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Originally Posted by Aarcyn
As you read, he is not familiar with the drug at all.
All the websites referenced seem to center around one doctor or Skip's pharmacy. Even the .org (which is for me, more reliable) said that LDN had not been tested for MS.
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Thanks, Aarcyn.
What you've said is exactly the reason I made my prior comments to Erin:
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Originally Posted by lady_express_44
Erin,
The main reason that doctors don't rx this is that they don't know anything about it. They are too lazy to do their own reading, or they would find out just how harmless this small dosage of drug (with an extremely long and safe history) is.
... you will (need to) be very informed and prepared by the time you visit your doc. That is the key to getting the rx.
Cherie
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Neurologists and MS Specialists do not normally have any experience with this drug . . . so I appreciate that this may be treading on unfamiliar territory for them. I have noticed that GP's are much more likely to rx LDN, probably because many have previously prescribed it for other purposes, at a MUCH higher dosage.
Naltrexone is just a minute dosage of a very well-established medication. That they haven't done many large trials on the toxicity of LOW DOSE Naltrexone is probably a moot point. That would be like saying that Ibuprophen has been safely trialed at 5X it's recommended dosage . . . BUT it has not been trialed at 1% of that dosage (so we don't know it's toxicity at that level
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I agree there isn't any scientific proof of LDN's efficacy for MS. There are a lot of (especially symptom) meds we take that have never been trialled for MS specifically. Only anecdotal evidence exists that they
may work for us, but that doesn't stop our doctors from prescribing them when we ask though.
. . .
Cherie
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