Kev
Senior Member
- Location
- Halifax, NS, Canada
Hi all
Thought I'd pop in here with this. Anyone who doesn't know me, I started on 4.5mg of Naltrexone (LDN) in November of 2007. I've taken it nightly ever since, and it brought my disease under control and has kept it there.
I've been asked over the years about potential side effects. The only side effects I encountered were some vivid dreams at the start. Beautiful.
Recently, I quit smoking... well, it has been months now. I started off slowly tapering... then switched to NRT, then came off everything. I was concerned that rocking the boat this way would cause me to flare.. to lose remission.
Good news... quitting hasn't resulted in any flare, any change in my disease. But, there is some bad news. After years of taking LDN without side effects, now I suffer from sleep disruptions. And it is getting to be problematic. My best description of my sleep issues is... imagine you go to sleep, only to dream you were wide awake all night. I know that may sound bizarre. But it is like I'm... aware... while I'm sleeping. I get up several times a night, and I'm usually awake 1 hr before my alarm goes off (around 4 AM) but the bad part is that... even if I get to sleep... it doesn't feel like a deep restful sleep.
I don't know what comes next.. but I can't continue like this. I have to come up with a solution... short of smoking. Bizarre that smoking spared me this.
Thought I'd pop in here with this. Anyone who doesn't know me, I started on 4.5mg of Naltrexone (LDN) in November of 2007. I've taken it nightly ever since, and it brought my disease under control and has kept it there.
I've been asked over the years about potential side effects. The only side effects I encountered were some vivid dreams at the start. Beautiful.
Recently, I quit smoking... well, it has been months now. I started off slowly tapering... then switched to NRT, then came off everything. I was concerned that rocking the boat this way would cause me to flare.. to lose remission.
Good news... quitting hasn't resulted in any flare, any change in my disease. But, there is some bad news. After years of taking LDN without side effects, now I suffer from sleep disruptions. And it is getting to be problematic. My best description of my sleep issues is... imagine you go to sleep, only to dream you were wide awake all night. I know that may sound bizarre. But it is like I'm... aware... while I'm sleeping. I get up several times a night, and I'm usually awake 1 hr before my alarm goes off (around 4 AM) but the bad part is that... even if I get to sleep... it doesn't feel like a deep restful sleep.
I don't know what comes next.. but I can't continue like this. I have to come up with a solution... short of smoking. Bizarre that smoking spared me this.