pcheesewhiz replied: "Your doctor will probably be useless in helping you get any kind of handle on the facts about Low Dose Naltrexone. There is money to be made when doctors prescribe medicines for which the patents have not expired. This is not the case with Naltrexone which has been on the market for almost a quarter of a century. Since your doctor gets his or her info on drugs from the drug reps, they will not be educated about Naltrexone. I have been taking Low Dose Naltrexone for multiple sclerosis for three and a half years now and it has given me my life back. Prior to taking it, I was on Copaxone and spent the day going from the bed to the sofa and then back again. In short my life was a living hell. Once I started taking Low Dose Naltrexone, I went back to work and the gym and began to have a social life again. Not everyone who has MS experiences as good a result from Copaxone as I did, but many do in fact have a very positive experience with it. You need to be on the correct dosage of 4.5 milligrams (unless you have spasicitity in which case you need to stay at 3.0 milligrams) and stay on it for at least three months to get the maximum benefit. I do not know the correct dosage for Crohns or any of the other autoimmune diseases-just the correct amount for MS. Keep in mind that that LDN cannot reverse the damage to the myelin. So the LDN will have no effect on any symptom that is the consequence of myelin damage. Your doctor gets no training in parmaceuticals in medical school. IT is just not part of the curriculum. Drug reps are the ones who educate the doctors on what to give thier patients. Drug reps are rewarded on the basis of promoting the drugs that have the highest profits. These are the drugs that are the newest that still have a patent. Drug companies openly discouage their reps from recommending anything other than drugs upon which they have a patent. They do this by giving bonuses and the highest salaries to the reps who do the best job at promoting the high dollar drugs. Conversely, reps who don't do this are either getting horrendous evaluations or they are already fired. Doctors are also given bonuses by the pharmaceutical companies on the basis of the drugs they prescribe. As a consequence of the aforementioned, may I suggest that you do your own research. Simply go to LDN.ORG and you will find many, many web sites that have infor on the drug and the various auto-immune diseases for which it is effective. Keep in mind that all the current research indicates that more research needs to be done. This is because giving any drug the total green light always means that they will not get another contract to do research on that drug. In other words approving a drug would only put them out of another job. Keep in mind also that drugs usually get approved because the drug company is trying to get apporval for them so that they can get a patent. But since Naltrexone was approved for the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse years and years ago, the patent has expired and therefore the drug companies cannot make big money on it. Since they cannot make the big money now on it, they will not put one penny into doing any research to get it approved for another use although it has the possibility to improve the lives of hundreds of thousends of people. They are in this for profit and could not care less about humanitarian purposes. Sad, isn't it?"

aminoguy replied: "You should always explore the idea that your MS could be mercury toxicity and try using N-Acetyl Cysteine, Vitamin A,C and E, Selenium, co-enzyme Q10, and Vitamin B-6, 12 and Folic Acid first. You also might want to try Oganic Germanium or GE-132 as it will probably be a bit cheaper."