linda Elsegood: yes. So, how would you like to sum up your views of LDM

Elizabeth: Amazing.

Linda Elsegood: Well, thank you very much for sharing that with us. It is with this. I really do appreciate it.

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.
 

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!

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you. 

Julie - England: Fibromyalgia, Lupus (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: I’d like to introduce Julie from England who takes LDN, fibromyalgia, and lupus. Thank you for joining me, Julie.

Julie: That's okay. You do it for pleasure.

Linda Elsegood: Could you tell us when you first started to feel unwell?

Julie:Um, it was about 1999 when I looked back. Um, and it was just, I used to get swelling in my left foot. I probably had it about free time.

Um, and then it just goes away. It was when I was really tired, and then it would go away when I sat and, um, You forget about it, you know, you just, um, a secret about it and seeing, oh, I don't know. Maybe he does a dummy or something, but then it went on to about 2006. I got pneumonia. Um, and I was hospitalized for eight days.

I couldn't find why it wasn't bacterial. Um, and in the end, I just kept here on my own. And then. After that, I had a lot of pain, and it's a long time to get over it. Um, and then they said I had side the myalgia, and that went. I was diagnosed in 2007, 2008, with fibromyalgia. And then I just used to have a flare if I would feel if I had a cold, if I had an upset stomach, just as that was passing, I would be then laid completely bedridden, total pain, complete from head to toe And couldn't move my head for about four or five days after being ill.

After that, he called after having an upset stomach and, um, I still, they said it was fibromyalgia. Um, and that went on actually until 2012. When by that time, I was losing weight. Um, I was very, very. Nearly lost my job. Very nearly just come on to it by the tips of my fingers. Um, I had just gone part-time. They made me go part-time because of side myalgia, but, um, I was still just cleaning into it and, um, At the end.

And then I started getting really bad man falses. And by the end of 2012, just at the beginning of 2013, I signed me, got diagnosed with lupus, add alone, along with the side, the mild child.

Linda Elsegood: And before you discovered that LDN, what would you say it now? Which day was like for you.

Julie: I don't remember what day it was going to be like. Um, it was, yeah, might have a good day, but mostly it would be staying on the sofa. Um, not knowing what was wrong. No. You know, just in my, in my head, I want you to do so much, but I just could not physically do it. I just did not do it. Um, in a flare during a flare, you know, all bets were off, but when I was not in a flare, I would still get pain, um, everywhere, even driving with NITSA, just, um, you know, Just get ready to go out and then I'd realize that I'd get to the car.

And then we like actually I've left from the upstairs, and I have to go back to the house. And that would be such an effort. Every day was a struggle good days. And bad days were struggles. I had some better days where I've got a bit more done, but my quality of life wasn't very good at all. And like I said, you know, I was on, I was on the verge of losing my job.

Linda Elsegood: So at that time, if you had to score your quality of life on a score of one to 10 and 10 being the best, What would it been?

Julie:I suppose three, four. I still I'd hoped that it was par. Yeah. Now I still had hope, but, um, yeah, I was very, very down and. And it wasn't depression. I know it wasn't depression because I've not, I don't think I really suffered from depression. I know that depression can be linked with lupus, but for me, it was because of my situation because.

I just couldn't shake it off. I just couldn't shake it off. And you know, you are asleep and think I'll just have a little shape, and it'll be a bit that I'm going to wake up, but I never was. I never was. The fatigue was always there. Pain playing in a net, Lisa random, you know, one day you just wouldn't be able to lift your arm.

It's so random, and I never knew what any day was, you know, I could never plan anything. It would be it depending on how I am, you know, it was just, couldn't make times really, um, and had to cancel things. And

just not going out because. That was my quality of life. You know, it just wasn't, um, letting people down and then feeling that feeling bad because of that. And that would get you down, but I couldn't help it. I just could not help it. I could not do very much at all.

Linda Elsegood: Yeah. Okay. So how did you hear LDM?

Julie: I first heard about it on the internet, um, actually on the health and looked site. Um, the lupus health on Luxilight, which I joined. And I stood up to Chris Steele's, um, video or DVD on YouTube. And I watched that, and I thought, well, I've got to investigate this. So then I just really started investigating, and yeah, I learn for it.

Linda Elsegood: And when you first started, did you notice any introductory side effects?

Julie: I would say, and I would want, this would happen because when I first started here, I was still on steroids. I was on steroids for lupus because other medication that had been on methotrexate for one hadn't agreed with me for that to come off of that.

