Re: need help in getting from 4.5 mg back to 3 mg

[Guest guest]

FOLKS, PLEASE READ THIS POST RE LDN & NERVOUSNESS, IT MAY HELP HUNDREDS ON THIS

FORUM!

Hi,

Dr McCandless of " Children With Starving Brains " who moderates the

LDN & Autism forum says that 30% of the population have some degree of

celiac disease, which is an allergy to gluten.

I had exactly the same response to LDN: nervousness, anxiety. She explained to

me on the forum that gluten, to one allergic to it, gets only half digested in

the gut, the large undigested polypeptide molecules affect the brain as opiods.

This means the person is on either a " high " or withdrawal all their life, from

wheat, rye and barley products, possibly oats.

She suggested trying a gluten free diet (General Mills corn chex and rice chex

are gluten free), you can get bread in the health food section made from millet

or rice, and there is pasta regularly available from rice. Read labels for

starch from wheat (e.g. tomato paste, soups as a thickener). Make potato

pancakes (potato and egg in a blender plus salt).

I cut out gluten and on the third day I felt great! The naltrexone was

interrupting my " high " from gluten opiods and making me nervous. No problem

with it now and VERY happy to make these small dietary adjustments. Now I can

call it my " happy pill " like all those autistic kids who are taking it, and my

" feel great in the morning when I wake up pill " like the adults.

Dr JM will not put an autistic child on LDN until they have been on a gluten

free and casein free (read: milk products) for a few months. She advocated to

me cutting out dairy as well at some point, but I haven't done that and don't

feel the need. Gluten was the ticket.

Hope this is helpful to many. I've read a lot of posts here over time about

nervousness and feeling like having drunk several cups of coffee in response to

LDN. I was thrilled to have the help of LDN to discover an underlying problem

that was causing mood swings, maybe all my life. BTW, it takes on average 7

years to diagnose Celiac disease (the full blown allergy) because there are so

many symptoms that present which point in other various directions.

Best,

Mike

>

> Hi,

>

> I started taking LDN at 3mg for two months and then I upped it to 4.5 12 days

ago. The 4.5 was making me too sick, though, so I moved it back to 3 mg last

night. Today I'm not feeling sick, but I'm feeling jumpy as if I had too much

coffee. Would I be better off to skip a night or two to get me back in balance

or should I just keep taking 3mg every night.

>

> Thanks,

>

> son

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks Mike, from what I’ve learnt (the hard way of course) and

been reading, is that anyone who suffers from any autoimmune condition should

follow a gluten free diet. I don’t cut out dairy from my own personal diet,

and perhaps should, but so far so good without the gluten.

Thanks,

Jayne Crocker

www.LDNNow.com

Important! Please sign our LDN petition to the European

Parliament by clicking here

tel: +44 (0) 7877 492 669

Dr Steele MBE, talking about LDN

LDNNow, a patient and friend led organisation (so not a charity)

with no funding and no affiliation to any company or organisation, but rather a

group of concerned individuals focussed on improving the health of those who

suffer from the many diseases and conditions that LDN treats.

From: low dose naltrexone

[mailto:low dose naltrexone ] On Behalf Of bwana_amefufuka

Sent: 17 February 2010 16:38

low dose naltrexone

Subject: [low dose naltrexone] Re: need help in getting from 4.5 mg back

to 3 mg

FOLKS, PLEASE READ THIS POST RE LDN &

NERVOUSNESS, IT MAY HELP HUNDREDS ON THIS FORUM!

Hi,

Dr McCandless of " Children With Starving Brains " who

moderates the LDN & Autism forum says that 30% of the population have

some degree of celiac disease, which is an allergy to gluten.

I had exactly the same response to LDN: nervousness, anxiety. She explained to

me on the forum that gluten, to one allergic to it, gets only half digested in

the gut, the large undigested polypeptide molecules affect the brain as opiods.

This means the person is on either a " high " or withdrawal all their

life, from wheat, rye and barley products, possibly oats.

She suggested trying a gluten free diet (General Mills corn chex and rice chex

are gluten free), you can get bread in the health food section made from millet

or rice, and there is pasta regularly available from rice. Read labels for

starch from wheat (e.g. tomato paste, soups as a thickener). Make potato

pancakes (potato and egg in a blender plus salt).

I cut out gluten and on the third day I felt great! The naltrexone was

interrupting my " high " from gluten opiods and making me nervous. No

problem with it now and VERY happy to make these small dietary adjustments. Now

I can call it my " happy pill " like all those autistic kids who are

taking it, and my " feel great in the morning when I wake up pill "

like the adults.

Dr JM will not put an autistic child on LDN until they have been on a gluten

free and casein free (read: milk products) for a few months. She advocated to

me cutting out dairy as well at some point, but I haven't done that and don't

feel the need. Gluten was the ticket.

Hope this is helpful to many. I've read a lot of posts here over time about

nervousness and feeling like having drunk several cups of coffee in response to

LDN. I was thrilled to have the help of LDN to discover an underlying problem

that was causing mood swings, maybe all my life. BTW, it takes on average 7

years to diagnose Celiac disease (the full blown allergy) because there are so

many symptoms that present which point in other various directions.

Best,

Mike

>

> Hi,

>

> I started taking LDN at 3mg for two months and then I upped it to 4.5 12

days ago. The 4.5 was making me too sick, though, so I moved it back to 3 mg

last night. Today I'm not feeling sick, but I'm feeling jumpy as if I had too

much coffee. Would I be better off to skip a night or two to get me back in

balance or should I just keep taking 3mg every night.

>

> Thanks,

>

> son

>