Can anyone share their experience with Pluvicto?

Pluvicto was started as my PSA abruptly increased from a low of 8 after doxetaxel treatment to 17 a few months later. By the time Pluvicto was started the PSA was 198.
After the first infusion, the PSA dropped to 100. After the second infusion, up again to 120. After the third infusion, the PSA was 364 - obviously a treatment failure. Options now are essentially nonexistent. I am unwilling to accept the debilitating side effects of a repeat doxetaxel ( or other chemo agent) for minimal short term benefit.

Pluvicto was started as my PSA abruptly increased from a low of 8 after doxetaxel treatment to 17 a few months later. By the time Pluvicto was started the PSA was 198.
After the first infusion, the PSA dropped to 100. After the second infusion, up again to 120. After the third infusion, the PSA was 364 - obviously a treatment failure. Options now are essentially nonexistent. I am unwilling to accept the debilitating side effects of a repeat doxetaxel ( or other chemo agent) for minimal short term benefit.

Pluvicto was started as my PSA abruptly increased from a low of 8 after doxetaxel treatment to 17 a few months later. By the time Pluvicto was started the PSA was 198.
After the first infusion, the PSA dropped to 100. After the second infusion, up again to 120. After the third infusion, the PSA was 364 - obviously a treatment failure. Options now are essentially nonexistent. I am unwilling to accept the debilitating side effects of a repeat doxetaxel ( or other chemo agent) for minimal short term benefit.

Did it work What is PSA What is status of PC metaseries Bone?

Here is my personal situation. I was a clinical trial patient for Norvartis Pharmaceutical in 2021-22 for what became Pluvicto. No insurance was involved. 2 years later, the prostate cancer has returned and I am going through the same 6 Pluvicto treatments again, but this time Medicare and my private insurance in paying. My oncology group worked with and obtained approval from the insurance providers.
So, I'm assuming insurance would NOT pay for the treatments twice (6+6=12). I have heard of, but do not know of anyone personally, except myself repeating the treatments.
Six teatments are about $300,000 plus peripheral costs of maybe $25,000-50,000.

Here is my personal situation. I was a clinical trial patient for Norvartis Pharmaceutical in 2021-22 for what became Pluvicto. No insurance was involved. 2 years later, the prostate cancer has returned and I am going through the same 6 Pluvicto treatments again, but this time Medicare and my private insurance in paying. My oncology group worked with and obtained approval from the insurance providers.
So, I'm assuming insurance would NOT pay for the treatments twice (6+6=12). I have heard of, but do not know of anyone personally, except myself repeating the treatments.
Six teatments are about $300,000 plus peripheral costs of maybe $25,000-50,000.

Ii is my understanding that Medicare covers only 6 rounds of Pluvicto. I am just curious..is there private insurance that covers more?

Ii is my understanding that Medicare covers only 6 rounds of Pluvicto. I am just curious..is there private insurance that covers more?

Ii is my understanding that Medicare covers only 6 rounds of Pluvicto. I am just curious..is there private insurance that covers more?

My experience was fairly similar to Lags husband.

Went through all six treatments, then got a psma pet scan to check on results.

A couple of years ago I had a five session targeted radiation treatment. The psma pet scan showed one new cancerous spot coming just off the edge of one of the previous targeted radiation treatment spots (not related to the Pluvicto treatment).

Other then that, the psma pet scan showed the larger cancerous areas diminished by about half, the smaller areas of cancer gone, and no other new growth areas.

I am currently undergoing another series of five targeted radiation treatments for the one area which has appeared just off the old area that was previously treated with targeted radiation.

As far as PSA is concerned I have had eligard shots to keep my testosterone low. The theory is low testosterone results in low cancer growth, but I not found that to be true. All the eligard seems to do for me is keep my testosterone down. I see no effect one way or the other on my cancer. My testosterone is currently high, in the seventies, but I don't take that as a reliable market of imminent cancer doom.

I will have to see how I am in a few weeks after my current series of five targeted radiation treatments have run their course and settled in to determine what comes next. I know others who have successfully handled the Pluvicto treatment have now started on a second set of six rounds of Pluvicto. I am very open to going that route, but also want to see what, if anything else, allopathic medicine may have to offer.