Guest guest Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Has anyone tried Low Dose Naltrexone?Your thoughts on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Well,anyway,my friend with fibro wants to try it.I briefly tried it,with my autistic son,but,after I got it,I found out,that many compounding pharmacies don`t prepare it correctly.I made that clear to her,that she needs to find a pharmacy,that they reccomend,as they make sure it is compounded correctly.I know,it is not,exactly natural,but,it has helped many ASD kids and many with auto immune issues. > > Has anyone tried Low Dose Naltrexone?Your thoughts on it? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 I take LDN, Low Dose Naltrexone. I still have Fibromyalgia and I still have some pain on some days, but in general I don’t need to take any pain drugs. I went from a daily average pain of 6-7 even with pain drugs to 0-3 pain without taking any. Before, I was practically bedridden and had to use a walker to just get around the house. Now I lead a fairly normal life and have even done some traveling out of state. In the drug trial they did at Stanford University, 60% of the patients had success with it. So that means that it does work for the majority of people who try it. For those who don’t know what it is, here is a brief explanation. Naltrexone was created in the 1970’s to keep drug addicts from getting the “High†of Opiates. In the 1980’s Dr. Bahari noticed that his AIDS patients who were also taking Naltrexone were living longer than those who weren’t taking it. He then contacted a friend of his, Dr. Ian Zagon at Penn State, and he did some tests. They figured out that a dose of 4.5 mg worked the best for most people. Dr. Bahari’s daughter had a friend who had MS and when she heard about it wanted to try it. It worked very well for her and so the doctor began prescribing it for his other patients. Now over 10,000 MS patients take it as well as many of those who have other autoimmune diseases, autistic children and cancer patients. Since no drug company will run tests on it because it’s a generic drug, information has been spreading by word of mouth from one person to another. About 4-5 years ago, a Fibromyalgia group paid for Stanford University to run the trial. As I said before it was pretty successful. Stanford then had a secondary trial which was also very successful, however that still hasn’t been published yet even though it has been accepted by a technical magazine. I usually recommend that people try it because it does work for so many people. It doesn’t cure anything but it does help to boost a person’s own natural immune system so that you feel better. Besides that, since it’s generic, it’s very inexpensive. If you need more information, feel free to ask me any questions, or do a search online. There are now 1000’s of websites that discuss it. Judy H To Health Through Knowledge Started taking Low Dose Naltrexone on January 20, 2009 for Fibromyalgia, Restless Legs Syndrome, Hashimotos Thyroid and PCOS http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LDNforFibro/ From: tina Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:08 PM To: fibromyalgiacured Subject: LDN Has anyone tried Low Dose Naltrexone?Your thoughts on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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