RE: reply to questions about symptons so far and DX

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Don't know if I am replying correctly here so please excuse my ignorance about posting etiquette and not knowing how to go about this. Don't want to be rude, it's mostly a brainfog issue for me. But, to answer a couple questions re: my comments on dosage and sleep; I would have had to say my diagnosis was RA until last week when I finally found a doc to test for Lyme and got a positive result back. He also diagnosed me with Hashimoto's and nodules, goiter on thyroid. Haven't been treated for thyroid yet, still doing more tests. I guess I will have to adjust the LDN dose when I start thyroid tx. I have had severe arthritis symptoms for two years - hands, knees, shoulders, feet. LDN still doesn't seem to help with the joint pain and

stiffness, and in fact seems to make it worse but I'm trying to hang in there. What it does help with is cognitive, emotional, constipation, bladder and sleep issues when I get the dosage right. It's hard to say for sure sometimes, since the cognitive and emotional issues are so up and down - thank you Lyme- but I know it's helping. I just have to be patient and give it more time. Night before last I went up to 4.5. Hardly slept at all and had the hallucinations again. (Keep dreaming while awake), so last night I went back down to 3.0 and slept like a baby and only got up once to trudge to the bathroom. Think I'll stay at 3.0 for a while. I'm still waiting for more blood work results and am sure that ALL my hormones are terribly screwed up. Thanks for the questions and interest. Before getting back on LDN I couldn't even bring myself to post comments or questions due to brain fog and some kind of

emotional paralysis or whatever it was. The LDN is helping with that and that is major! Ardi