{"id":72,"date":"2017-12-08T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdy202pshj.wpdns.site\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-12-15T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:14:37","slug":"low-dose-naltrexone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/low-dose-naltrexone\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment for Chronic Pain: Low Dose Naltrexone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Low-dose naltrexone or LDN, has demonstrated the ability to reduce severe symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Crohn&#8217;s disease, multiple sclerosis, and various regional pain conditions. \u00a0Right now, if you were to Google uses for LDN, a much longer list of possible uses will show up. For now, let&#8217;s focus on chronic pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With fibromyalgia, the chronic wide spread pain can grow difficult to manage combined with the additional symptoms of tiredness, sensitivity to lights and sound, anxiety and more. \u00a0Low-dose naltrexone is not an opiate pain medication, but actually the complete opposite! It is an opiate blocker. \u00a0When taken in low doses, (1-5 mg dosage range) pain can be reduced from the response of increased endorphins and decreased inflammation in the central nervous system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When first starting out, your doctor will prescribe a very low dose just to get your body acquainted with the medication.\u00a0 Keep in mind everybody will respond differently and may need a to move up dosage size a little faster.\u00a0 Every patients is different &#8211; body size, metabolism, sensitivity and how they absorb the drug.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The treatment of low-dose naltrexone can take anywhere from 8-10 weeks to see if you respond to the drug.\u00a0 By working closely with your doctor, you will be able to establish a proper dosage to maximize effectiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information on low-dose naltrexone, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3962576\/#Sec11title\">HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>To schedule a consultation regarding low-dose naltrexone, give us a call at (215)-679-9700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-dose naltrexone or LDN, has demonstrated the ability to reduce severe symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia,\u00a0Crohn&#8217;s disease, multiple sclerosis, and various regional pain conditions. \u00a0Right now, if you were to Google uses for LDN, a much longer list of possible uses will show up. For now, let&#8217;s focus on chronic pain. With fibromyalgia, the chronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoimmune-diseases","category-chronic-pain","category-whatsnew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.professionalrx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}