Posted by bleauberry on October 7, 2009, at 9:57:20
In reply to Re: LDN Low Dose Naltrexone Questions » bleauberry, posted by Bob on October 6, 2009, at 21:26:21
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> > So there ya go! Hope it helps.
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> > Hope this helps!
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> That was a helpful post. It begs the question though as to whether you are currently taking it, and if not, why not?
>Excellent question. I am not on it. I was on it for about 3 weeks. During that time I had a roller coaster ride of feeling energetic, peppy and happy, to feeling like I wanted to cry, sometimes these waves were only minutes long, sometimes hours, sometimes entire days. It was obvious some rebalancing of something was occuring and that it was in a good direction and I had every intention of continuing.
Then I increased the dose to 3mg. Bad mistake. Severe depression. Was it a stronger Herx? Something else? I don't know. But it scared me.
The whole while some longstanding skin infections, boil-like, were getting much worse. I knew from hearing from other LDN users that the first month or so commonly includes worsening of existing symptoms, and that the worse they get in early treatment is predictive of the best outcomes in later treatment. It appears to be stage of immunopathology in readjustment. It was the 3mg dose that really scared me away.
Am I to return to it? That is a definite yes. Those minutes, hours, or days of happy energy were totally awesome, probably just a hint of things to come, and I want more of that! But I realize now it must be part of a comprehensive plan in my case, not a monotherapy. I need to include anti-spirochete agents, antifungal agents, antiprotazoal agents, anti-autoimmune agents, and anti-inflammatory agents, as well as continue to sample things that might help depression. This is actually a fairly short list of about 6 different herbs that cover that entire spectrum, all with extremely low toxicity, suitable for longterm use, inexpensive, a large body of evidence spanning generations of experience supporting their efficacy and safety.
I wish I would be in that 20% group that finds LDN by itself to be the miracle, but I think I am in the 60% group that finds it very beneficial but as a component of a comprehensive strategy.
I plan to restart it soon, likely Nov 1. I just got out of surgery and this not a good time to making any big changes for me.
When I do, it will be the 1.5mg dose for at least a month, maybe longer. When I increase it, I will be opening my compounded pharmacy capsules to make my own...increasing in .5mg steps. Going from 1.5mg to 3mg is a 100% increase. Too much for me. I'll go from 1.5mg to 2.0mg, or maybe even 1.5mg to 1.75mg.
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