https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7RJYBMqWPM I am highly skeptical of this, I was already in disbelief at the number of illnesses claimed to be treated by LDN, but now cancer? Seems way too good to be true. PS: Bloor Pain Specialists has an unfortunate acronym.
My sister says it is also very popular in the Hashimoto's/hypothyroid online groups she is a member of. It indeed seems to work for every disease...
It's all very bizzare. LDN seems to have a cult following, much like ivermectin has. I think the LDN Trust puts out questionable literature to entice patients.
Is this a new phenomenon or has it always been a feature of medicine? There seems an enormous desire to use individual treatments for as many different, and often unrelated, conditions as possible. I had thought once medicine had got over this trend when such as bloodletting was replaced with actual science. However it seems to be on the increase be it specific medicines or such as CBT. Has it always been a fantasy that medicine is based on understanding the underlying conditions and from that developing an appropriate treatment.
When I joined an LDN facebook group, before I had joined this forum and learnt much about ME, I was suprised to see the list of conditions they said LDN helps was basically every single chronic illness that doesn’t have an effective treatment. Basically the autoimmune and pain diseases + a lot more. I think there is decent evidence that it slightly helps pain, and then a lot of people with different diseases have convinced themselves the reduced pain is actually LDN improving their disease or something?
I remember reading an article that pharmaceutical companies sometimes try to find new applications for certain medications. I wonder if this is what is happening here.
https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/f...se_naltrexone_for_treatment_of_pain_in.3.aspx - Outcome data did not indicate any clinically relevant analgesic efficacy of the LDN treatment in patients with FM. Naltrexone's patent has expired and it's now available as a generic at low cost so I doubt there's much profit in it.
But you have to go for consultation to get the prescription, and they'll probably want to do a whole load of tests first, then there'll be more tests to monitor your response to the medication... That'll be where the profit is, rather than a drug you could probably find listed on eBay if you knew the right search term.
