Re: Dr. O'Flaherty

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr. O'Flaherty,

In a couple of weeks I will be putting together many of the stories for the LDN short story book.

I have 2 e-mails that you wrote that have quite a lot of good information for which to begin your story if you would like me to try and assemble it for you. However I would like to ask for a little information as well if you don't mind.

How did you find out about LDN? What were your first thoughts about it? What brought you to think this might be a helpful medicine? Was there a first patient that took it that you were surprised to see results from? What would you like to see in the future for LDN?

Thank you so much for letting us include your story.

All my best

Aletha (from California)

[low dose naltrexone] Re: Looking for doctors in Europe to prescribe LDN

I have had one breast cancer death in the last 5 years and she refused to take LDN. All the others agreed to try it. One of those women is now 57. She had breast cancer in 1997 and metastases were found in the lungs in 2002/2003. I really had no hope for her survival at that stage and I have been little short of amazed at her recovery-I never saw a case like this before in my life. 5 year survival for breast cancer depends very much on the stage it is picked up but some of mine were quite advanced.One woman,now 47,had 6 positive glands and 3 soft tissue deposits over three years ago and has remained well. Maybe my results are pure flukes-we are very sceptical in medicine- so further research is needed on LDN.We need double-blind crossover meta-analyses over a long period before most of my colleagues will be convinced. Another of my interests is in nutrition in psychiatry and I am becoming quite used to about half of the many people with schizophrenia that I see going back to college or getting a job. The same proof is required there for my colleagues to believe in it. I must admit that being a doctor is far more satisfying now than it ever was in the past as so many of my seriously ill patients seem to get well, although I would not regard any of them as cured. I use the standard medication in all cases too.

Edmond O`Flaherty.