4 Years Normal Liver Tests using Low Dose Naltrexone for HCV!
I started using 3 mg. Low Dose Naltrexone in Feb/March 2009 and got back my first labs in June of that year. My Hepatitis C viral load had been at 1,400,000 and my ALT was at 174 - AST AT 90. After 3-4 months of being on the LDN, my viral load dropped down to 49,000 and my ALT was at 23 and AST at 30. That is when I started recording my lab results and progress.Since that time, every lab test has shown liver enzymes within the normal range (maybe a point off of normal) and my viral load has remained low.
I consider myself as a human guinea pig - or that I have been conducting my own "clinical trial" using LDN to treat my Hep C. I have more or less been using the same 3 mg. dosage - sometimes taking it every night or as now, taking it every other night. I have been getting the same prescription from Skip's Pharmacy for the entire time, except at the beginning when I used the prescription that I got from Dr. Berkson - and that pharmacy used lactose as a filler, which did not work for me. Skip's uses Avicel.
I had new labs done last week and saw my great integrative doctor, Dr. Kashi Rai at "For Better Health." She has been my doctor since 2007 and is the one who steered me towards Dr. Berkson. Since then, she has prescribed the LDN as well as ordered whatever labs that I needed for my "trial." She is also a genius at reading lab work and how to correct any imbalances by using mostly supplements and diet - she will also prescribe medications if the situation warrants - but that is not the case for me. She also suggested that I change my ALA from Metabolic Maintenance (Dr. Berkson's recommendation - or a European sourced Lipoic Acid) to Jarrow Alpha Lipoic Sustain - 300 with Biotin. I fought her tooth and nail over this as it would be almost a sacrilege to go against Dr. Berkson! But, she said that she had seen terrific results in other patients labwork - so I started taking it last November - during the last few months, was only doing 1 daily. New customers to iHERB can use this code for a discount: KOV896 - All labs done since 2007 via Quest Diagnostics:
New Labs June 2013
06/2013 01/2009
Alpha Fetoprotein - 3.8 5.2
White Blood Cell count 5.0 6.0
Red Blood Cell count 3.82 4.21
Platelet Count 149 186
Urea Nitrogen - BUN 12 9
Sodium 136 138
Potassium 4.3 4.6
Chloride 103 103
Calcium 10.2 10.5 (H)
Protein total 7.2 8.9 (H)
Albumin 4.9 5.2 (H)
Globulin 2.3 3.7
Bilirubin 0.6 1.1
Alk Phospatase 54 72
AST 30 99(H)
ALT 31 174 (H)
Ferritin 83 (not been taking IP6) 115
Iron, Total 122 165 (H) 9/2009
Iron Binding Capacity 308 352 9/2009
Saturation 40 36 9/09
HCV RNA 13.393 1,280,00
Lymphocytes Subset Panel
06/2013 09/2009
%CD3 (mature T cells) 76 77
Absolute CD3+ cells 1552 1008
%CD4(helper cells) 58 52
Absolute CD4+cells 1162 720
%CD8 suppressor t cells 20 24
Absolute CD8 cells 396 333
Helper/suppressor ratio 2.94 2.17
%CD16+CD56 NK cells 10 10
Absolute NK cells 16+56 207 128
%CD19 (b cells) 12 11
Absolute CD19+ 248 134
Absolute Lymphocytes 2033 1308
TO BE CONTINUED! bear with me folks - dealing with cat with cancer dx - and trying to post complete labs
1 comment:
Wow, those are fantastic results! If I take ALA again it will be the one with biotin. I used to like the effect of biotin by itself. You need it to make essential fatty acids, as well as to drive the TCA with ALA and B1,2,3.
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