Not sure why I'm being given LDN

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Hi All,

My doctor has prescribed me LDN, but he won't tell me why. I think he knows I'm

in a mad mad love affair with pubmed and google scholar!

So my problem is that I took a Fluoroquinolone drug (Cipro/Levaquin/Avelox are

the most common) about 7 months ago. I developed tendinitis while on it even

though I wasn't exercising, and my doctor said to just ignore it and keep taking

the drug.

Since I got off, I have developed bilateral tendinopathy in every limb of my

body. In fact, for the first 3 months off the drug, every few days brought a

new tendinopathy, joint pain, stiff joint that no longer moved, eye problem or

other. By the end of 3 months, I had 44 tendinopathies, 6 arthritic joint

pains, 4 joints that didn't move, and all kinds of other problems.

I joined a support group, and we found that for at least 22% of the members,

some of our symptoms are made worse by soy, specifically tendon pain, joint

pain, and nerve burning/buzzing/just painful pain. I'm lucky because I don't

have the nerve pain.

But within hours of eating soy, my tendon pain increases, growing to a plateau

by the beginning of the 3rd day. With continued exposure, my joint pain

increases on the 3rd and 4th days. When I stop soy, my tendon pain drops off

after two days. By joint pain hangs on for those two days, then fades

throughout days 3-5.

I also have had low level diarrhea for the first 3 months, and strange bowel

patterns for the entire time.

Now, I'm aware that joint pain is common in Irritable Bowel disease, Crohn's,

Ulcerative Colitis, and Celiac.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538350

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/celiac-disease/DS00319/DSECTION=symptoms

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3876079

And so on...

I did tell the doctor that I was scared of medications given that the last one

has left me disabled for months.

He wants me gluten-free and casein-free the entire time.

So I was wondering, if there is any reason that anyone can think of why I might

have been given LDN?

Since he initially notified me he was going to write the prescription but before

he actually did, I also found that gluten affects my joint pain. If I stop

eating gluten for 16 hours, my joint pain drops off a few levels. When I return

to eating gluten after a week or more off, my joint pain slowly climbs back over

a 10 day period.

Would soy increasing tendon or joint pain be a symptom of Crohn's or IBD or

Ulcerative Colitis?

-Bruce