A 90 yo man came to me once complaining about depression and no energy. His HMO (Kaiser) had put him on Lupron and he had ZERO testosterone. I asked him what the biopsy results showed. Biopsy?
What Biopsy... they had never done one... they actually didn't know if he had prostate cancer. They gave him Lupron based on his PSA (I can only assume). I told him I would be depressed and fatigued if I were 90 and had no Testosterone. Being treated for a disease with Lupron that was never confirmed.
Prostate cancer is slow growing. You don't do anything stupid to a 90 yo man and destroy his quality of life...
Be that as it may, that is the state of conventional medicine.
I know of a case like this. PSA results showed prostate cancer, ergo Lupron. When he died, there was an autopsy. No evidence of prostate cancer. None. Go figure. Quality of life in the last couple of years was awful, joint pain and brain fog.
I think a lot of people have the idea that "catch cancer early" is step one, and then, step 2, go after it with orthodox treatments recommended by recommended doctors as aggressively as possible. That makes sense, assuming (a) "early caught" cancer is always going to develop into something that could ruin your life and then kill you, and (b) that orthodox treatments are provided by doctors who are fully informed, that (c) the clinical studies behind those tests and treatments were truly good in all respects, and that (d) the incentives for all concerned are such that the patient's well-being is foremost. But all that just ain't so.
So what to do? That's another question. But in this particular case I mentioned, I think anything would have been better than the suffering this person endured from his various orthodox treatments for his supposed prostate cancer. He died, by the way, of a completely different cancer.
Ruth H— I agree it does appear to have been sad and senseless. My view is that the patient would have been much better off to have done nothing since he had no symptoms, just a test result, and based on that blood test result he endured a whole barrage of treatments, including hormonal treatments, over many years. The saddest thing is, in this particular case, with which I am quite familiar, I think the doctor really did care, and the doctor honestly thought he was doing the right thing by his patient. And knowing the patient as I did, I think he would have insisted on some treatment, and preferably an aggressive treatment, no matter what.
There is incompetence out there, yes, and there are many doctors who don't give a dang about other people, yes, but for so many people the these widely accepted paradigms are extremely tough to question. So they don't. And this is what it looks like. Very ugly.
My dad when thru this 15 years ago. After the Lupron hormone therapy he went thru manopause. Horrible. If I were the wiser back then I would have pointed him in a different direction. Oncology needs a total reset.
My dad was put on statins in the early 2000s, when he was in his 70s. I vociferously argued that he should not take them, because I had found research back then that they were dangerous and unnecessary.
His doctor (he loved doctors) actually responded by taking him off that statin and, unbeknownst to me, replaced it with a different one.
I didn’t find out until many years, and a significant mental decline, later. He also broke his ankle due to ‘osteoporosis’ in his 70s.
I recall now he had been discussing his PSA and an enlarged prostate, years before that, but I didn’t even know that something like Lupron was prescribed for that.
I did think it was odd that a man who had spent his entire life running, hiking, lifting weights and playing tennis would end up with a broken ankle, due to osteoporosis, even at that age. His legs had always looked like tree trunks to me as a kid.
He regularly went to that abattoir, the Mayo Clinic, where he got MRSA during a rotator cuff surgery. He had to spend a month there on IV antibiotics. They also put him on Warfarin, in addition to the statins, but also only found out much later. Because of the osteoporosis, I have to suspect that he was also likely on this Lupron. He also developed low energy and depression at this time.
He died of a complication from Warfarin mismanagement. While trying to advocate for him, I had tried to contact his GP at the Mayo Clinic,, as his attending internist, assigned during his admittance, was useless. It took a herculean effort to get an appointment with this man, but only after my father had already passed away.
He admitted that the Mayo Clinic had a ‘fortress-like’ organizational structure, which they were ‘trying to address’, then he gave me his personal cell number. I was like, what good will this do me, now?
