ToddC

Ok so I was a bad patient in 2006, I refused interferon treatment like three different times between 2006 and when I last battled this condition toward the end of 2011. I declined Inf because I knew a colleague whom had died from melanoma and he had been given this treatment for about 6 months before he finally succumbed to this stupid disease. I saw how he felt and looked so terrible the entire time and I did not want to go down like that with this disease, I resolved to fight this with any natural or holistic methods that seemed plausible at the time since there was no know effective cure during that time period. I did all the preventable thing like wore sunscreen, ate healthy… lots of green veggies and vitamins, tried to not get any sunburn and in fact I was very scared of the sun during this time period but took large doses of vitamin D supplements, upto 6000 iu per day to compensate for my lack of sun.

Well I had a lot of tumor growth unfortunately after this and had many surgeries to remove these which continued to grow in my lymph nodes from 2008 thru 2011 before it finally appeared FDA would permit Yervoy (was IPI) to be available for use in late 2011 and I was in fact ready to go as one of the earliest patients to be allowed to use it however my routine bloodwork and PET scan just before I was to be offered the drug did not cooperate since it showed I had no further tumor growth and was therefore no longer a candidate since it was only prescribed for solid tumors at the time and insurance would not cover my treatment with it. I continued to have PET scans and bloodwork which continued to improve and I never had another melanoma tumor grow again at least thru today, 2017

What happened that would cause my tumor growth to cease? The only things I changed in around August of 2011 was I purchased a Sperti brand UVB lamp which is designed to supplement natural vitamin D production in the skin and began using this on various body parts about 3 times a week for a total of perhaps 30 minutes a week. I also ceased bathing very often with soap other than parts that really needed it so my natural sebum levels on the skin would increase, I changed toothpaste to a natural fluoride free variety, ceased consuming all forms of processed dairy products, began supplementing trace minerals and finally purchase a vitamix blender which I used to drink green smoothies about 4 times a week with fresh ground flax seed each time. So that was about all I can point to in terms of things I changed in lifestyle and I have no definitive proof this was why these damn tumors vanished but I suspect there is some problem for me absorbing vitamin D via the gut.

In reviewing my bloodwork over the years, it is pretty clear my vitamin D levels are much stonger, well over 50 today while they were always around 20 in prior years despite all the supplements I took and even though I ceased consuming these vitamins in 2011. My WBC’s are much higher nowadays and blood sugars routinely test out in the high 80’s instead of over 110 usually. I have no proof of my concept other than this anecdotal story and am often ridiculed when I tell it but seriously,I have no axe to grind against the medical community and I was also a complete skeptic of homeopathic cures and this sort of thing before I decided to pursue that as an option. It is tempting to just keep all this to myself and not share my story since it seems usually to just make people think I’m a nutcase but I offer it as someone who clearly had stage IV melanoma but is still alive today without any treatment other than surgeries or gamma rays although this this was very much progressing at the time of my remission.