When doctors look up LDN in PDR

July 11, 2003

When my doctor looked up Naltrexone in the PDR (Physician's Desk

Reference) book he too found that Naltrexone was in a controlled

substance category and dismissed the idea at first. Because the PDR

does not have a thing in it about low dose Naltrexone and the usage

of it for other diseases.

It only states that it should be used for drug addiction withdrawal,

mainly heroine. It must work like Narcon used to for withdrawal

symptoms.

This is why we print out the 14 pages and highlight what referes to

our particuliar disease be it MS, Lupus, fibromyalgia, certain

cancers, Parkinson's and other mentioned diseases.

General Practioner's (GP's) are more open to the idea after they read

and study the information we provide for them. (One shoved all the

papers back at me.) Please be persistent if you want to try Low Dose

Naltrexone. Be sure you are not on any Narcotics!

Your doctor may even want to call Dr. Bernard Bihari or another

physician who is familiar with the protocal of this drug.

For fibromyalgic people most doctor's and the patient are near the

end of the treatments (or at the end of the rope) looking for help

for us. That persisent nagging over-all or total body pain is sooo

hard to treat. Eventually nothing works as years with this syndrome

persists.

That is where my doctor and I was at when we looked into LDN. Thank

goodness he gave me a choice...LDN or Guiafenesin. He found that the

pain increased with the Guia treatment and people were not willing to

stay on it due to increased pain and all of the products that a

person can't use while on it.

People with fibro pain want good relief and as soon as possible.

Some people are so down from chronic pain that they wish for death as

an escape. Which leads to depression. I know, I have been through

that.

So don't let your doctor discourage you by saying: We can't

prescribe that, because doctors can legally prescribe LDN in small

doses. The drug is approved in large doses. The drug itself is FDA

approved. The problem is this: No pharacedical company is making

the capsule in fast-acting small doses. That is why we need a

compounding pharmacist to crush the drug into smaller dosages.

I am saying this to help those who are new here or wanted to know why

the drug isn't in the PDR. Hope this helps some of you that are

confused or wondering why.

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