I saw a lawyer about a wrongful death suit, but clearly he was not very savvy, because he only told me those suits are based on the amount of money someone would be worth, in terms of income, if they hadn’t died.
At 90, my father was not going to be considered ‘worth much’, which is a sad commentary on how we assess the worth of lives. With a malpractice angle, though, that could be different? I don’t know, but honestly, I didn’t want money.
I wanted to expose this callous money factory that was preying on the elderly in Florida.
With its marble floors and water fountains, big screen TVs, with multitudinous on demand channels, in every room, terrible food and even worse medical care, it seemed more like a luxury hotel staffed with psychopaths than a medical facility. One caveat is that the nurses, as in most places, helped me keep my sanity. They were wonderful, but they unfortunately don’t make the rules.
After that experience, I would not send the wood rats in the nearby forest to the Mayo Clinic for treatment. Well, maybe those would be their only appropriate patients. Warfarin is, essentially, a rat poison.
I took lupron in the 90s for endometriosis. I have had fractures and joint issues for the past 15 years. Now wondering if some of my issues is from taking that medication. It did get rid of the endometriosis, but I was never able to get pregnant.
I have no words to express how I feel. My whole life I blindly followed medical advice. I didn’t wake up until Covid. Then it was just too much to take—mandates, cloth masks, the over sensationalism of the actual Covid illness, etc.
I'm really sorry that happened to you and that's why I try so hard to bring attention to the forgotten sides of medicine. If you have a chance, read the longer version of this article as it will fill in a lot more of the picture.
DayFawnBreaking—I can relate. I would say I was already starting to wake up, and Sam Quinones' book DREAMLAND (the pioneering reporting about the opiate epidemic) was one of several things that got me fluttering open my eyes, but the covid con, that was the screaming alarm clock.
I can't even bear to read this. Sorry. Your articles are generally top notch.
The idea of doing this to children sickens me. There is some female pediatrician in California whose been in the news. She has been raising her boy from right after birth as a girl. A short while ago was according to reports she was planning to take this minor in for surgery to finish the mutilation. The father fought all of this in court, but the courts keep upholding her. I am surprised the father hasn't shot her and/or kidnapped the kid. I wish nothing but the worst on that woman. Why these parents who do this aren't checked for Munchausen by Proxy is beyond me, or whatever fool name it's been recently renamed to recently.
I wrote this article because very few people realize how dangerous Lupron or is that the main reason it keeps on getting pushed onto all these different conditions, regardless of how much harm it causes, is because of how money it makes.
It's entirely appropriate to write about it, and I am not criticizing for having written it. If I had anyone I knew who should be aware of it, I would share the link. But for just me, me alone, the information only serves to disturb as I learn even more about the damage done by this medication, particularly to children. Those adults who choose this path should be aware of the risks they are bringing on themselves.
Many pediatricians are a threat to a child’s very life. They are part of the Covid shot horror as well. I’d never put my child in the claws of some of these people.
My daughter 51 years ago was an Adele Davis baby. That was the available book at the time. She was extremely healthy and of course, lightly vaccinated then. Now she’s worried she didn’t get a measles booster, although none was offered.
Yes, that is James Younger, Save James is the facebook page. His so-called mother is clearly insane, as are the judges/politicians/lawyers in the case (both in Texas where he is from originally, and especially in California, where the "mother" have moved him to more easily destroy his life).
As a practicing internist, I would also add one of the most insidious abuse of these types of drugs in the form of Propecia ( finasteride ). Let's give a 30 something a hormone "changer" ( not really a "blocker") - so he can maintain his youthly hair profile - but then a few years later wonder why a not insignificant number of these men have sperm issues when they are trying to have a baby...........It is the supreme narcissism of our culture that refuses to accept that we all get old, we are all going to change as we get older, and the truly blessed among us have learned how to not only accept but to relish in this fact. We have truly lost our marbles. And it is my profession and its drug pushing that is really enabling this in our society.
I deeply appreciate your posts on DMSO. You helped bring spontaneous interaction back into the life of my father with alzheimers. As well as many other people I have educated about it's uses God bless you.