And I was on steroids. So 10 milligrams a day, um, So I continued to take steroids and started LDN very low. And initially, I'd say maybe three days, three, maybe four days I was on this would happen by my prescribing doctor. The pain got a bit worse. Um, but I persevered, um, And then just slowly, very gradually began reducing steroid, letting it stabilize and up in the LDM, but it was a gradual process.

And I did, I would say about the second week of taking the LDN. I got a cold normally. It's the cold would be subsiding. I would be bedridden with pain, really, really raked with pain everywhere. But I managed to carry on going to work, which for me was fantastic. It was almost like a normal person having a cold.

I managed to work for it. I was tired, and you know, to rest when I got in from work. But. It was great to be able to, to not go into the fare. I didn't go into the flair. And that was the LDM working. I know it was 2000, 2008, any little cold, I, you know, just not used to fix.

Linda Elsegood: So how long have you been on LDN now?

Julie: I started LDN, and I know the day if my mom's birthday or on March 11, 2014.

Okay. And I haven't had to go and work.

Linda Elsegood: I mean, you haven't been on it that long. I mean we're now June.

Julie: Yeah. So like, yeah, exactly. And are now still it free to about the power. Four or five weeks, they were afraid. I'm just an LDN now. And I'm high blood pressure tablets. I still take those. But other than that, there's the occasional occasionally if I do still get pain, but I can cope with it.

It doesn't wear me down. It's all manageable. If I get, at the bad time I will take ascent or paracetamol, but that's it that's the most touch it. That's what I'm taking now.

Linda Elsegood: Okay. And on the score of one to 10, for the quality of life, 10 being the best, what would it be now?

Julie: It's eight or nine. I've still got lupus.

Um, and like you said, it's early days. I'm not cured, but I am living again previously. I was not living. I was just existing, and I can plan, I can plan things. Um, Lastly comment on a union conference for five days managed to do all that previously. I couldn't have said I'll go somewhere. We've worked for five days because I couldn't, I wouldn't have known how I was going to be each day.

So I am living now, and it's great. I'm so I just really, really. 10, if you to give it a try, you've got absolutely nothing to leave and every sheet again,

Linda Elsegood: thank you very much for sharing your wonderful experience with us. It's really amazing. Very inspiring. Thank you.

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.
 

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

Julie from England shares her LDN story she takes for multiple sclerosis, she started showing symptoms around 2002, she was feeling fatigues and having balance problems and couldn’t see very well either. She was around 57 when this first started. She had side effects from LDN that included bladder problems and constipation. She said with a healthy diet it settled down and it ended up going away. Her life improved after being on LDN and she recommends it to anyone who needs it.

Click the video link to hear the whole story.

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us. I look forward to hearing from you. 

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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Julie - US: Multiple Autoimmune Disorders (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Julia takes LDN Low Dose naltrexone for thyroid nodules, frozen shoulder, MCTD, Lupus, Scleroderma, Sjogren's, degenerative disk disease, Dupuytren's Contracture, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and more.

Judy - US: Sympathetic Autonomic Nervous System Disorder, PTSD (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: I'd like to introduce Judy from the U.S. She was diagnosed with sympathetic autonomic nervous system disorder due to chronic PTSD and trauma. Thanks for joining us today, Judy. 

Judy: [00:01:13] Thank you. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:01:15] So could you tell us how old were you when you noticed you are experiencing problems with your health? 

Judy: [00:01:26] I didn't experience, I didn't know.

 I think my, now looking back, I think my mental health was, um, was a factor, um, because I, I grew up in a sick family. Basically.

So, um, you know, I mean, well, I'm not physically, I really wasn't a sick child, right. But, um, I was like in the middle of a lot of trauma in the family, a lot. And, um, I guess it affected me since I was younger. My. I, um, felt my, um, uh, like my mother, like really involved me in her life. She was, uh, she was, you know, she told me she was going to commit suicide and she would be bulimic and she, it was just like a mess.

It was until she passed. And, um. I think I think as a child I was very distraught. Uh, I, uh, I just, it just affected me. I see pictures of myself where I had like dark circles under my eyes from when I was little. So, um. You know, it's like, to the extent of it, it just, like, I'm so far past it, but it was, uh, I was in constant turmoil and, uh, and neglected, neglected.

So, um, I, I really think that it had an effect on me. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:03:33] And what about your teenage years 

Judy: [00:03:37] and my teenage years, I was just, um. You know, I, I think I tied myself to people that I shouldn't have tied myself to. I was over empathetic. Um, just did what people wanted me to do, wanted people to like me and felt ugly when I was told the opposite.

