Low dose Naltrexone...for endometriosis?

J. has been on LDN for awhile for his Crohn's disease.  Apparently Naltrexone started out as a detox drug for people addicted to drugs and alcohol.  Now, in much lower doses, it's being used to treat a variety of different conditions.

J. hangs out at the LDN boards and keeps up on the Crohn's research, and the other day he found this video regarding LDN as an alternative treatment for endometriosis (in the larger scheme of treatments for infertility).

The video is worth watching even if you have no interest in endometriosis, LDN, infertility, or Crohn's.  The good Dr. Phil Boyle is pretty cute and he's got a sexy Irish accent.  Go.  See.

So after having me view this, J. asked if I'd be interested in going on LDN for six months or so and trying again to get pregnant.  

I have real mixed feelings about this.  On the one hand, we are actively in the process of adopting again, but despite having had our profile available for viewing since spring, we've had exactly one person look at it.  And she didn't pick us.  It's apparently a real slow time for domestic adoption right now, what with Russia, Guatemala, and China all closing or reopening or slowing down or tightening up.  All of the people who would have gone international are now going domestic.  I can't blame them.  That's what we did.  If Russia hadn't made it so much more difficult, expensive, and uncertain a process to adopt from there, we would have gone back.  I felt really happy about the way we formed our family with Max.  I feel more ambivalent about domestic adoption, esp. since there are so many more couples waiting to adopt than there are children available for adoption.  More like supply and demand than making a difference.  Anyway.

So who knows if our number will come up any time soon or at all.  On the other hand, I don't know if I'm up for the infertility gig again.  It was so hard on me hoping and being disappointed all the time.  Every month when I got my period I'd go through another cycle of depression.  And I'm almost 37 which means any pregnancy would be a high risk one.  And my friend A.M. is pregnant right now and going through the most atrocious pregnancy crap.  Watching her suffer is a bit of a getting-knocked-up disincentive.  I have to say I'm pessimistic about our chances.  Our infertility was never satisfactorily diagnosed.  Theoretically we could have gotten pregnant, we just never did.  Part of it was the timing and J.'s going out of remission and taking teratogenic drugs for treatment.  Part of it was my endometriosis and one blocked tube.  But theoretically...

In my heart, though, I think our time has passed.  So I'm not sure of what to do.  The LDN isn't hard to get or hard to take and won't do me any harm.  It could do a lot of good.  But could I do the whole pray...try...wait...cry process again?  I don't know. 

tags: endometriosis  infertility  crohns disease  low dose naltrexone