I have a young physical trainer with thinning hair who tried finasteride briefly, and now talks about paying for a hair transplant. I try to tell him women don't care about a man's hairline if he's self confident and manly. We're the ones who are supposed to have a full head of hair. He can't seem to hear that message.
Yes! About 20 years ago there was a large clinical trial to determine the effects of giving post menopausal women estrogen (does it reduce cancer and heart attacks). The researchers found estrogen treatments increased cancers and heart attacks in women and the study was shut down. Now it is very unusual for post menopausal women to receive these "treatments". What it the world has happened in medicine that drugs with horride side effects are approved and prescibed?
You should have kept reading instead of stopping 20 years ago. Those clinical trials used man-made estrogen, that is, conjugated equine estrogen, which is made by torturing animals. Later research found a much lower effect, in fact, in 2010 those findings were found to be faulty. The totality of randomized clinical trial evidence supports a conclusion that estrogen-alone use significantly reduces breast cancer incidence as well as heart attacks. All that said, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy is shown to be safe and effective, with lower risk factors than the patented substances. But their widespread use has been discouraged because those substances cannot be patented like the man-made products. The pharmaceutical manufacturers who own the patents on the man-made products lobbied Congress effectively so that insurance companies can only pay for the patented stuff. Individuals who want to use the bio-identical products have to pay for it themselves because, by law, the insurances companies can't be charged. A sideline part of this was a campaign to drive small pharmacies and compound pharmacies out of business. You really don't know enough about this to even comment.
I took the so called safe bio identical hormones. Then a tumor showed up. So as safe as they are made out to be, they were still feeding the hormone positive tested tumor. No one can ever tell me they are safe and effective again. I'm not the only one either.
We have seen a lot of people develop cancers after estrogen therapies. Whenever we point this out, we're normally told things like "bioidenticals don't cause that" or "the trial was misinterpreted it doesn't cause cancer" and we've even had patients we told not to do it who saw someone else who convinced them to who then developed cancers. A lot of the hormonal benefits people want can be gotten with progesterone and it does not have the same risks estrogen does....but nonetheless this is a very divisive issue.
Thank you for your sympathetic comment. It appears that women like me are the exception, but the risk is still noticable. The Women's Health Concern of the UK does say that there's an increase of breast cancer of 4 cases over the 23 cases yearly (per 1000 women) for women taking combined therapy. That's exactly what I took: bioidentical est & prog. They say that research shows less of a risk taking only estrogen alone without progesterone. Not sure about taking progesterone alone. I am sad that I experimented with this. MWD says that progesterone alone doesn't carry that risk. I am the kind of non-toxic woman who listens to my naturopath but that was risky for me personally.
Not so true about “coverage” of Premarin. It used to be one of the top ten drugs prescribed in US but now I rarely dispense it. It’s not only a horrible drug but ungodly expensive at around $90 a month with insurance or GoodRx. And no generic exists because of what it is. Apparently they cornered the market on horse piss. Also they denigrated combination therapy by only looking at Premarin and medroxyprogesterone another (horrible ) synthetic hormone. Much safer is a combo of estrogen and progesterone with various other hormones in much lower doses used for a shorter duration AND stop wearing all that synthetic clothing (polyester) especially in your undies which massively reduces your own body’s capacity to make its own progesterone. Also avoiding those pesky chemicals that also reduce your hormones is a safer bet.
But if your estrogen is too low your quality of life is atrocious, which is the flip side of the argument against hrt for women. Estrogen and progesterone supplements have given me back a life.
Yes, like me. Around menopause I had numerous friends who had estrogen positive breast cancer and that loomed over my decision not to use it. Later it was discovered that I had a “likely pathogenic” BRCA1 gene. Glad not to have started it. Local application of estrogen (leaving details out here) helps.
