LDN-NOT A CURE, Not a Cure, not a cure

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EXCELLENT POINT

The Intent of LDN is to stop Further progression. I guess Anything else it may do is just an unfortunate side effect.

Perhaps the LDN does ONLY stop further progression. Whatever the body can heal from it's return towards a level of proper homeostasis would be individual. LDN just helps your body try to return to a level is should be at. I guess the body does the rest, not the LDN.

So it would make sense if you have an sx for many years, it may take many years, if ever, to heal itself. But it's the body doing it, not the LDN. The LDN is just kick starting a daily biological chemical reaction but perhaps we can't make that ourselves, so the LDN acts as the head of a match to ignite when the other systems say let's start the e-cycle. Without the LDN, the spark just isn't there, so it doesn't cook up what it needs.

Whatever it is, even if it just 'locks someone in' to where they do not get any worse than they are when they start it, that's not a bad deal either.

And as for me, if it ever stops doing what it's done for me, or what my body did for itself with proper production cycles that LDN helps with, well, I at least have memories and days I thought, 4 months ago, I'd never ever see again. I wanted JUST ONE DAY, Again, to feel how I felt in days gone by. I've had over 100 now, and memories to last a lifetime.

One day at a time, and my days and nights have been so much better in the last 112 24 hour periods.

LDN is also just one thing I'm doing. I'm exercising when I get the stiffness, or just because. I'm still working with my chiropractors. I'm eating a lot better. I'm drinking a lot better (i.e. water, not soda, during July camping weeks). I avoid chocolate as much as possible. I'm taking some B50-Complex here and there, Coral Calcium, other vitamins, not daily, but when the mood strikes.

Of course, I'm only talking about my experiences, YMMV Now.. that toe curling thing I mentioned a while ago... being able to curl the toes on my left foot, and I'm gaining some more control over my right toes, some day maybe they'll work again also... now, THAT HAS TO BE a direct result of the LDN, if nothing else but whatever it does for the body, the body was able to communicate to my toes what to do. I would say it has NOTHING to do with MS at all, but rather the spina bifida occulta that was found on my L5, sbo is something from birth, which would explain why it's not MS, and why it's something I could NEVER EVER do before. And back in the 60s, not ONE specialist ever thought that maybe something in my L5, or maybe even spina bifida, could be the cause and reason why. Would have saved a lot of visits my parents dragged me on trying to find out what was wrong with my toes. It's such an inconsequential thing in the grand scheme, but it's phenomenal to me. Not that I can do it, just that 'all of a sudden', after 43 1/2 years, I could.

Good luck to us all

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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 17:11

Subject: [low dose naltrexone] LDN-NOT A CURE

You must understand that LDN is not a cure or fix-all. It is only to stop progression. Anything else is a perk. Many do not seem to understand that. It does have some nice side effects that benefit us . Dr. B' s only claim is to stop progression. He even says his daughters friend that has been on it for 17 yrs, still has the original hand and arm weakness but has remained the same.I personally have experienced alot less stiffness and pain. I also can fall into a deep sleep which I haven't in 8 yrs. This alone makes me feel better. I do not need my 4 pm nap anymore. As long as you accept the perks as just that, the progression is the important thing it is accomplishing. Kiki