Weird Reaction to LDN

Good morning everyone, i have a question about ldn. My functional medicine doctor prescribed ldn 4.5mg to be taken at bedtime. My sleep is so precious right now and I am finally sleeping better. Therefore I decided to try my first dose in the aftermoon yesterday since I have read here and other places that ldn can interrupt sleep. So, yesterday afternoon I cut the 4.5 in half (I am super sensitive to everything). Took it at 3 pm. By 5 pm I was having an increase in many symptoms: anxiety (really bad), irritability, digestive upset, fatigue, restlessness, brain fog. This continued until bedtime. Went to sleep and slept unusually well, from 10 to 6, but with super vivid and somewhat disturbing/fear inducing dreams. This morning, woke up with vicious anxiety, fear, and exhaustion despite sleeping about 8 hours. Ugh. Does anyone think this is just a terrible reaction to the ldn? I think I should not try it again. I am anxiously awaiting my first appointment with a well known llmd (been on wait list for 6 months). Thinking I should hold off until meeting with him in 3 weeks. But still want to know if anyone thinks this bad episode was from ldn. Thank you!

i see LDN being prescribed by LLMD's at 4 or 5mg per day as if they think its such a low dose they don't think it will have any adverse effects

this is a little strange - as it is quite well known that for people with Lyme and or CFS or fibromyalgia or thyroid issues or auto-immune conditions ( so a large proportion of the people who use it ) it can case very strong reactions at even a fraction of this dose

because of this i started at 0.5mg / day and worked up slowly - i noticed herx at every 0.5mg step and its taken me around a year to get to around 3.3mg / day and still have to increase in very small steps or i get disturbed sleep, fatigue, all over pains and other symptoms

2.25 way too much. .5 better to start and work up, more isn’t necessarily better with this one. If it keeps causing insomnia take it in the morning

I started with drops not mg's. Literally like a drop. I take 3.6 mg now. Its crazy how Dr's prescribe it starting at .5 mg increasing by .5 mg. You can have the compounding pharmacy make it with water. So you can take it by the drop.

I'm with the others and am right there with Garzie. I started at half a MG and worked up to 1 mg before having weird dreams. I've stopped and will try again when other symptoms slow down.