My wife's life was altered when she went on the pill, which led to a cascade of misprescribed SSRIs to fix a chemical "imbalance" that the pill had caused. A vicious circle. I'm so grateful we were able to break out of it, ditch the pills, and embrace the medicine we can trust - Sunlight.
I was, as a pharmacist, horrified at the idea of using such a treatment (Lupron) for something as temporary as a child's self perception (which changes daily, weekly, monthly and yearly if not on some days, hourly) not only on a professional level but on a personal one. A close cousin of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 27 back in the mid '90's. To this day I am unsure of the need for everything she went through not knowing the particulars at the time as I was a mom, working with a husband etc etc. But what I do remember is that even though she had a very low stage cancer she not only got a bilateral breast removal but chemo, radiation and two full years of Lupron shots every 3 months. What stands out most to me is her visceral psychological reactions she had starting 3 days prior to her "next dose" wherein she would become increasingly agitated and emotional prior to its administration followed by a month of absolute hell. Just when she started feeling normal again, oops! It's time for the next one! I could not imagine volunteering for such treatment without a "life or death" hanging over your head but from everything I know now I seriously doubt she needed ANY OF IT. She's never had any type of recurrence 30 years later. She's lucky she survived it. To know that it was not only probably completely unnecessary but highly financially beneficial to her physician makes me physically sick.
“when I’ve asked liberal colleagues who support these drugs if they were aware of their dangers, they genuinely shared that they were not aware the drugs had any clinically significant side effects”
Assuming that “colleagues” refers to doctors/physicians/whatever, basically somebody whose primary job function is to ‘do no harm’; then this is the single most damning indictment of the entire profession imaginable.
Thank u for writing this article. I want to say that 7 years ago, it took me, a concerned mom, about ten minutes to do online research and find out the dangers of puberty blockers. Doctors and therapists are not doing their due diligence in looking into what they r prescribing, medical journal being what they have become aside, I was able to find real information about the blockers and they could have also. Yes our institutions that are bought out by pharma like the CDC are most to hold accountable, but so are individuals. They go ahead blindly with the usual and customary protocols handed down to them putting my children in harms way, leaving me to fend them all off and inform them. Is all they need to do is look into this for ten minutes. It is negligence mixed with sheer stupidity and not one ounce of common sense.
Another in the long, long and getting longer list of great big pharma drugs that do wonders for the human body. Is there ANY drug that is a real game changer? Yes! Just about all of them if you want to become diseased and sick.
My wife is suffering with a severe spine compression in #8 vertebra has been raked over the coals with the pain medication prescribed by her PCP. The standard pain junk that has wrecked her stomach and eating habits. This has been ongoing for three months and we will see the neurologist next week, finally. I am fairly sure they will want to do surgery. I am thinking about trying DMSO but not really sure yet.
A good friend of the family had a heart attack about 10 days ago (age 55). He went to the local hospital and then was transferred to another hospital better able to care for him. In the meantime, stents were the first option. Upon further review, it was decided he needs a triple bypass.
Then they discovered some kind of lump at the base of the neck slowly causing him to become paralyzed. Within a month, he would become a vegetable they said. Then the took a lung biopsy because of spots showing in another scan and we don't know the outcome of that.
They decided to do the neck surgery first to buy him some more time. However, the anesthesiologist refused to put him under due to his weakened heart. That, for now, likely has saved him from dying this morning. Now we are trying to get him to a upper quality hospital (U of M in Michigan) to see what can be done.
The game plan keeps changing and the poor guy is in limbo for now. I don't know if he had any of the mRNA crap, but he has a long history of smoking and drinking. Sadly those habits are now coming home to roost it appears.
I don't know what effect DMSO would have for your wife, but everything I have learned about it says I would try it as opposed to continuing listening to ANY of the docs she seems to be depending on. She has been through enough of quack medicine. Your poor friend will not fare any better. Ask MWD here how you might go about this. Or schedule a consult with the New Biology Clinic started by Dr. Tom Cowan.
