You know, I think we all can agree that once you get the quality of life speech from your oncologist it’s basically game over for you.
Many have said that they’ll try Ivermectin and other off label or unproven means to stay alive - or at least ameliorate the pain from end stage PCa. Some are actually doing it.
My feeling is that sometimes a homeopathic approach just might work. I am highly allergic to poison ivy yet many sufferers take capsules containing ground up poison ivy to make them immune - and it works.
Once, in the midst of a terrible reaction, covered in an agonizing rash, an old farmer’s wife looked at me and laughed. “Hey Doc, thought you were smarter than that!” Registering my confusion she said, “When my kids were just babies I FED THEM poison ivy leaves in salad every spring and not one of them ever got what you got.” I almost fell over imagining these poor tykes with swollen tongues and throats being rushed to the ER. But she claimed that didn’t happen.
So when we learn that testosterone is our enemy couldn’t it be possible that in many instances it could be our friend? Why do men get PCa when their T is on the wane instead of when it’s raging in our younger years?
What’s different? What changed?
I am very encouraged by this novel approach and I hope they continue their research. If I was a candidate I would certainly go for it. The worst that happens is that the cancer grows - evidenced by careful PSA monitoring and it doesn’t work just like nothing else did. Russian Roulette? Perhaps, but I really had nothing to lose since I was circling the drain anyway and the quality of life had become unbearable. Just my personal opinion and not an endorsement or criticism of anyone’s life choices.