Clinical trials explore how Low-Dose Naltrexone could help people with Long COVID
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Oct 2024
Summary
Kate Herbert, a nurse with Emerge Australia, first tried low-dose naltrexone at 1.5mg daily but stopped after two weeks due to insomnia, nightmares and anxiety, then restarted at a much lower 0.25mg daily, which she has continued taking. The article does not give a specific illness duration or severity, but notes she had relied on nightly sleep medication for ten years beforehand. On the 0.25mg dose she reports a massive improvement in sleep quality that let her stop that decade-long nightly sleeping pill, plus modest reductions in PEM/PESE intensity, improved heart rate variability and a diminished sore throat. She calls the effect amazing as of the article's writing, and since she remains on the 0.25mg dose, the benefit appears to depend on continuing it rather than being a one-off cure.
What they credit
Credits Low-dose naltrexone, Low-dose naltrexone.
Symptoms mentioned
Symptoms: Anxiety & low mood, Flu-like symptoms, Post-exertional malaise, Sleep problems.
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