LDN - might try this from a new functional doctor

After my LLMD, I have seen a variety of doctors that are similar to functional MDs. Some don’t even care for a “label”, some go buy different labels.

Whatever the case, what they all had in common after my LLMD, was I got appointments with these types of doctors who still accepted medical insurance. I sought help and advice from them for my other variety of ailments, which seems to from autoimmune and under immune conditions.

Problem was once health insurance figured out what these doctors were doing that it was not standard useless medical care, They dropped coverage after a couple years.

Convincing conventional medical family doctors to try something out of the ordinary, when I was successful, I could only accomplish this one item per appointment, that’s all their brains could mentally tolerate.

So now, after about three years, I finally had an appointment with one of these functional type doctors again that takes medical insurance, and it was a virtual appointment.

I mention past Lyme disease, but that’s not what these appointments are for.

So I don’t know how well this will work out, but she seems to have pretty deep interest and knowledge in thyroid, and all around general autoimmune conditions and gut health. So this could be good.

First doctor ever met who has experience in and wants to try low-dose Nex..(whatever it’s called lol )on me.

One thing I don’t like about this, as it will interfere with my thyroid medicine levels, which is always a pain in the neck to adjust.

Anyone on LDN here who can give me any advice or tell me what your experience was with it?

As far as my Hashimoto thyroid goes, she was very well aware of the shortcomings of endocrinologist! What a relief this is to hear for once in my life! I’ve may have actually met a doctor, who actually understands thyroid conditions better than I do which sounds ridiculous to say, but it’s true that so many of them, all of them to my extent, so far have limited knowledge, and just go by the book. And that so-called book of thyroid treatment probably only works for 50% of the patients.

I've tried it several times. Every time I have tried it I never noticed anything of note. I had read how some people don't see results until 6+ months so I'm trying it again. I finished my first 3 month supply bottle a few weeks ago and now am working on bottle 2. Again, I haven't noticed anything of note, but, I'm going to give it ample time this go around.

Despite a ton of antimicrobial treatment I still feel that my issues are related to persistent infection so I'm not expecting great results from the LDN, but, I've been so severely sick for so long I'm fine with throwing the kitchen sink at my issues.

Link from the doctor,

“How it works:
Many diseases are expressions of a malfunction of the immune system. The immune system is regulated by endorphins, which have primary action on our opioid receptors. Blocking the opioid receptors briefly using naltrexone stimulates your body to make more endorphins, which can then act in an immunomodulatory way to correct immune system malfunction and reduce inflammation. “

Later on mentions may cause vivid, dreams, or, insomnia, in such cases that means the starting dose was too high

astro -

on the LDN research trust website that girlie linked to it gives this list of things under the heading of "infections"

note - the immune deficiencies that it claims to treat

normally the site is fairly well evidence based - so i imagine there is some study or other that support this use - might be worth a search for it

Chagas disease
Complement component 2 deficiency – increase risk of infections
COVID
Coxsackie myocarditis
Herpes
Herpes Zoster (Shingles)
HIV/AIDS
Hypogammaglobulinemia – leads to infections
Long COVID
Lyme Disease
PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections)
Sydenham chorea

i understand astro - i am having to work to get stuff done in the week off antibiotics at the moment - as once they kick in I tend to fall behind with stuff

hope its brings some useful benefits for you

the whole neuro-endocrine system connection is interesting