Archive for March, 2007

LDN Day 28 – Status Report

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Today is the 28th day since I started taking LDN. I’m still feeling good and going regularly to the gym and doing vigorous workouts on Cross trainer.

No trouble sleeping and appetite is good. Keeping my original lifestyle which involved regular dinners out and drinking wines (red & white) and champagne. My LDN prescribing Doctor, said no need to curtail normal life activity.

By this date, my oncologist had expected my medical situation to have taken a turn for the worse and to consider beginning chemotherapy as a last effort to slow down the growth of the metastatic cancer.

Chemotherapy has no track record of success in treating cervical cancer metastatic to the lungs, so going that route is an admission of defeat. I’ve chosen to use LDN exclusively for the moment, because chemotherapy will not work and will destroy my existing immune system while doing nothing against the existing cancer.

Will be posting again in 2 weeks, when I’ve been on LDN for 6 weeks, and getting closer to the time when I will begin to find out whether LDN is working because if it isn’t, symptoms of the metastasis will become noticeable.

Dee

Low Dose Naltrexone for Cervical Cancer

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Dee 2004

This is my personal blog of my experience with LDN in the hopes of controlling my cervical cancer (adenosquamous) which has metastasized to my lungs. On my last CT scan (January 29, 2007) my Oncologist confirmed metastatic cancer with 13 nodes in the lungs, Stage 4B.

There is virtually no hope of long-term survival using conventional regimen which will involve carboplatin/taxol chemotherapy. I’ve already been through RT/Chemo(cisplatin) completing that regimen on January 9, 2006 and the PET Scan after that treatment was clear.

It’s for this reason I’ve searched for an alternative treatment as I’m not currently experiencing any serious effects from the lung nodules at this time, and found out about LDN from my friend in Florida.

I contacted Dr. Bernard Bihari, who discovered the benefits of LDN for MS cancer patients and had experienced some success in applying LDN to ovarian cancer patients, in the hope that my rare form of cervical cancer might also be responsive.

I got a prescription for LDN from Dr. Bihari and ordered a 90 day supply of 4.5 mg Naltrexone (LDN) pills from Skip’s Pharmacy in Boca Raton, Florida and started the regimen on February 12, 2007 taking one 4.5 mg LDN pill between 10-11 PM each night. As of this writing, I’ve now been on the regimen 21 days and will wait for at least another month before taking another CT scan to see if the regimen has had any effect on my lung nodules.

Dee