They say no news is good news, and in this case, it’s true—though I wouldn’t generally trust that old phrase.
For doses 4 and 5, I did exactly the same as for doses 2 and 3, experiencing no side effects. But then came dose 6, my last of Protocol 5. I foolishly decided to eat a piece of toast in the morning. I don’t know why I chose to mix things up when everything was going so well; for some reason, I craved a piece of Carbonaut bread with butter. As some of you may know, I can’t swallow pills without food anymore. I think it’s pill fatigue, and it’s all in my head. When I try to swallow a pill with water, my throat doesn’t cooperate. So, I take all my meds with food during meal times, or, if necessary, at other times, I use a nut or something small to chew, then I put the pill in my mouth and swallow as if I am only eating a chewed nut. It might sound silly, but I plan to have pill-swallowing issues like a little old lady until I actually am a little old lady. Halfway there!
Anyway, like a donkey, I ate a piece of Carbonaut bread with butter and took my standard of care (SOC) pills and Metformin at 7:30 (not 7:00 as I had planned). Then, at 11:00, I took my DON dose in the enteric pill, just like the rest of protocol 5. By 12:15, I was in the hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) tank and up to pressure soon after. Around 12:45, I started feeling nauseous and pretty quickly, I vomited. A bit of mushed toast came up—graphic, I know, but it illustrates that it hadn’t passed from my stomach to my intestine in the 5 hours since I’d eaten it. Thankfully, it was just a small amount, and I felt fine for the rest of the session. Notably, my blood glucose was extremely low on that 6th dose in the tank. My Keto-Mojo read “LO” with no value. I had to sync it with my phone to find out I was at 18 mg/dL or 1.0 mmol/L—dangerously low. Glucose always dips low when you are in an HBOT chamber; it’s not uncommon for me to be around here, although my previous recorded low before this was 20 mg/dL, aka 1.1 mmol. I argue that if I weren’t in a state of ketosis, I would have experienced severe hypoglycemia. Most doctors I’ve discussed my glucose levels with don’t understand how ketones mitigate the side effects of severe hypoglycemia, so they get pretty alarmed. Thankfully, the ketones keep me going, and the beauty of the whole thing is that I was there on DON, which inhibits glutaminolysis. So, there was no glucose and no glutamine for the duration of my HBOT session! Die, cancer cells, die!
I wish I could say that my glucose had been low 24/7 during this protocol, but it might have been the worst glucose average since starting. I am down to 115 lbs, so I no longer want to fast. I have switched to eating a few more calories and am trying to spread them more throughout the day. I am thinking about a tube feed system where I can have an oil drip. I haven’t looked into it, but I would 100% do it if it was medically sound and could be maintained in an HBOT tank. If anyone knows the answers to either I would love to hear it.
I look forward to seeing how this protocol impacts my CA15-3 blood test. I’m not ready to do a PET scan yet, so I will continue to monitor the biomarker to see how it trends in relation to my use of DON and HBOT.
I am now on a two-week break. During this time, I will maintain strict keto, work on improving my glucose levels, and get a bit more organized around my food intake and idea of a tube haha. I won’t be doing DON or HBOT during the break. Then, on July 29, I will start Protocol 6.
Die cancer cells die!!!