Monitoring the Alternative Treatment

The alternative treatment basically consists of Ivermectin and Mebendazole. In this article I explain the reasons and what it involves.

Fortunately, Mebendazole is easy to find in pharmacies. Not so with Fenbendazole, of which I stocked up before discovering Mebendazole.

Ivermectin is much harder (and more expensive) to obtain. If anyone is interested in knowing where I’m getting it, they can write to me through the Contact section. The internet is full of scammers and fraudulent sites taking advantage of people's desperation.

The doses I aim to reach are:

• Ivermectin: 1mg/kg/day, which in my case equals about 5 or 6 pills of 12mg (60/72mg)
• Mebendazole: 200 mg/day (800 mg/day ??))

Update 2025-04-07: After a lot of reading, it seems that for the type of widespread and aggressive cancer I have, the dose should be significantly higher. I’ve read about cases of 800mg/day or even more. I think I’ll start increasing it gradually. I can’t afford to fall short.

In principle, this would be 6 days a week with one day off.

However, until I start collecting data on how it affects my liver, I’ll begin with much lower doses and more rest days. Especially as the next round of chemotherapy approaches, during which I’ll stop 2 or 3 days in advance to avoid the risk of not being able to receive it due to out-of-range values.

Update 2025-04-10: Since last week's doses don't seem to have affected the liver too much, I'm going to increase the Mebendazole dose this week to 400mg/day. Next week I'll have another routine blood test.

Update 2025-04-16: I’ve had an episode of diarrhea and abdominal pain. It’s possible that increasing the Mebendazole to 400mg is to blame. It has forced me to suspend the treatment for a couple of days.

Update 2025-04-21: I return to the normal dose of Ivermectin (60 mg).

Update 2025-04-30: I pause the treatment again due to intestinal problems.

Update 2025-05-03: I resume the treatment again as I start to feel better.

Secondary effects

03-30-2025: For now, the only side effect directly attributable to ivermectin—because I had already read about it—is related to vision. When I open my eyes or sit up after lying down for a long time, I either see a dark area in the peripheral vision or a sort of black-and-white kaleidoscope. Always in the periphery. I’ve read that it happens at the beginning of the treatment and then goes away.

Dosage

Transaminase

These are the "normal" values:

However, after a round of chemo, these values can even triple and still be more or less within the normal range. Beyond that, it would need to be investigated.

Both Mebendazole and Ivermectin are going to increase these values. I need to make sure they don’t spike so much that they put me at risk or prevent me from receiving the corresponding round of chemo.

The problem is that with a single blood test I’m capturing a snapshot of "that moment," but a couple of days later, the values may have risen considerably. It's a curve of rising and falling, but I can’t get tested daily. So the goal is to find the day when the chemo-induced rise peaks and ensure that the additional medication doesn’t push it past the critical thresholds.

2025-04-04: It seems that the values haven’t spiked too much and are within a reasonable range. I’m going to increase the dose.

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