I'll try to answer some of the questions here, have mercy if my grammar is missing or words is mispelled...;-)
First; low dose naltrexone is made of a medication called naltrexone, in which is given to other patient groups than the auto immune group, but in far bigger doses than ours (to heroin addicts or people with alcohol abuse problems) it's given in doses from 50.0 mg a day and up to 300.0 mg a day.
Dr. Bihary, a nevrolog in New York (read www.ldninfo.org to learn about
how he discovered this medication back in the 80'), gave these big doses to a group of heroin addicts who had got HIV. He found
that his HIV patients never got any colds or even AIDS, which turned out every HIV patient got around 1980. He found papers done by dr. Ian Zagon, and cooperated with phd. Zagon (who now has been one of the team making the phase II trial with Phd. dr. Jill Smith). Dr. Zagon did rodent trials with LDN. They found that the lower dose they tried, some dieseases responded. When they got as low as 4.5 mg the naltrexone hit in and Dr. Bihary wrote rx's to some patients with MS, amongst them a young woman, a friend of his daughter. She had just got her MS diagnose at a hospital, and turned to Dr. Bihary for help. Since she was having just a few symptoms back then, he gave her 4.5 mg in which she used for 15 years. She didn't get any further symptoms at all, and her disease stopped in progression. She thought she was misdiagnosed from the hospital and stopped using LDN. All her symptoms returned.
This medication is a result of a few doctors in New York daring to think outside the box. After 20 - 30 years this Naltrexone has gotten more and more known in different patient groups, and after internet the groups of patients is spreading the word by telling other patients about
this medicine. Someone said, this is a gras rooth medicine, got wellknown because the patients have heard about
it from other patients.
It's legal to get a rx of it. In big doses as 100 mg or more they have found that the only serious side effects is that the liver values is increased for a few weeks, and then back to normal again.
At such small doses as 1.5 - 4.5 mg you need to buy them compounded. There are an increased number of pharmacy's knowing how to compound it correctly, and in 2010 LDN got well known in bigger patient groups. At www.youtube.com you will find pharmacy doctors explaining what compoundings to ask for.
All autoimmune diseases, asthma, diabetes, some cancers, even kids with autism, persons with alzheimers, HIV patiens, hepatit patients and much more groups are benefiting from it.
Worth to know:
LDN is working on a highly individual level, your immune system gets better and better, while on it, and it could use up to a year to get better. You could use maintanance Crohns medicines while using LDN. Don't stop using your medication if it's compatible with LDN. Your doctor will tell you.
While naltrexone has become generic, means that every med company are able to produce it, and it's not big money to produce it, no one is interested in doing research on it, since there is no profit.
LDN needs to be taken as long as you have your disease. It's no need to stop it, it's keeping your immunesystem on top, your endorphins are on a good and high level and it's may keep other Crohns related diseases away. Doctors that know LDN is using it to prevent themselves for serious diseases, since the immune system is getting so strong.
Please, go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p5nhzP2OaI
to watch dr. Chris Steele a UK doctor talk about
LDN, you will find a lot more videos on LDN and other diseases than ours.
Yes, LDN could be used for ulcerative colitis. you could search in yahoo groups for naltrexone, there is a group supporting everyone with IBS or/IBD, inflammated bowel diseases.
why not read all the different diseases it's able to use LDN at:
www.ldndatabase.com
Post Edited (BeeSting) : 1/25/2011 9:04:36 AM (GMT-7)