LDN

[debbiegreco]

I am in the US and looking for a way to get Low Dose Naltrexone. My Dr doesn't prescribe it and I have been feeling unwell with many symptoms since he lowered my levo in January from 100 mcg to 50 based on just TSH. A friend suggested LDN might heelp

[shaws Administrator]

First of all a doctor should definitely not reduce a patient's dose according to the TSH. He is another who should not hold a licence which enables him to treat hypothyroid patients. He is putting your health in danger.

You need a change of doctor or treat yourself if you cannot get a decent doctor. We can source thyroid hormones ourself. Most on this forum self-medicate and are feeling much better.

You need an adequate dose of essential thyroid hormones. We die if we do not - eventually - as we cannot survive on 50mcg which is ridiculous and only a starting amount. Your health is being ruined.

An excerpt:

This harmful system within the endocrinology specialty has alienated countless hypothyroid patients who now hold the specialty in contempt. I believe this is a good dynamic because of a phenomenon in the 20th century history of medicine in the U.S. That phenomenon was that major changes in medicine came about because enough patients demanded them and made them profitable. The patients sought out and paid clinicians who provided services they wanted. Many of those patients wanted the services because they, unlike the clinicians, knew of scientific evidence that the services could benefit them. This market demand was a major influence on the emergence of sports medicine, nutritional medicine, integrative medicine, and manual manipulation by medical practitioners. Scientific evidence favoring these methods had long existed. It received little-to-no attention by physicians, however, until patients made it profitable for them to provide the services warranted by the evidence.

[shaws Administrator]

Whatever you took for thyroid hormone replacement. You can put up a fresh post with the heading of what you were taking and ask for a private message to be sent to you of where to source. No information is posted on the open forum.

Your post will be closed just in case someone does by mistake but you will be sent private messages.

LDN wont be as much help to you as an optimum amount of thyroid hormones. I shall also send you some information of how to do it yourself. There's no need to be nervouse as you can do better than the doctor who has reduced your dose due to the TSH alone.

Read this link, the second half in particular.

hormonerestoration.com/