My cancer story so far…

So after three months of getting poked and prodded, I was diagnosed on March 13 with an aggressive and high risk prostate cancer. Still stage one, but on the verge of spreading past the prostate. I’ve been on here for six or seven years and I’ve been paying attention to a lot of of the cancer discussions. I remember as far back as 20 years ago, thinking if I ever got cancer, I didn’t want to do chemotherapy I didn’t want to do radiation. I would figure out what the alternative treatments were. So in the process of having the discussions with the oncologist and the radiologist, I also found an internal medicine doctor that worked with fenbendazole, mebendazole and ivermectin. We started out at 50 mg a day of ivermectin and 750 mg a day of mebendazole. Now the first PSA test that my oncologist took back in December was a 5.9. The PSA test that was done during my biopsy came back as a 7.19. So needless to say, I was excited with my first PSA test on April 2 after two weeks of the pills came back as a 5.8. My doctor said looking good let’s go ahead and double the dosage so I moved up to 100 mg a day of ivermectin and 750 mg twice a day of mebendazole. The side effects of the ivermectin got to be a little overwhelming between ridiculous tiredness, and brain fog and just not feeling with it at all. So we cut back to 50 mg of ivermectin but kept the mebendazole the same. I had another PSA test at the end of April and it came back at a 6.8. So for whatever reason, my PSA was going back up. On May 26, I had another PSA test and this time it was up at 8.9. I haven’t seen my doctor yet after this last test, but for whatever reason my numbers at least aren’t showing that I’m getting a benefit or a positive response from this treatment. Of course they’re so few studies out there and all the stories are anecdotal, but I definitely want to pass along that it’s not a guaranteed success and to keep your efforts well balanced in case it doesn’t work for you. Back towards the end of April I did decide that since I have a high risk case unless I can kill 100% of the cancer, the stronger cell that survive are still going to be around to metastasize and put me on a death path so I did go ahead and schedule surgery too have my prostate removed. Hopefully, in the meantime, these meds have reduced the severity of the cancer, despite what my numbers show. But once the prostate is out and they can analyze the tumor then I’ll know a whole lot more about what my future looks like. In the meantime, your prayers are welcome and I’ll plan on giving an update down the line.