Low Dose Naltrexone & Diet for Multiple Sclerosis & Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

I am delighted to tell you all I’m now on the 4.5mg dose and I have no side effects yipeeeee. I had thought I might get stiff on the 4.5mg as I got terrible stiffness on 3mg in Autumn 2005.

All going well with that side of things. I can’t really see any other major changes apart from fact my lower leg  and feet paranthesia has decreased alot. I spent alot of time this year wearing my runners as little else felt comfortable under my feet. The tingling creepy crawling and nervy pain in my lower legs and feet is far better too. This used be a nitemare when going to sleep at night but it’s far more tolerable now.

My moods are a nitemare though the last few months. They seem to have got worse since starting LDN. I’m not sure whether it’s LDN, the nature of my MS or the nature of my PCOS or a combination of all. I think I learned alot from psychotherapy counselling in the past that gets me through low moods now so thankfully I don’t get as low as I used. It comes on out of no where and I can be snappy, irritable, anxious. I just know at this stage all I can do when I feel like this is get extra sleep and take things easier and not to beat myself up about it. I am currently experimenting a bit with fish oils. I changed to capsules lately so i can stomach higher doses early in the day. I can have a weak stomach in the morning and the liquid oil i was taking was making me gag at times so thought best to get a good capsule so i’d stick to it better. It’s hard to a find a good fish oiil capsule with high EPA and DHA but i found a pretty good one made by Lamberts. There are 1100mg capsules containing a total of 600mg of EPA+DHA per capsule hich is a nice amount per 1100mg capsule so I was delighted. I usually take approx 2500mg of fish oils the lat few yearsas it’s approx the recommended dose for MS. However I have read so many articles  on PCOS and fish oils, anxiety and fish oils, depression and fish oils that sparked me to up dose now that i’ve fond a capsule i like and works out good value. I have upped my dose the last few days to 6 capsules each morning. The 6 capsules give me 3600mg of EPA+DHA (6 x 600mg)daily. I am going to keep upping every few days till I reach approx 5000mg and see how that goes.

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