Re: LDN and exaserbation

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In the clinical trial of LDN for AIDS in the 1980's the doses were placebo (0) 1.5MG and 10MG . These were all very sick people and they all died, but the evaluation of the effectiveness of LDN was based on the average time to death. Placebo was of course taken as the norm but whilst 1.5Mg was show to slow time to death 10Mg was show to speed up death. LDN is generally used at the dose to boost the immune system to treat disease, but it equally can be used to suppress the immune system to give symptomatic relief. This works because some of the symptoms we note when we are sick are really symptoms of a correctly functioning immune system fighting the sickness. This method of controlling symptoms can therefore over the long term lead to a worse out-come. Many drugs used in orthodox medicine do suppress the immune system to give symptom relief, this may be good for drug sales. I guess it is a question of how bad the symptoms are and if they are really from a correctly operating immune system that should form the basis of a personal decision as to whether or not to use this method.

Dave

Message: 21 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:18:48 -0400 From: "LarryGC" <larrygc@...>Subject: Re: LDN and exaserbationWow that's interesting. Will have to keep that in mind [low dose naltrexone] LDN and exaserbation Hi Kim, When I had an exaserbation (attack) I upped my dose to 25mg for a week and it completely dissappeared. I know it is HDN but it worked better than steroids. I wasn't jumpy or jittery and I didn't feel like I needed to eat constantly. I had started naltrexone at 25mg because I didn't know of a compounding pharmacy in my area and I hadn't found the group yet. The 25mg worked for me because I was in a three month long exaserbation. The 25mg wiped out all the damage done by that exaserbation. I hope this works for you too. Hope all is well,