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I have been taking LDN (4.5 mg) since December. After 2 months, I found relief from my shortness of breath and lack of energy, enabling me to walk distances that I was not able to walk for the last 4 years. (Covid in August 2020) I do find that after walking, my legs are achy at night. Extra Strength Tylenol helps. I have been taking 50 mg of Imipramine for Fibromyalgia since before Covid. At one point, I weaned myself off it because there were studies that said it was not good for Long Covid - big mistake!! I am back on it and feel much better. With LDN, I still have problems with dizziness and balance. I do have POTS, IBS, etc. I'm not all better but am glad I walk distances again!!
Hope that helps!!
I am on naltrexone at 2 mg a day, and I can second that it has helped with the fibromyalgia-like muscle aches and pains that Long Covid has caused me, but it hasn’t really helped me with much else (fatigue, autonomic dysfunction, chest pain, headaches). It’s a good tool for the LC treatment toolkit, but it is not a panacea for all LC symptoms in my experience.
I’m interested re. your last comment about ’compounded thyroid med’ suggesting your are hypothyroid and likely Hashimoto’s too? A Dr.Lowe ( now dead) who specialised in hypothyroidism believed under medicated T3 lead to fibromyalgia…but his protocol did not work for me. I have both thyroid ailments , plus fibromyalgia (and type 3c diabetes from septic shock/ acute pancreatitis), and had LC nearly 5 years. I tried LDN and cannabis oil before LC but no obvious change to pain/ fatigue, now LC has made the fibromyalgia worse and I’ve got dysautonomia ( postural hypotension with syncope, but high HR too), no sense of smell.…tried a wide range of LC supplements/ drugs without improvement and currently trying ‘low and slow’ vagus nerve stimulation device. I’ll give the vTENS device a good trial, and if no improvement will try LDN again. It’s so slow to try to do one hopefully improvement one at a time!