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Linda Elsegood: I’d like to welcome Tina's from England who has multiple sclerosis. Welcome, Tina.
Tina: Hello.
Linda Elsegood: Could you tell me when you first started to notice ms.
Tina: Symptoms? Um, I didn't know. I had the ms symptoms. It was the fact that I had to fall while I was at work. I couldn't put my sex in that joint town. I had that fused, uh, that was in 2005 and 2006 legend, 2005.
And into 2006, I found that I couldn't walk. Uh, they went back to the specialist, and they asked me to go to James Cook hospital in Middlesbrough. So I went there. I was in there a week, and everybody kept saying, no, you haven't, you know, you're okay. Cause it was written on the bump on multiple sclerosis.
And I said, no, you haven't got that. But anyway, at the end of the week, um, Mr Wolf, my consultant just hung onto me and said, yes, you have got multiple sclerosis. So it's a bit of a shock, uh, doc really.
Linda Elsegood: and what impact did it have on you and your family being diagnosed?
Tina: Oh, I think my husband lacked, uh, the tilt and didn't help. Yeah. My oldest daughter was moving away then decided that she was staying around where I live. I told her that she didn't have to, but she helped them. Um, what are the things I used to be a high impact aerobics teacher?
Um, the impact of that is just terrible, really? Cause now I'm doing nothing and I've just been to 12, lost my knife. . I wasn't very fit lady yet. I was diagnosed with.
Linda Elsegood: So, how did you find LDN?
Tina: Um, I went to the private doctor in Durham, dr. Pam to take him and, uh, through a friend of mine who went to her and I went to him, she put me when I asked her, have you got anything for him?
And she put me on naltrexone, and that was, uh, 2010. January 2010, I start taking it, taking it. I've lost a stone in weight. I feel absolutely great at the moment, but I do have, um, numbness of the legs and tingling in my fingers have started happening just this last month. And I'm glad to see dr. Ted next Wednesday.
See what, if there's anything problem? I thought my brother Walter infection, but I've had that check, and I haven't. So back to the drawing board again, if I'm taking, you know, once I see you on the ground, right.
Well, what would you say to other people who are contemplating triumph? Trying it, you just never know. I mean, I've tried to since, well, when I was diagnosed, gave me all different things like Caplin and pregabalin, and I felt I was in a lot of pain with them because enough objects are not going to talk and get around a lot more.
Even though my legs do go about the problem I've got is not lower my legs, especially my left leg and both in that, I feel fine. I feel great that I was paying the number. I became one from the top. Yes.
Linda Elsegood: So if you had to score your quality of life before you tried LDN, what would you have given it from one to 10?
Tina: And what would you say is now I'd say around about five, five to six. Now all I want to get salted out is the like problems. Cause my legs just keep going. I don't want to go into a wheelchair and yet yes, it is up to your right to use a wheelchair. What I have to think about how I want to keep it, but when I have to, I need you to use it.
Linda Elsegood: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Tina: Really? I just like to know what other people, um, the dosage of the, that are on now.
Linda Elsegood: Thank you for sharing your story with us. Tina.
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.