I did not confuse your post with someone else's. Low Dose Naltrexone is not manufactured by large scale commercial pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. The only ways to obtain it are via a compounding pharmacy or DIY. Dr. Bihari, the leading LDN doctor, recommends the latter method.
I am glad we are having this discussion, because it highlights the issue of access. I am in extraordinary pain all the time, because the legion of doctors I have seen will not give me oral (I recently was given neurontin) or topical pain meds. I am fearful of driving lest I brake hard and damage my CRPS foot and ankle. I can barely walk 40' feet on crutches. I cannot use stairs. I have to have a heating pad and a heated blanket on my foot or it gets icy cold. Socks make it worse, because they act as cold insulators. In order to follow Dr. Bihari's protocol in the traditional manner a person would first have to find an LDN doctor, then go the doctor, convince said doctor to prescribe naltrexone instead of LDN. This process requires incredible wherewithal that most sufferers do not have. I for one do not have it.
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Originally Posted by Neurochic
As I said, its your choice to take these risks with what you are buying on the internet and then putting into your body.
I didn't mention compounding pharmacies so I think maybe you have confused my post with someone else's. Compounding pharmacies are not the same as the large scale, commercial pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities run by drug companies who would normally manufacture and supply the type of medication you had been hoping to be prescribed.
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