It just, um, it was like I looked back at it now and that's just the way I was, but I had no self-esteem. Um. I just, uh, I was a mess. Yeah. I was just, uh, uh, I just, I was like, I was sick and then everybody came and talked to, but it, but I didn't have anybody to talk to. And I did. I wouldn't, I was, I was in bed.

I was ashamed, really. Okay. And I kind of, I buried everything. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:04:31] And how old were you when you got married? 

Judy: [00:04:35] I was 25. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:04:39] And how was your health? 

Judy: [00:04:43] Um, my health was fine. Actually, I haven't had a fever since I was 22. Um, the neurologist actually added in that he thinks that I had an immune disorder also.

Um, and I didn't understand because I said I was checked for autoimmune and it was negative, but he said, he told me no, if there's an immune disorder, which is, he says you can't check for that. And I, I think, I know, I think I understand now a little bit more. But, um, yeah, so, um, yeah, it was a, it was a mental issue.

Then. Like I said, I would be, since I was 22, I haven't had a fever, but, um, my, uh, I see that like certain things, especially with this disease, it, um, it. Really, um, it regulates your temperature. So my temperature always was like 96, uh, regulates your blood pressure. I would, when I got my period when I was a teenager every month, it was extremely painful.

And during those painful periods, I would, uh, my, my, uh, blood pressure would dive down. My heart would race, I would sweat and I would almost pass out. And, uh, this is just the way my life was. I would just, my, my blood pressure always took a dive and, uh, but it felt like my heart was racing out of control.

 I see that even as a youth, I, I felt full fast, couldn't consume liquids, but I didn't know any better. I think that was, that was me. I was. Over concerned about my weight. I just, because I was heavy at one point and then, uh, lost weight and people treated me different and I was just, I've always been consumed about like, I had no self-esteem, no self-awareness you see that now?

And, um, and then just life was. On. I just was, I was, as I got older, I got, I was over empathetic. I was just like, I would take care of everybody and I couldn't untie myself to them. They would, I just, I'm thinking back, I can't believe the way I was, um, until now, until, um, until this pill. I wrote something on the website just saying like, it's not even half of what I thought it was, I was just, I downplayed everything. Molestation, grade, everything.  

Linda Elsegood: [00:07:45] So before you started LDN,  what would you say your health was like? 

Judy: [00:07:53] Okay, so I got to a point. Where I downplayed everything and I absorbed the pain and I would go to the gym and just accept that I would almost pass out afterwards.

And, but then I got pain. I got pain in my neck, like really bad. I couldn't ignore it. Um, and I heard cracking in my skull and even my husband heard it from the outside. Um. And nerve pain, like shot down my arm to my finger, to my trigger finger. And my hips were always inflamed, but I just absorbed it and I went to the gym.

So I, I went to, um, uh, physical therapy and I did about 15 sessions of that. And then my other side, I had an MRI on my neck and it said bone spurs and my other side, um. I had my bicep tendon inflamed. So they gave me an ultrasound, saw was inflamed and gave me a cortisone shot and, um, that didn't help.

The only thing that helped me was, um, I was prescribed Gabapentin at night. Um, and so all I took was Gabapentin and I took Xanax for 36 years to sleep because I never got tired. I had, um, I would rev up at night. Um, and that's, this is after kids if I didn't sleep. Uh, poor days. I was, I was, uh, I would, my body would get tight and I would have heart racing.

My hair was falling out. Um, uh, like in clumps, and they just said panic attacks and alopecia anxiety and gave me Paxil and, and it still was falling out today with breaking off. But now it's not. Now it's growing in. I just thought it was just like regular breakage now, but now I see the new growth and, and um, my husband doesn't see as much hair in the, in the, um, drain.

Um, I thought all this was normal. I had, you know, I just, I thought certain things were cosmetic, um, like I could on the site. My, my feet, my, I mean, people can't believe it, but my feet were blue all the time. My toes started getting numb. My right foot started turning out. Um, my eyes were always dilated. I just, uh, I think pain-wise I hit a wall.

Um, but I at least I got some relief from the Gabapentin at first before the LDN.  so. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:10:54] So when you started LDN, how long did it take before you noticed improvements in those symptoms?

Judy: [00:11:00] Well, in, I just couldn't believe it, and in like three weeks that my feet, what I thought was normal, started turning a regular color and I was, I didn't think that was possible.

I just thought these were my legs when I took that picture. That I put on this site. I, um, I, I took that picture, just sent it to my husband because my toes were down, but I thought it was the shoes and he's, and, but he even like didn't panic cause those were my feet, you know, all the time. Um, so three weeks it cleared like physical things started clearing up.

