Re: Re: LDN questions - perspective, depression, Copaxone

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Apparently LDN effects some of us in different ways. I started LDN on July

8, 2003. 4.5mg every night since and have never missed a night. Slight

improvement with spasms and significant improvement with urinary urgency and

frequency since the very first night. No progression and no side effects

other than interrupted sleep the first two weeks. I personally will never

stop LDN, it's been a miracle for me.

Regards,

Tom

[low dose naltrexone] Re: LDN questions - perspective, depression,

Copaxone

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> This has been my conundrum. I started the ldn and actually had a

> boost in moods and was quite pleased, obviously. However, it

> quickly changed to where I had mood problems...although my physical

> problems are getting better.

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> In a roundabout way, I have been fortunate that my neurologist

> specializes in MS. In fact, despite all the drug companies, he

> refuses to treat his MS patients with any of the CRAB drugs due to

> his feeling that they are toxic to the patient. Having many friends

> with MS, especially one I am very close to, it's good to know that

> my doctor doesn't follow the pharmaceutical companies drumbeat.

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> However, it makes me more concerned when his nurse left a message

> today saying we needed to treat the side effects that I am having,

> as the elevated mood has turned to darkness.

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> I hope ldn works very well for you, as it seems to do for most, and

> I appreciate your realistic attitude towards the drug.

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> It may be surprising, but I did suggest ldn to my ex-husband's wife

> who is dealing with ldn and cancer. I truly hope and pray it works

> for her like it does for me and my ALS--just without the side

> effects I am experiencing.

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> Take Care.

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>> > grey day. More like I wish I would die.

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>> I am familiar with this feeling. Before taking LDN I was on

> Copaxone

>> and was not aware that a known side effect is depression. One day I

>> looked up the definition of depression and was surprised to find

>> myself described. I never sought treatment, and, as with you, the

>> symptom disappeared coincident to my cessation of the drug use. My

>> distrust for doctors was amplified. Again tonight I was essentially

>> told by a neurologist, that (Dr. Foley, Neurologist) without

>> large scale clinical trials, LDN must not work. He made no

> intimation

>> that he would initiate such trials, apparently preferring to rely

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>> drug companies and the journals they subsidize for supposedly

>> objective truth.

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>> I try not to tell people LDN will solve all of the word's problems,

>> but rather relate my experience. I am glad you discovered that the

>> drug is not your favorite choice because it seems not to be well

>> tolerated. If you had not tried it you would never know, nor would

>> anyone else. As for depression on LDN, until your experience, I

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>> heard the opposite in connection with LDN, that people came out of

>> depression or their moods were elevated.

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>> Good luck.

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