There is one pharma drug that appears very beneficial, ironically the very first. Methylene blue (parent molecule to HCQ) energises electron transport chain function by bypassing damaged Complexes. It also eliminates superoxides, converting them into water. This is even better than SODS which only manages to convert them to hydrogen peroxide. It can also replace oxygen as the end-stage acceptor of electrons!
I have sometimes wondered if the pharma companies should have been able to keep their patents in perpetuity. Too late now.
Please do some research. methylene blue is not a good drug by any means. Dr. Peter Breggin recently has a Substack article about this: 'From methylene blue and psychiatric drugs to pure evil.' I mentioned to a commenter on Peter and Ginger Breggin's Substack about a different subject that thought it was good too. I cautioned to be careful and Dr. Breggin published his article. Please read it.
'Methylene blue is a witch’s brew of neurotoxins. It jacks up the output of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine in the brain, and eventually, the brain will react by jacking down all three neurotransmitters.'
He gives no references or even a simple explanation as to the method of action. IF the action is simply the mitochondria working more efficiently, then I see no problem and have neither experienced any over years of intermittent use.
It is also the case that it is a hormetic drug, and many supplement at much too high a dose. I use 5-10 mg per day, but someone taking 100+ mg could end with problems, including the microbiome.
And, given MB is proven not to be a cellular toxin, quite the opposite, it is hard to see why neurons would be damaged.
I'm not discounting, and need to find more evidence one way or the other.
I've found the serotonin connection in other places besides McCullough, so if I can find it - he's likely right. Especially if Uncle Peter Breggin is down on it.
I read an interesting book, called "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" and methylene blue was prescribed for her condition - but it wasn't tolerable, and she decided to remain one of the last "blue people of Kentucky." (I'm abridging)
The serotonin connection is well-known and is the reason SSRI use is contraindicated. This apparently is only really dangerous with MB IV route, but is not recommended even with oral use.
Bottom line, it is a synthetic pharma drug (the only one I would even consider taking), and should be treated accordingly. I think too many take much too high a dose, and maybe some take non-pharma grade.
It also has a half-life of at least 6 hours, so taking the same dose over weeks will cause a build-up to possibly non-safe levels.
The protocols I would really recommend are all natural, such as urine therapy (with simultaneous fasting if required), grounding, IR/UVB light therapy, diet - all organic, no seed oils, distilled water for drinking, etc.
I've come across a podcast with Dr. Andrew Kaufman that points out what MB is, its history and its serious toxicities. I don't know why you take it; just wanted to provide some information you might not know.
A young family member was seeing one of the most highly respected child psychiatrists in our state. When I mentioned the horrible time that this child was having with withdrawal symptoms upon titrating down on the med, he said, "I didn't realize that you could have withdrawal symptoms with that med." OMFG. That statement right there started the descent of my mistrust of the majority of the medical community. I'm not even remotely surprised by your statement that your colleagues had no idea of the negative side effects of the meds that they're prescribing. Sort of like my PCP telling me that the mRNA Covid vaccines didn't cause negative side effects even though my husband was medically proved to have been neurologically disabled by it. She's no longer my PCP...
Welcome to my world. Daily. The endless parade of suffering at Surviving Antidepressants (.org). Nearly all of the sufferers heard such things from their psychiatrists and GPs
Many years ago I talked a woman out of using this as a fertility drug. Her specialist was very upset with me. Oddly she had been offered this drug although the fertility 'bottleneck' was with her partner. (Double incompetence. )
Interfering with the brain's regulation of hormones is not a trivial matter.
For a long time now, there has been a powerful undercurrent aiming to pull medicine away from science.
Personally I am a strong supporter of Szasz’s perspective of psychiatry, and mental healthcare in general. I believe it’s a giant misguided discipline that is largely founded upon gaslighting… of which most of it is unintentional, and is the result of professionals genuinely trying their best to implement a faulty ontological framework that they were taught was constructed upon sound science. But while the population is floundering in this model, the model’s architects are being served pretty much exactly as they hoped to be.
