LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Amy on the LDN Radio Show - 13th December 2017 (Low dose naltrexone) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Amy from the United States shares her Sjögren's Syndrome and LDN Story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Amy first noticed an issue with her health when she began to have a constant pain in her pelvis. She initially attributed it to her running, but as other symptoms developed she went to a neurologist who was unable to diagnose her.

Determined to find the cause of her pain, she went to get blood tests at a local clinic who eventually diagnosed her Amy with Sjögren's Syndrome. Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) has helped her to get over her ‘stiff person’s syndrome’ and get back to running regularly.

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

Debra - Lupus - 22nd Nov 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Debra from the United states takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for lupus.

I was diagnosed back in 1988. So that's almost 30 years ago. I was in my mid to late twenties and first it was the diagnosis didn't really impact my life, all that much.

I just felt more tired and had in general, a low grade feeling like I was catching some sort of virus, but I was able to continue working.

It just kind of came and went depending on how much I worked and how much stress was in my life, but I was not debilitated. And that went on for about 10 years.

And then things started to gradually degrade. I was struggling to stay working. I would catch every virus that came along and it would degrade into bronchitis pneumonia.

I got H1 N1 and unable to work any longer. And that's been about 15 years ago. Fortunately my husband could support us, but it was quite a traumatic change in my life.

I was an undiagnosed Celiacs person, and that took several years to be finally diagnosed with the help of the Mayo clinic here in Rochester, Minnesota. I was finally diagnosed with that seven years ago.

Prior to LDN, just a year ago, I had about four hours of energy a day. And that meant I had basically one thing I could do that day, whether that was going to meet somebody for lunch.

I'm an equestrian. And if I chose that day to ride my horse, that was the thing I did. So prior to LDN and a year ago that was my life one thing a day.

And I had to be very careful not to schedule too much. In one day I wasn't able to do our house cleaning. For instance, it was too physically strenuous. I wasn't able to do the shopping. My husband did that. That was too physically strenuous. I really had to be very protective of the amount of energy I could expend and save it for the things that really brought me some joy in my life.

And so that's how things progressed over 30 years.Then I was introduced to LDN by my doctor who is a medical doctor. He's an MD with a traditional degree, but he also has continued on to get a functional medicine training and certification here in the United States. And that additional training and education has made the difference for my health and a number of ways.

I tried to start at 1.5 mg of Low Dose Naltrexone and it was just way too much. I had a big lupus flare up. Felt like I got hit by a truck and we had to back it down.

I started at 0.5 and every two weeks we would increase it by 0.5 and it took me several months to let me get to the level of now. My current dose is 4.5 mg and right away I noticed a difference. I noticed an increase in energy and I didn't pay the price.

As I say for that energy, I would be able to exceed my four hours of energy and not have a Lupus flare. As a result, I could have six hours of energy and not be in bed the next day. Then I noticed, I could go all day and not pay the price and have, and be in bed with a lupus flare the next day.

And then I was able to join a fitness club. I haven't done that for 25 years and joined a yoga class. All of which I couldn't do. I had tried to do, and it would just any sort of extra exertion would send me backwards into a lupus flare.

I was now walking 30 minutes a day. I had tried to keep walking. I would get sick and then I'd be in bed for a week and I have to start all over again with the walking and build up slowly.

All those old injuries that Lupus would like to inflame. It just didn't get inflamed anymore.

I'm pretty close to being a normal person. I still have Lupus. But I think you could safely say that it's pretty much in remission. I can live a relatively normal life.

 I could work, for five or six hours out in the barn with the horses, I can help around the farm, help my husband build fence, repair fence. I'm back to cleaning my own home and doing my own shopping and making dinners again.

I'm thankful every day. I've learned to live one day at a time.

I'm very thankful that I have the doctor I have. I have organized and facilitate a auto-immune support group here in our local community. And there's a variety of people that attend, people with Ms., with Hashimoto's.

My mother is in her mid to late seventies and has Fibromyalgia in addition to a couple of other disorders, but fibromyalgia has been very debilitating for her. She started LDN. She's no longer living on a heating pad. And just got back from a two and a half week trip to Latvia and Estonia. I see her out gardening in the afternoons when normally she would have hit her limit and been inside on the heating pad.

Summary of Debra's interview. Please listen the full interview.

Renske from the Netherlands uses LDN as a treatment for Allergies. Low Dose Naltrexone from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Renske from the Netherlands takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for multiple allergies that adversely affected her quality of life. She suffered from terrible rhinitis and fatigue when the allergies were triggered by cats, dogs, grass, sulfides etc.  Renske had tried other treatments but none were as effective as Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). 

Sara-US-Rheumatoid Arthritis- LDN - Low Dose Naltrexone from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pradeep Chopra MD - LDN Prescribing Doctor - Low Dose Naltrexone - Pain from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Pradeep Chopra shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Pradeep Chopra is a pain specialist from Rhode Island in the United States and has been practising pain medicine for around 15 years. He is an anesthesiologist with a subspeciality in pain medicine and graduated from Harvard medical school in 2000. Since then, Dr Chopra has been teaching and practicing pain medicine.

Throughout his time prescribing Low Dose Naltrexone, Dr Chopra has found LDN to be effective in treating patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and some of his other patients, including those with severe migraines. 

In this interview he explains how LDN has been successful in his practice through a personal insight into some of his first hand case studies.

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

This documentary was produced for the LDN Research Trust after it was funded successfully on Start Some Good.

It aims to explore some of the uses of LDN, encourage wider knowledge of LDN and educate watchers further with a view to encouraging clinical trials.

Erin's experience of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Hypopituitary or  Secondary adrenal insufficiency, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Lupus  and Depression.

Helen from Australia shares her expereince of LDN as a treatment for Breast Cancer.

Helen from Australia - Breast Cancer - LDN - Low Dose Naltrexone from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Helen has a remarkable story to tell for Cancer and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and came across LDN in 2007 after she went to a clinic in Switzerland and that was where she learned about LDN, and she has been taking it ever since.

Helen was diagnosed with stage two and had two-centimetre lump in her left breast and had surgery in December 2005, she had two out of 21 lymph nodes positive as well. 

The surgeon wanted her to do chemotherapy and radiation but was reluctant to do either so they gave her a week to think about it. After the week she decided not to do the chemo. but the surgeon was fairly insistent that she have radiation because my cancer was on the left side.

She asked what are the side effects? He said, well, you could have heart problems, broken ribs, burning scarring and lung problems. 

She wasn't comfortable with that, she said I've got a lot of natural things I'm doing at the moment. He said, well, I've never ever seen anybody recover from breast cancer doing, doing it the natural way.

Said, "that's what I've decided to do, it is my personal decision. I'm not advocating it and it's not right for everybody". She helt but it was right for her at the time and hy husband was fully supportive.

Her alternative therapies, were not not cheap, she did hypothermia, ozone therapy, vitamin C infusions.

She also saw a Chinese acupuncture doctor and had his pills three, four times a day, that was in 2005. 

In 2007 came she had still been doing alternative therapies including LDN, she had thermography scans to check how she was doing there were no no lumps detected with thermography which is an infrared scan of the whole breast area.

The clinic also check her neck and head area too which really picks up any changes in the blood vessel structure. 

Helen had had a mammogram the next year and nothing showed up.

To listen to the full remarkable story click the video link.

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Linda Elsegood from England discusses the amazing benefits of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and the work of the LDN Research Trust

Linda Elsegood's MS, LDN and the LDN Research Trust interview from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.