6 days on LDN for Crohn's

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Dr. McCandless prescribed 3 mg. dose LDN transdermal cream for me

because of my low weight, and I have been using it for 6 days now. I

had reduced my prednisone to 10 mg. before beginning the LDN but have

since had increased Crohn's symptoms of gas, some visible bleeding,

and diarrhea. I sent an e-mail to Dr. McCadless the other evening at

about 8 o'clock and was so favorably impressed when she answered me

about 10 minutes later. She said it would be ok to increase the dose

of LDN a bit as well as the prednisone just short term until the LDN

kicks in. I believe the bleeding was the result of the taper down to

10 mg. of prednisone. I've been involved with this very, very long

lasting flare for the past 9 months and had been taking quite a bit

of prednisone as well as two IV's of Remicade back in March. I

refused further IV's of Remicade once I had learned about LDN.

Did you hear on the news that the FDA is researching Remicade because

of increased instances of cancer? I know of a young man who took

Remicade for a year and was doing ok so the doctor took him off it

and in less than a month he became very symptomatic and may require

surgery now. All the risks of taking Remicade and you end up with no

long-term healing but instead something like that! LDN sounds much

more reasonable to me.

Have others had similar experience of taking time to achieve results

with LDN? I know some had said they felt better within a day or two,

but I really didn't think that was possible for me as I have suffered

from malnutrition and side effects of so much prednisone for so long.

Keeping my fingers crossed and using positive thinking.