Over the last 15+ years I’ve noticed how a “DSM-like paradigm” was popping up in many different fields, each having the common denominator of exhibiting characteristics that could aggressively be pushed towards subjective interpretation. Once subjectivity enters fundamental layers of “science”… may the best marketer (or propagandist / narrator) be the victor.
Whether it’s hormone blockers, ssri’s, dopamine antagonists, climate rhetoric, wokeism, etc. once they operate using a DSM-like paradigm (sets of continuous newly-normalized ‘diagnoses’ that are chosen by morally depraved consortiums, and can be moved and redefined at will to give a boost to the metrics that they deem to be favorable) the sense of self becomes malleable, and the way is paved for *prescriptive countermeasures* to be rolled out.
I believe that most "mental illness" is emotional dysregulation, poor coping strategies (usually learned in traumatic childhood, but no longer successful in adulthood), and trauma trauma trauma.
The psychotic break happens when your internal world does not match your external world (Olga Runciman). The key is to build a bridge between the internal and the external, and reconcile them. This builds a strong, resilient, (usually spiritually aware), human.
My father was given Lupron for prostate cancer which had spread throughout his bones in 2009. Within two days he went from a fully functioning 82 year old to having a MOCA score indicating severe dementia. The urologist said it was not the fault of Lupron. He died not one year later, so Lupron did not help him, to understate the case. I searched and found this article which does state that this drug will throw elderly men with prostate cancer into dementia. I gave it to the urologist but he would not discuss it. I cannot find it online anymore so here is what I saved from the Journal of Urology Vol. 181, No. 4, Supplement, Monday, April 27, 2009:
828
THE USE OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASING HORMONE
AGONISTS ADMINISTRATED TO PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE
CANCER PREDISPOSES TO DEMENTIA: A POPULATION-BASED
ANALYSIS
Umberto Capitanio*, Milan, Italy; Hendrik Isbarn, Claudio Jeldres,
Montreal, QCCanada; Andrea Gallina, Milan, Italy; Sara Baillargeon
Gagne, Montreal, QCCanada; Nazareno Suardi, Milan, Italy; Paul
Perrotte, Fred Saad, Montreal, QCCanada; Markus Graefen,
Hamburg, Germany; Francesco Montorsi, Milan, Italy; Pierre I
Karakiewicz, Montreal, QC, Canada
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: To date only a handful of
studies examined the non-skeletal detriments of luteinizing hormone
releasing hormone agonists (LHRHa). We performed a systematic
analysis of the effect of LHRHa on twelve morbidities that contribute to
the Charlson Comorbidity Index.
METHODS: Within the Quebec Health Plan we identified
7,081 patients with prostate cancer between 1995 and 2000. Of those,
1712 (24%) received LHRHa and 5369 (76%) were treated with either
radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy, without any form of hormonal
therapy. Twelve separate univariable and multivariable Cox regression
models addressed the rate of the twelve examined comorbidities in men
exposed to LHRHa relative to unexposed patients. Covariates consisted
of age, year of treatment, postal code, region of residence and other
comorbidities that were coded as time dependent covariates.
RESULTS: In univariable analysis LHRHa exposure predisposed
to 8 of 12 morbidities (myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure,
Now that Netflix has ads I see several ads for Prostate Cancer (different drugs) they both show side affects so horrendous that I don't know how anyone would take them, despite the smiling happy actors showing nice family activities. Your article puts the pin in this topic for me. Horrendous is the only word I can say about the medical profession and pHarma industry, not to forget the legal industry.
Transgender drugs sterilize children and manipulate ‘the cellular architecture of the most important physiological systems in the human body,’ Dr. Ethan Haim warned in chilling testimony.
A 90 yo man came to me once complaining about depression and no energy. His HMO (Kaiser) had put him on Lupron and he had ZERO testosterone. I asked him what the biopsy results showed. Biopsy?
