Off topic, BBD

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"BBD" is the Best Bet Diet intended to deal with MS from a dietary approach. It has as good a success rate as many other MS treatments, and has the happy extra benefit of being a heart healthy overall improved body health kind of diet. The problem is that it is restrictive and hard for a lot of people to incorporate into their lives and their families lives... however many many people successfully do so and swear by it. A web search for "Best Bet Diet" will bring up several sites.

Is anyone here successfully following the BBD and able to offer me advice for breakfast? I can handle the rest of the day with a little planning, but I have a really tough time with breakfast...

(MS)

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low dose naltrexone

Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 7:22 PM

Subject: Re: [low dose naltrexone] Waiting for improvement. Any advice?

Sally in Indiana,

I experience short"remissions" in the evenings also. It sounds like we have similar walking patterns.I'm still walking, if you can call it that.I'm very wobbly, but I move forward as long as the ground is FLAT and smooth.But back to the remission moments....mine happen about 9-10 pm and last until I go to sleep, but are gone in the am.My theory is that it may have something to do with the timing of endorfin production in the body. We do take the LDN about those hours for a reason, don't we?

I'm on LDN only about 6 weeks now.Sorry to hear about your exacerbation. How long ago was your ms dx? What is BBD?

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From: low dose naltrexone

Date: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 06:54:10

low dose naltrexone

Subject: [low dose naltrexone] Waiting for improvement. Any advice?

As I write this, I am nearly six months into LDN and six months into an

exacerbation. I imagine this one may be a permanent change for me by now.

I am numb on the left side with numbness in both feet. I feel mentally foggy

quite often. I am taking 3-mg LDN. I have missed a few doses, but basically

have taken this since Dec.19. The exacerbation started on Dec. 17.

I am doing the supplements that Dr. Lawrence recommends. With those, as

well, I have missed a few days. I am going to start BBD. Earlier in my

diagnosis, this plus juicing improved the symptoms.

I am getting weary of feeling so nasty. I am still walking, but feels as if

I am walking on stilts (and, at 5'11", that can be a bit intimidating!

LOL!). I feel I am short-changing my kids. I wonder if by my starting this

during an exacerbation it is taking longer to help? I also notice that

if/when I wake up around 3 in the morning, things feel normal with no

numbness at all. Anyone else do this? Weird! I does encourage me, though, to

know that the nerves are not "dead."

Thoughts? Thanks for listening to yet another whine!

Sally in Indiana