Will Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Help Psoriasis?

LDN Specialist Pharmacist Stephen Dickson
Pharmacist Stephen Dickson

Will Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Help Psoriasis?

Can LDN help with psoriasis?  

From personal experience absolutely yes. The autoimmune reaction you have in psoriasis, what's visible on your skin is the same as the autoimmune reaction you're having many other autoimmune diseases. I have seen the most incredible results in psoriasis in some people. I see maybe half of people who seen a decent response. About half of them absolutely nothing happened and we don't really know why but if we are using it as an oral dose rather than a cream the absorption of a cream is probably not going to be great on psoriasis no matter how you formulate it, plus there is risk of infection, etc. So we really wouldn't recommend slathering on an LDN cream onto plaque psoriasis. 

Absolutely this is a great example of something where you can see it working over 3 to 4 months period of time once you've got to the full dose people tend to see creeping back, the redness reducing and then gradually the plaque bits you know will disappear or it becomes normal.  I mean we have seen people with very severe psoriasis over large parts of the body who were prescribed LDN for long COVID and remarkably they come back three months, four months later and they say  look also my psoriasis is gone. Sometimes it's a side effect that it makes the the psoriasis get better when actually they are using it for something else.