What Biopsy... they had never done one... they actually didn't know if he had prostate cancer. They gave him Lupron based on his PSA (I can only assume). I told him I would be depressed and fatigued if I were 90 and had no Testosterone. Being treated for a disease with Lupron that was never confirmed.
Prostate cancer is slow growing. You don't do anything stupid to a 90 yo man and destroy his quality of life...
Be that as it may, that is the state of conventional medicine.
I know of a case like this. PSA results showed prostate cancer, ergo Lupron. When he died, there was an autopsy. No evidence of prostate cancer. None. Go figure. Quality of life in the last couple of years was awful, joint pain and brain fog.
BINGO
So sad
I think a lot of people have the idea that "catch cancer early" is step one, and then, step 2, go after it with orthodox treatments recommended by recommended doctors as aggressively as possible. That makes sense, assuming (a) "early caught" cancer is always going to develop into something that could ruin your life and then kill you, and (b) that orthodox treatments are provided by doctors who are fully informed, that (c) the clinical studies behind those tests and treatments were truly good in all respects, and that (d) the incentives for all concerned are such that the patient's well-being is foremost. But all that just ain't so.
So what to do? That's another question. But in this particular case I mentioned, I think anything would have been better than the suffering this person endured from his various orthodox treatments for his supposed prostate cancer. He died, by the way, of a completely different cancer.
He died from incompetence from his doctor not caring. Terribly sad and senseless.
Ruth H— I agree it does appear to have been sad and senseless. My view is that the patient would have been much better off to have done nothing since he had no symptoms, just a test result, and based on that blood test result he endured a whole barrage of treatments, including hormonal treatments, over many years. The saddest thing is, in this particular case, with which I am quite familiar, I think the doctor really did care, and the doctor honestly thought he was doing the right thing by his patient. And knowing the patient as I did, I think he would have insisted on some treatment, and preferably an aggressive treatment, no matter what.
There is incompetence out there, yes, and there are many doctors who don't give a dang about other people, yes, but for so many people the these widely accepted paradigms are extremely tough to question. So they don't. And this is what it looks like. Very ugly.
Next - Effexor. Then Vraylar. Then Trazadone.....
My dad when thru this 15 years ago. After the Lupron hormone therapy he went thru manopause. Horrible. If I were the wiser back then I would have pointed him in a different direction. Oncology needs a total reset.
Is there an alternative to Lupron for aggressive PC post surg/rad w/o Mets? Or is this a good area to skip drugs altogether?
My dad was put on statins in the early 2000s, when he was in his 70s. I vociferously argued that he should not take them, because I had found research back then that they were dangerous and unnecessary.
His doctor (he loved doctors) actually responded by taking him off that statin and, unbeknownst to me, replaced it with a different one.
I didn’t find out until many years, and a significant mental decline, later. He also broke his ankle due to ‘osteoporosis’ in his 70s.
I recall now he had been discussing his PSA and an enlarged prostate, years before that, but I didn’t even know that something like Lupron was prescribed for that.
I did think it was odd that a man who had spent his entire life running, hiking, lifting weights and playing tennis would end up with a broken ankle, due to osteoporosis, even at that age. His legs had always looked like tree trunks to me as a kid.
He regularly went to that abattoir, the Mayo Clinic, where he got MRSA during a rotator cuff surgery. He had to spend a month there on IV antibiotics. They also put him on Warfarin, in addition to the statins, but also only found out much later. Because of the osteoporosis, I have to suspect that he was also likely on this Lupron. He also developed low energy and depression at this time.
He died of a complication from Warfarin mismanagement. While trying to advocate for him, I had tried to contact his GP at the Mayo Clinic,, as his attending internist, assigned during his admittance, was useless. It took a herculean effort to get an appointment with this man, but only after my father had already passed away.
He admitted that the Mayo Clinic had a ‘fortress-like’ organizational structure, which they were ‘trying to address’, then he gave me his personal cell number. I was like, what good will this do me, now?