I had done it corral Asus, um, like I couldn't go to the bathroom. I always use certain things to go to the bathroom. I woke up, I started going to the bathroom. I started drinking fluids easier. Um, I didn't know that. Like that was not my normal. I started my, I wasn't full as fast and have been like that all my life, like just extended full.

Everything physically started changing. Even my depth perception, my eyes. It was like, but most of all. I got really nervous because I didn't know what was going on. I had like, I buried a lot. I had strong reactions. I see. Um. Uh, people wouldn't know this because I was joke around, but I cared about how people felt.

Everything got to me. I just like it really, I couldn't control my reactions, but I didn't voice them. I didn't communicate. And, um, uh, every, all of a sudden I'm just being like, nothing bothers me. It's very, it's very strange. I just like went from one extreme to the other, but without trying, like, without working on myself, not knowing that there was something wrong.

So, um, physically I started changing mentally. It was like just so siding. It was very, um, very straight. And my husband actually said, I think you have PTSD. And I got angry and upset because, um. That's what military people have, not, not me. No, I was embarrassed. So you know, so it just went like that and the answer, I still have the physical changes, but I just, it took me a while to get adjusted to this because it was, I was driven by extreme anxiety.

Like my father had Alzheimer's. I was afraid I was going in that direction. But I think it was the opposite. I was like, I would be so clear-minded when I didn't even know I was foggy before. And  I went into, um, I went into the city, New York with, um, with my husband to see a play with my daughter and her boyfriend.

And I was in the theatre with them and I was, I was still taking low dose naltrexone, but I was in a theatre and the theatre was extremely cold. And like everybody was cold, you know, they just, , but when I came out, I had this reaction where my insides felt weak and they were, I've never felt this way before.

I've trembled before and I used to tremble all the time, but my insides felt like they were going to come out. And now I see it. While I was getting used to this, and because of this condition, my temperature goes 93 like in the house and in the theatre, it must've been like. Dropped, um, because I've, I've actually had hypothermia before, but this was severe.

This was, um, this, I felt like I must've been going into shock. Um, but that's all I can explain too. And every day it took, so it took a while for me to get adjusted to it, um, because I just felt very strange for months. And also not myself. And I was communicating. There were things that just lifted that I didn't even know were there.

And, um, I, it, it scared me. Even sleep. Sleep was so unnatural to me and now I was tired. I was never tired before. I was all hyped up. So physically, I just, even my friend said, I drive better. I was like on and off with a gaseous, my depth perception was. Well, if I was always on guard, I see that now. Um, mentally.

Um, it was, it was hard to get used to because I was just such, I became such a different person, um, than I was. And now I can look back and I feel, I don't feel like my past, I feel like, I know I was my past, I woke up and. I had, I was also somebody who was a compulsive shopper. I woke up and  I looked around, I couldn't believe what I had.

Like I just started getting rid of things. I didn't have that feeling of, of uh, needing stuff. It's just like I, and to me it was, that's a normal person, but I didn't know I was abnormal.  I really. It's, it sounds, I always blame things on, no, just asthmatic or whatever. But as I was getting better, if somebody upset me, I can feel the tops of my, my feet tingle.

Um, my stomach was regurgitating and I actually came home from being upset, shaking, and I, I actually. We went to bed. If I cord blood from, from my rectum, it was an, I thought, well, maybe those are haemorrhoids. But now it was just my whole nervous system affecting my nerves. My feet were tingling back up.

They were called. It was just, my reactions were still getting. Um, I was getting used to it. It was quite a ride. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:17:34] What is your health like now 

Judy: [00:17:35]  It is like never before. Uh, I, first of all, I've, we, uh, my husband's a firefighter and, uh, he's also, um, on the medicine because when I was getting used to, he's also had like, he's his, he, he was like, I can't explain it.

He was like, I see that he didn't take social cues, and that was part of my. Like marriage things. So I like you went to the doctor, he put on medicine. He's totally different now. I am so totally different. I'm easy going. I drink fluids and eat differently. I have self-esteem. I've got nervous. I see that.

I must've lived my life as being nervous. I would never have been able to do this with you. I was just nervous. I see that I was depressed. I feel I guess I, I feel what normal people feel I used to put, getting, you know, this condition, it makes your swallowing like choking. Um, like all your natural reflexes are, they don't, they don't work.

