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Yes one month 4.5 mg!!!!!
That's nuts. Have you thought about using 50 mgs to make your own? Might end up cheaper
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Yes one month 4.5 mg!!!!!
I paid $60 for a month supply of 4.5 capsulesI saw a thread somebody posted new places to buy LDN prepared at 4.5mg. Can anybody tell me where you buy it? I got charged $85 in my local pharmacy and I am not willing to pay that much. Time to change supplier. I have prescription.
I want to try that too. I am only up to 2 mg, but wow did I feel sleepy and drugged. It would be great to split into 2 doses a day if it works.ad anyone ever tried splitting the dose? Taking a 2nd dose in the afternoon?
My pill bottle just says Naltrexone 50 mg. and my insurance picks up the whole tab so they must be pretty cheap.Thanks @Firefly_ I think I have enough left for a few days, then I'll do the dissolve stuff. I decided to ignore the "no more than 30 days rule" and just use up what I have. I'm not sure how many days I've had it, too lazy to look but it still tastes like crap so I'm saying it still works. Lol.
What generic do you have? I think mine is malinkrodt? A white coated tablet looking thing.
I've got a whole bottle too = 30 tabs. The generic company is Mallinckrodt. Insurance pays most of it.My doc will only give me 6 at a time.
I think finding the time to take it is really important. Nothing scientific behind this, just experience toying around.
One of the disadvantages of LDN is that there’s still not standardized dose, and really the patient and the prescribing physician just kind of have to figure it out through trial and error. From our experience, we’ve seen most people end up around 2.5 mg to 3 mg; 4.5 mg tends to be too much for people. I’ve seen some patients settle on as little as 1.25 mg or 1.5 mg, but anywhere in the 1 mg or 1.25 mg to 4.5 mg range could be the optimal dose for a given person.
And the dose can fluctuate, depending, of course, on the background level of immune dysregulation. If maybe someone is gluten intolerant and they don’t know it and they’re eating gluten and they’re taking LDN and they need the full 4.5 mg dose because they kind of have their foot on the accelerator and the brake at the same time, but then they take gluten out of their diet and maybe 4.5 mg is unnecessary or even starts causing some side effects, so that’s possible.
3. We have also seen a number of cases where people were not feeling better with LDN and then they get checked for Candida (overgrowth of yeast in your body - many times stemming from use of antibiotics). If they find they have a high concentration of Candida and they go through the process of getting it under control, LDN tends to work much better for them.
7. Doctors running clinical trials have discovered that low vitamin D levels can hinder the effectiveness of LDN.
That's great! Np. And my doc only prescribes 10 at a time but hell 30 tabs would take quite awhile to use up so they might expire? I always wonder what my small town pharmacist must think, all the strange meds we've tried...sometimes I just want to tell him "no, I'm not a heroin addict" lmao.@Firefly_ I did it! Worked great. I looked at 2 1/2 hours and it was done! Thanks for the suggestion.
And my doc only prescribes 10 at a time but hell 30 tabs would take quite awhile to use up so they might expire?
I've read elsewhere that the expiration date on one generic is roughly three years.