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Old 06-20-2011, 02:34 PM
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I did some reading on the site Dej posted.

From the section on How To Talk To Your Doctor, I read this objection that we might encounter:


“You’re already on [Avonex, BetaSeron, Rebif, or another drug]. LDN might
conflict.”

Your doctor might be right about this one. Most of the standard MS drugs (with the
probable exception of Copaxone), are immunosuppressant and thus tend to counteract
the beneficial effects of LDN. Depending on your general health, if you ask your
neurologist to take you off the standard MS drugs to try LDN, you might be facing an
uphill battle. Don’t give up. It just means that you have more homework to do. Tell
your doctor you will look into it and find out for sure.

It seems like their answer does mean that there is homework to do, but I don't know where to look into it, if they don't give answers here.

I'm on Copaxone. I guess that I usually thought that LDN was for people who were not on an ABCR for some reason. This doesn't clarify for me. Does anyone know the answer to that?

~ Faith
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Symptoms since 01/2002; Dx with MS: 10/2003; Back in limbo, then re-dx w/ MS: 07/2008
Betaseron 11/2003-08/2008; Copaxone 09/2008-present
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