Happy and grateful goodbye to this forum, I am cured (76 y.o.)
Here are my reasons.
I had PCa, no doubt, I am cured, no doubt. Because one is not cured who still worries about his disease, I am leaving. This post is two years late, and now there is another reason (see further).
I used non SOC for DX, the cure and monitoring, this is why this post is probably useless.
Both my brothers (both MD) had PCa, and I was direct testimony of how treatments was ruining their lives. Because I was old enough to not try desperately to add a few months to my life, I didn’t want to follow their way. And – saying that as a joke – my wife prefers me died than impotent (so do I), I though I had some time to give non SOC a try.
I used a future SOC for monitoring, repeated MRI; prostate shrank from 45 cc to 40, and 35 for the last one. So did lesions who had quasi disappeared at the third MRI.
PSA was monitored until a huge surge frightened me, but not my second urologist.
I am not sure it is useful to give details of my treatments. I never believed in starving the cancer because of homeostasis. However I enhance my yet healthy diet. Less glucids as possible (no bread, no rice, no potatoes), high on fat, specially fat (french) cheeses, no milk, no dairy, some red (french) wine. Huge consumption of fruits, lettuce, spinach, broccoli onions, mushrooms and cooked tomatoes.
I used so many treatments than I’m unable to say which ones were effective. Some I remember of are artemisinine, low dose Naltresone, and mainly sodium R-lipoate and Garcinia Cambogia.
Despite having refused biopsy, I had a proof I had Pca at the very end of my story, when my first urologist said to her assistant that it was impossible to believe the first and third MRI belonged to the same person, and that she was, with her boss, absolutely sure of PCa at the time of the first MRI.
Because I’ll soon die for ALS, which is no cure, no hope, I realize how PCa is so special and much more worrisome. Had I make the good choices, what a troublesome question! With ALS, one quickly dies, no questions, no hope, no disappointment.
If I had time, I’ll make a second post sharing what I learned form this forum, mainly to support SOC, and saying it’s too easy criticize big pharma