Low dose naltrexone for Post-Covid Recovery experiences?
Does anyone have experiences with low dose naltrexone for long Covid symptoms of significant brain fog, post-exertional fatigue, joint pain, muscle pain - inflammation, insomnia. A few studies in late 2022 indicate that low dose naltrexone 4.5 mg is helpful . Do you know of a specific doctor in NYC who prescribes it?
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Hello All,
I take LDN for sleep. I do not necessarily sleep longer but I have found I sleep soundly when I actually sleep. This has helped me have a bit more energy during the day. I am still tired, but there is definitely some improvement.
Small improvement. Not enough to balance out of pocket costs.
Q10 did not do anything for me, but LDN was life saving. My health was in free fall when I started it and right away the rapid decline stopped and then I got modest improvement. I stared at 0.5mg and slowly worked up. 4mg was too much, so now I take 3mg.
For those of us getting better, recovering, cured (however you want to say it) I assert that there is no way to point to any one thing that caused us to no longer experience Long COVID symptoms. Since November '21 (when a booster triggered my symptoms), visiting many local Charleston SC Medical Professionals and then in August '23 finally (and gratefully) getting to Mayo Rochester the plan I am executing is made up of over a dozen 'things'. Prescriptions, supplements, measured exercise, coaching, reading, acupuncture, cranial sacral - point blank it is impossible to point to any one thing that has caused my symptoms to break up and for me to be on a steady 'feel better' trend. Maybe it was just the passage of time? Who knows? I with there was one pill, one thing, a rifle shot instead of shotgun blast so to speak that I could say "that was it". I am simply grateful to all the people who helped me along the way to understand, have a working theory and develop a plan, and to my commitment to executing the plan. I feel better and look forward to Long COVID being in my rearview mirror. I wish you all the best.
who developed the plan--- my wife needs one!!!
You said your symptoms were "triggered" by a booster. Did you have symptoms right after covid that went away and then the same symptoms started back up again after the booster? Or were they different?
I received my booster in November '21 and within a couple of weeks I began to experience symptoms. My Wife and I didn't test positive for COVID until July '22 and that was our first and only time we had tested positive for COVID. So, booster first, began experiencing symptoms and then much later in July tested positive for COVID and we experienced light cold symptoms. Mayo clinic stated they have had many people report the same - Long COVID caused by the vaccine.
At my urging, my husband tried a course of using LDN. I used a compounding pharmacy for a liquid Rx of 1 mg/ml so I could adjust dosage to 0.5 ml steps without pill splitting. I thought I saw minor improvement in brain fog at 2mg/ day. As I tried 2.5 mg/day for a week and started 3 mg, my husband started experiencing vivid dreams and hallucinations. I had split the dosages of 2.5 to 2 at lunch and 0.5 mg at dinner. As he started the side effects, I moved the total dose to all at lunch. The side effects so disturbed him that he chose to totally stop all of the LDN. [ I tried reducing the dose back to 2 mg at lunch which previously did not provoke dreams, but they did not totally cease even at that dose and timing]. Can anyone suggest any protocol where good effects might be obtained below 2 mg but without side effects?
Yes. I am on it and it does help me sleep better and have less pain. But I still need pain medications, and I hoped that I would no longer need it. I can sleep longer at night, though and don't wake up as often.
I would ask your provider. At 3 mg a night, sometimes I do get more vivid dreams, but not always. Maybe I also need to bring it up with my provider