The things that people don't think about. And I looked back and I. I see that I would like, I would choke on food as it younger child. Like it was just because this nervous system, everything that works that you don't think of your eyesight, your swallowing, your temperature, your heart racing, your stomach, your, um, I had chronic kidney disease because I couldn't.

Take in fluids like a normal person. It took me a whole day to drink a little bottle of water, and now I see, I can, I see it now that that's not normal, but I didn't know it before, so, um, yeah, even I was, uh, given medical marijuana and I was just like when I was in pain, I. I would try to smoke it and it would, medical marijuana always made me crazy, but it made my pain heightened and I was, I felt like an Alzheimer's patient and this is like, I didn't, I got a like a severe reaction for medical marijuana.

And now since I've been on low dose naltrexone, it is totally different than my whole life. It just calms me. Go to sleep. Um, before it used to make my whole body shake. It changed something in my body, uh, changed my whole life. And, uh, I just, I find it amazing because I didn't even know anything was wrong with me.

I just, I'm more comfortable with myself. I didn't have a strong sense of self. I never had it before. I don't. I liked my own company. I see myself differently. I don't see myself ugly anymore. I just, my, my body's totally different. I don't, I have very, um, I, I like people more. If I speak my mind, and, and it sounds strange, but I never did.

I always buried it. I was always, I would always listen to people. I was afraid they wouldn't like me. Yeah. Everything has changed. 

Linda Elsegood: [00:21:01] We've come to the end. But what a remarkable story it was amazing.

Judy: [00:21:25] That is amazing. It is amazing. Really. I'm just so grateful that if I didn't walk into that doctor if I didn't find you guys, I don't even know what would become of me so. Um, 

Linda Elsegood: [00:21:42] thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. 

Judy: Thank you, Linda. I appreciate it. 

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

Judith from England shares her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Judith first noticed her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms when she began to develop intense migraines frequently. These developed to the point where conventional medication was unable to be effective, thus she began her search for an alternative approach.

Fortunately Judith came across Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and two years later, she no longer suffers from any headaches. A second issue with her bowels was also resolved, meaning she is more free and able to do the things she wants to do without concern.

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

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

Joy is from the United States and takes LDN for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, to boost her endorphin levels and to control her antibodies. In 2008 she had a big crash, probably from her thyroid. It would bet getter, then get worse. By 2011 she hit rock bottom – “all the fuel went out of my tank” – her thyroid was not producing enough T-3 to have any sense of wellbeing. She believes her endorphin issues started in her teenage years. In her early 20s he was treated with full-dose naltrexone for an opiate addiction, and it made her feel terrible. So, when she heard about LDN for thyroid she was concerned, but interested. She researched LDN and found it was very effective at lowering the antibodies affecting how her thyroid was working.

When she started LDN her quality of life was maybe up to 6 out of 10, because she had just started taking a natural thyroid product; before the thyroid product she was perhaps at level 2. She found naltrexone to order from India and had it shipped to her, then she mixed it with distilled water and dosed herself. When she started LDN she had “three-dimensional dreams” that were extremely vivid, but faded after about a week.  She noticed improvements in about a week as well, and had to lower her thyroid medication by about 20%. Her antibodies decreased by about 50%, but were still a bit over the acceptable range on LDN 1.5 mg. She has been on LDN 3.0 mg for a while but hasn’t been retested.

At the time of the interview Joy had been on LDN for almost 4 months, and her quality of life bounced up to an 8. If it helped her peri-menopausal hormone issues it would be a 10, but LDN doesn’t seem to be helping with that. Linda Elsegood commented that talking with Dr. Phil Boyle she learned that LDN does help with a lot of women’s problems like endometriosis, though not necessarily menopausal problems; and that LDN helped her endometriosis improve over about 18 months.

If others are unable to find a doctor to prescribe LDN. Joy recommends they do research; and gives the warning to know the signs of overmedicating with thyroid medication, as once on LDN they’ll need to lower their thyroid dose pretty quickly. Linda Elsegood advised that importing LDN from India isn’t actually legal, but realizes it may be the only way some people can get it.

Joy would love to share her information so others can talk to their doctors about LDN. Her personal physician has some autoimmune issues, and is quite excited about LDN. Linda Elsegood pointed out that the LDN Research Trust’s doctor’s information packs have been quite successful. People print it and take it to their doctors, and the success rate is very high once the doctors read the information. Word is spreading, more neurologists are using LDN for multiple sclerosis, rheumatologists are now using it as well

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

Keywords: LDN, low dose naltrexone, Hashimoto’s, thyroiditis, thyroid, endorphins, menopause, endometriosis, multiple sclerosis

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