I just found out some good news and wanted to share it with you all-

My doctor has finally agreed to prescribe LDN for me!!!!!!

I am sooooo happy!!!!!!!

I had given her the information packet months ago but didn't hear back from her. And when I had an appointment with her on an unrelated issue, I asked her if she had had time to review the info. She apologized profusely that she had not but that she had talked to a neuro friend of hers in Jamaica (we live in the Caribbean) and he had never heard of such a treat a treatment for MS. I gently reminded her that this was not a widespread treatment and that the doctor who was successfully using this treatment included all his contact info and his CV in the information packet I had left her. She promised to look at it the following weekend and get back to me. Well, another month went by and nothing so, per her request in the past, I contacted her through email. I asked if there was a problem and if she really felt that naltrexone in such a small dose could actually do me any harm. And I also reiterated that this was the only MS treatment I am interested in and that I have heard so many good things about it from people who have been on it for awhile. Well, today she finally wrote back and said she would prescribe it! She said it may be difficult to get here but if it can't be gotten here, she will try Barbados or Jamaica. She said she would do everything in her power to get it for me!

I just want to encourage you all to really be your own health advocate with your doctor. Inform yourself and try to get a working relationship with your doctor on the treatment you are interested in. There is no cure for MS and no cut and dry approach to its management. A doctor has nothing to lose working with the desires of the patient in this regard and the patient has everything to gain. A doctor can certainly protect his patient from the snake oil salesmen but there is no reason he should not be willing to cooperate with a patient's reasonable request! And be persistent!