Help with LDN and NDT

[Sboop]

I started taking LDN last October for Hashimotos and Fibromyalgia and recurring pain. I also take Natural Dessicated Thyroid. After going up to 3 mg LDN I have unfeeling of food stuck in my throat after eating.

[radd]

Sboop,

Welcome to our forum,

You are reaching the higher recommended doses of LDN, some prefer it lower. Although many find 3mg is favourable maybe you've overstepped your sweet spot. A feeling of fullness in the throat is often attributed to more thyroid gland activity and could be a Hashi attack. Do you take LDN at bedtime?

[Sboop in reply to radd]

Yes at bedtime and I had up dosed to 4mg which made symptoms worse. Now I stopped LDN for 3 nights but not much relief. I will get my tests done next week. Thanks for your help. I suspect you are right and that i need to lower both LDN and thyroid meds.

[Swissgirl]

Hi Sboop. Welcome. I am also on NDT ( Armour) 3 and 1/8 grain ( split in 3 doses per day) and LDN 1mg ( at bedtime). The LDN has helped with joint and arthritis pain, but I can’t raise it more as I get hyper symptoms and I don’t want to fiddle around with the Armour dose anymore as it’s taken me a year to stabilize again. I started with LDN 0.5mg and managed to raise after a few months to 1mg. I have read that usual dose can be up to 4.5mg. As Radd wrote, the throat symptoms could be due to a Hashis flare. Do you have any other symptoms?

What are your most recent fT3, fT4 and TSH results?

What about Vit D, ferritin, B12 and folate results?

Are you on a GF diet? My joint, muscle and digestive symptoms and inflammation in general really improved on GF diet ( I don’t have Coelics but am gluten intolerant) and also subsequently Dairy, Egg and Soy- free diet.

[Sboop in reply to Swissgirl]

Thank you. Your situation sounds similar to mine. I take ERFA Thyroid (Canadian NDT) and have been stable for a few years on a split dose. I started taking LDN for fibromyalgia and perhaps should have stayed at 2 as I now think that is my sweet spot although I was still having flares. I am gluten free but still not on dairy, egg and soy free diet. I am gluten intolerance as well. Thanks so much for Your response.

[Sboop in reply to Sboop]

I am getting my testing done next week.

[jgelliss]

Though I don't know much about LDN . But feeling stuck in the throat for me is a hypo symptom. You might need to raise your thyroid meds when on LDN to compensate. Best wishes.

[Dancing_dragonfly]

I have taken Armour for many years and as of 2017, 4.5 mg of LDN. I have never felt that feeling in my throat in relation to the LDN. I do take breaks from it occasionally and re-titrate back up to my 4.5 mg dose. Thinking it’s either hypo symptoms or other reasons. Not sure it’s the LDN.