FWIW - Been on LDN since 11/8

December 1, 2008

I've been taking 3mg of ldn every night after working my way up from

1mg. I'm hypothyroid (no antibodies) and have fibromyalgia that

armour has not taken care of yet (I've been on armour since May). I

have a really hard time sleeping due to pain. My doctor, bless his

heart, gave me a script the first time I asked about it. I didn't

even have to give him all the documentation I printed out on it. So,

far I seem to be sleeping a little better. I'm still waking up during

the night but I can usually go back to sleep. I'm dreaming up a

storm, which is entertaining. One night I dreamt I was out with

Ray Cyrus. We watch waaaay too much Hannah Montana around here,

LOL!!! My hip and shoulder pain seem to come and go. Right now with

the rain, it's back. Another thing that has improved is my stress

incontinence. That is a really nice and unexpected benefit.

I'm still taking melatonin (10 mg) , elavil (25 mg) and benadryl

(25-50 mg) along with the ldn in an attempt to STAY asleep at night.

I tried for about a week some lithium orotate. That seemed to work

great for the first few days, I didn't need the elavil or benadryl.

But then I started getting stomach pains at night. Not the kind of

pain caused by indigestion or relieved by pepcid. So I stopped the

lithium.

Funny thing though, 4 days ago, my period came back. It disappeared

completely in October. It could be meno kicking in, it could be that

my armour dose was too high making me hyper and stopping my cycle. I

had other hyper symptoms too... fast heart rate, flushing, high FT3

and high FT4 so I cut back my dosage. So the stomach pain could have

been cramps and I just didn't know it. I'm not sure the lithium

orotate will be viable for me since lithium, I've heard, supresses the

thyroid. That's not something a hypothyroid person wants. But I

don't know if the lithium orotate, being low dose, has that effect.

But any how, I'll continue the 3 mg until my bottle of 1 mg ldn is

gone and then try going up to 4 mg and see how it goes.

Lorie

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