Re: [TMIC] low dose naltrexone

[Larry Throne]

I think that is the point the doctor & pharmacist had about LDN, how can it help with pain management? It blocks the receptors in the brain that make even our own natural pain killers not be effective. We do get a lot (about 25% of the patients on my unit on a given day are there to be detoxed from hydrocodone) of people on my unit that have been Rx narcotics for pain management but have lost the ability to take them without abusing them. Or for one reason or another they have decided to find other avenues to deal with thier pain. I I took several narcotics for pain management early in my experience with TM but recognized a severe dependence on them as well as with valium for spasisity. I really don't think I over used them at any time but I was so intoxicated all the time and I couldn't function at a quality level. Thank God for neurontin, topamax, baclofen and Doctors that are willing to search for other drugs that can help with pain management. I haven't had a narcotic in 17 years. Today I take low dose baclofen, 120mg of cymbalta daily to help me with my neuropathic pain. I was just talking with my PCP last week discussing the benefits of the cymbalta. I really don't think it reduces the pain, it just helps me live with it on a daily basis. I have to admit there are days when my back pain takes my breath, and my legs just throb and burn. But overall, most of the time it has become tolerable and I don't have to live with the lethergy & brain numbing of the narcotics and benzodiazipine.  So, don't think I understand either about taking LDN for pain management. But, it never ceases to amaze me how the right cocktail of medications can help indvidual people cope with a multitude of problems. I agree with Frank who suggest THC is helpful for pain management and spasm control but I can't take due to policy at work and it's illegal. I have attemped to talk several doctors in to Rx Marinol but to no avail.

Larry in Oklahoma where my one of my dogs just started giving birth to puppies. Better go help!

Larry Throne, MSW

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Subject: Re: [TMIC] low dose naltrexone
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 21:26:10 EST

Hi Larry,   Having just read your email regarding low dose naltrexone, I am left with a couple of questions...   I am a T3-T8 paraplegic with no movement, no sensation and no Bor B control.  I am thankful that I have my arms, hands, shoulders and whatever brain I have left after TM did its work on me.   Umm...Speaking as one with lots of nerve damage causing lots of neuropathic pain, I have been prescribed opoid drugs for pain control since day one.  If one needs to take the drugs for pain control, why would one want to take the good effects of the opoids away?  Why would one want to take the "ldn"?   I understand its use for drug addicts or alcoholics, but not its use as a pain controller.  Or am I confusing the issue?   While I am most assuredly dependent upon opoid drugs for comfort enough to get me through the days and nights, I am not an addict in the sense of the word as most people use it.   I do not understand of what help "ldn" would be for someone with needs such as mine.  Can you help set me straight?   Jude, in Michigan

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