Archive for April, 2007

Spreading the word

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Spent the easter holiday in Hawaii with my father and his wife. He’s 82 yrs. old and his wife, Mary, is 75. She’s had rheumatoid arthritis for many years now, and rarely gets through the night without pain and stiffness.

On April 4th, I suggested she try LDN for her arthritis and gave her a 4.5mg tablet from my prescription. She continued taking it nightly for the next 7 nights. The 2nd day after starting LDN, she did not experience the usual arthritic pain she was accustomed to, and some other minor ailments she had also disappeared.

She returned to her home in Arizona on April 11th with an 8-day supply from my prescription, and went to her GP for her own prescription on the 17th. He was reluctant to give one, but she persisted and he wrote the prescription on the 18th. An order was placed with Skip’s Pharmacy in Boca Raton, Florida which was shipped out and arrived in Arizona on 21st. 

Before her own prescription arrived, the 8-day supply I gave her on the 11th, ran out and for 2 days she was without LDN. By the 2nd day, the pain and stiffness from her arthritis had returned, so she was glad to get back on LDN on the 21st. The return of the arthritis after only a short time off LDN, is proof positive to her that the LDN works.

Now she’s convinced of the benefits of LDN for arthritis and living in a retirement community with it’s large population of seniors, she’s become an advocate for LDN and is now Spreading the Word. 

Month 2 Status

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

April 12, 2007 was the second month that I’ve now been on LDN. By this time, my oncologist was certain that I would be experiencing serious effects from the rapidly growing cervical cancer metastasis to my lungs. PET scans taken prior to beginning LDN showed a doubling in size of the lung nodules about every 4 weeks. I’m delaying a follow-up scan until I’ve been on LDN for at least 3 months, since reality is that if LDN isn’t working, there are no alternatives anyway. The 2nd line protocol would be taxol/carboplatin which has zero record of success for my cell type.

My previous LDN prescribing doctor, Dr. Bernard Bihari (discoverer of the benefits of low dose naltrexone), has retired from his medical practice and I’ve now moved to one of his referrals, Dr. Martin Ehrlich in New York. I had telephone consultation with him on March 30th when he accepted me as his patient. I’ve now gotten the first prescription from him for my next 6-month supply.