Re: LDN and exaserbation-dosage???

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Hello, the data below on LDN dosage and AIDS is very interesting.

These patients must have been very ill to start with. Keep in mind

that naltrexone was first used at daily doses of up to 150mg for

substance abuse. Did these " addicts " immune systems collapse because

of naltrexone? I don't recall reading that was a problem. I don't know

how Dr. Bihari came up with 4.5mg of naltrexone as the optimal dosage,

why not round off to an even number like 5.0? Maybe a pharmacy would

confuse 5.0mg with 50mg? It seems most of the research on

naltrexone/ldn was done 10 years ago and we've been working a lot on

best guesses ever since. I really don't buy into the line that 4.5mg

of LDN works best for women and 3.0mg works best for men. What we need

is clinical lab data on LDN for many diseases and how it effects the

immune system. If a drug company won't do it, why can't a university?

I also wish that after about 2 years, the LDN website could update the

status of Dr. Bihari's patients. I am very interested, especially, on

his Parkinson's patients since there are very few of us on LDN and we

have no clue on how others are doing. I've been to Parkinson's web

sites trying to get them interested in LDN, not much luck. If anyone

here is taking LDN for Parkinson's and would like to post on the

Braintalk Parkinson's website, please do so (hope it's encouraging news).

Just a lot of thoughts,

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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.

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> Dave

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> Message: 21

> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:18:48 -0400

> From: " LarryGC " <larrygc@s...>

> Subject: Re: LDN and exaserbation

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> Wow that's interesting. Will have to keep that in mind

> [low dose naltrexone] LDN and exaserbation

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> Hi Kim,

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> I hope this works for you too.

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> Hope all is well,

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