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Hello everyone. My name is , and I have occasionally, though rarely, responded to various posts. Now, I've come to ask for your input.

My husband suffers from Secondary Progressive MS, and was diagnosed in the mid-90's, though I suspect he had it many years prior to the diagnosis.

He also is a Vietnam-era vet who suffers from service-related spinal cord injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, diabetes and COPD.

For months last year, I struggled to find someone within the VA Hospital system who was willing to prescribe LDN. Ultimately, I went outside the "institution" by snatching one page of his medical records from them that confirmed his DX so we could get him started on the med I hoped would put a halt to this traveling destruction.

All this was done with his permission, but he was unable to even figure it out how to do it himself.

He has been on the drug now since November and, in the beginning, experienced incredible results. However, the spinal cord injury has reared its ugly head in the past couple of months. Because of that, he's having to use the Oxycodone that was prescribed early last fall, which means the LDN is only a once-in-awhile option for us now.

It seems like for every four days he takes the Oxy, he's able to go without it only two days. We've tried using the LDN on those days, but the way it looks, it's not doing much good this way.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has any comparable experience, whether with pain because of an injury, or pain due to the MS itself.

I feel desperate, yet it's hard to read my husband's feelings on this. Depression seems to be running rampant within him and I try to avoid getting him too agitated by bringing up his obviously failing health.

Any input will help; I'm grasping here. Thanks, b