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(thought this was a very interesting use for LDN, even though it is administered via IV route)
JAMA. 2000 Jan 19;283(3):367-72. Methylnaltrexone for reversal of constipation due to chronic methadone use: a randomized controlled trial. Yuan CS, Foss JF, O'Connor M, Osinski J, Karrison T, Moss J, Roizen MF. Source Constipation is the most common chronic adverse effect of opioid pain medications in patients who require long-term opioid administration, such as patients with advanced cancer, but conventional measures for ameliorating constipation often are insufficient. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of methylnaltrexone, the first peripheral opioid receptor antagonist, in treating chronic methadone-induced constipation. DESIGN: Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial conducted between May 1997 and December 1998. SETTING: Clinical research center of a university hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-two subjects (9 men and 13 women; mean [SD] age, 43.2 [5.5] years) enrolled in a methadone maintenance program and having methadone-induced constipation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Laxation response, oral-cecal transit time, and central opioid withdrawal symptoms were compared between the 2 groups. RESULTS: The 11 subjects in the placebo group showed no laxation response, and all 11 subjects in the intervention group had laxation response after intravenous methylnaltrexone administration (P<.001). The oral-cecal transit times at baseline for subjects in the methylnaltrexone and placebo groups averaged 132.3 and 126.8 minutes, respectively. The average (SD) change in the methylnaltrexone-treated group was -77.7 (37.2) minutes, significantly greater than the average change in the placebo group (-1.4 [12.0] minutes; P<.001). No opioid withdrawal was observed in any subject, and no significant adverse effects were reported by the subjects during the study. CONCLUSIONS: Our data demonstrate that intravenous methylnaltrexone can induce laxation and reverse slowing of oral cecal-transit time in subjects taking high opioid dosages. Low-dosage methylnaltrexone may have clinical utility in managing opioid-induced constipation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10647800
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To test LDN myself I took it for 3 months. It did nothing but make me drowsey at night, which I do not need because I sleep like a baby already. My guess is that people who experience a benefit are simply getting better sleep, which can be achieved in other ways.
Since there is NO evidence that LDN works to relieve symptoms, other than anecdotal, and even that is sparse, I have discontinued it. I am taking 25/100 Carb/L-dopa 4 times a day and having a difficult time with dyskenisia daily. |
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