Re: Don't expect LDN to halt or slow yourprogression...

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I know you were writing this in response to anothre comment but I wanted to thank you for writing thsiinsuch an understandabld and concise way.Sinc I have just started the LDN myself, I really needed to hear this and now I know I will need to be patient nad wait. SO far I would not say my symptoms are better or worse but I am tapering off of prednisone right now and tha tin itself wil laffect me in someways so until I am clear of the steroids I cant even begin to g iuess what the LDN is doing and I understand this now.Then I will give it more time after that as well. I am SO THANKFUL that LDN is an old drug and NOT EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!

Nola

[low dose naltrexone] Don't expect LDN to halt or slow yourprogression...

in only a few months trial of the drug. You must give LDN 9 months to a year to get your endorphins up enough to re-orchestrate your immune system. Just because LDN doesn't give you symptom improvement doesn't mean that it's not working to halt or slow your disease progression down. Those who give up on LDN in the early months because it doesn't give them symptom improvement cannot say that LDN didn't work for them...how do they know it didn't work...they weren't on LDN long enough to see if it would halt or slow their disease progression. When a person says LDN didn't work for them ask them how long they were on it and why they felt it didn't work. If you get the answer that it didn't help their symptoms then you know that all they were looking for was symptom improvement and not a halt in their disease progression. If you have someone say that LDN didn't halt disease progression ask how long they took LDN...if less than a year then LDN was not given a fair trial.There can be many reasons LDN doesn't work. For one, no 1 drug works in everybody. Misdiagnosis...there are many diseases that mimic MS and other autoimmune conditions. Pharmacies could be compounding LDN incorrectly in different ways. You could be on too high of a dose for your system or too low of a dose to halt progression. One may not have given LDN a year's trial, one may be using a medication that works against LDN(like interferons, chemo's, etc), taking LDN at the wrong time. These are the main reasons I can think of.

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> I know you were writing this in response to anothre comment but I wanted to

thank you for writing thsiinsuch an understandabld and concise way.Sinc I

have just started the LDN myself, I really needed to hear this and now I

know I will need to be patient nad wait. SO far I would not say my symptoms are

better or worse but I am tapering off of prednisone right now and tha tin itself

wil laffect me in someways so until I am clear of the steroids I cant even begin

to g iuess what the LDN is doing and I understand this now.Then I will give it

more time after that as well. I am SO THANKFUL that LDN is an old drug and NOT

EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!

> Nola

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Nola,

I'm glad I didn't talk over your head. I was hoping to make that as simple and

understandable as possible.