I saw a lawyer about a wrongful death suit, but clearly he was not very savvy, because he only told me those suits are based on the amount of money someone would be worth, in terms of income, if they hadn’t died.
At 90, my father was not going to be considered ‘worth much’, which is a sad commentary on how we assess the worth of lives. With a malpractice angle, though, that could be different? I don’t know, but honestly, I didn’t want money.
I wanted to expose this callous money factory that was preying on the elderly in Florida.
With its marble floors and water fountains, big screen TVs, with multitudinous on demand channels, in every room, terrible food and even worse medical care, it seemed more like a luxury hotel staffed with psychopaths than a medical facility. One caveat is that the nurses, as in most places, helped me keep my sanity. They were wonderful, but they unfortunately don’t make the rules.
After that experience, I would not send the wood rats in the nearby forest to the Mayo Clinic for treatment. Well, maybe those would be their only appropriate patients. Warfarin is, essentially, a rat poison.
I took lupron in the 90s for endometriosis. I have had fractures and joint issues for the past 15 years. Now wondering if some of my issues is from taking that medication. It did get rid of the endometriosis, but I was never able to get pregnant.
Your experience is very commonly reported in Lupron support groups (and Lupron lawsuits)
I have no words to express how I feel. My whole life I blindly followed medical advice. I didn’t wake up until Covid. Then it was just too much to take—mandates, cloth masks, the over sensationalism of the actual Covid illness, etc.
I'm really sorry that happened to you and that's why I try so hard to bring attention to the forgotten sides of medicine. If you have a chance, read the longer version of this article as it will fill in a lot more of the picture.
DayFawnBreaking—I can relate. I would say I was already starting to wake up, and Sam Quinones' book DREAMLAND (the pioneering reporting about the opiate epidemic) was one of several things that got me fluttering open my eyes, but the covid con, that was the screaming alarm clock.
I can't even bear to read this. Sorry. Your articles are generally top notch.
The idea of doing this to children sickens me. There is some female pediatrician in California whose been in the news. She has been raising her boy from right after birth as a girl. A short while ago was according to reports she was planning to take this minor in for surgery to finish the mutilation. The father fought all of this in court, but the courts keep upholding her. I am surprised the father hasn't shot her and/or kidnapped the kid. I wish nothing but the worst on that woman. Why these parents who do this aren't checked for Munchausen by Proxy is beyond me, or whatever fool name it's been recently renamed to recently.
I wrote this article because very few people realize how dangerous Lupron or is that the main reason it keeps on getting pushed onto all these different conditions, regardless of how much harm it causes, is because of how money it makes.
It's entirely appropriate to write about it, and I am not criticizing for having written it. If I had anyone I knew who should be aware of it, I would share the link. But for just me, me alone, the information only serves to disturb as I learn even more about the damage done by this medication, particularly to children. Those adults who choose this path should be aware of the risks they are bringing on themselves.
Many pediatricians are a threat to a child’s very life. They are part of the Covid shot horror as well. I’d never put my child in the claws of some of these people.
I wonder if, someday, that poor child will go off the rails and deal with the mother in a final way. If I were on the jury, I would vote to acquit.
There is a book called "how to raise a healthy child in spite of your doctor" I highly recommend it to all new parents.
My daughter 51 years ago was an Adele Davis baby. That was the available book at the time. She was extremely healthy and of course, lightly vaccinated then. Now she’s worried she didn’t get a measles booster, although none was offered.
Yes, that is James Younger, Save James is the facebook page. His so-called mother is clearly insane, as are the judges/politicians/lawyers in the case (both in Texas where he is from originally, and especially in California, where the "mother" have moved him to more easily destroy his life).
I don't use FB. But I am glad to hear there is some sort of support for the child.
As a practicing internist, I would also add one of the most insidious abuse of these types of drugs in the form of Propecia ( finasteride ). Let's give a 30 something a hormone "changer" ( not really a "blocker") - so he can maintain his youthly hair profile - but then a few years later wonder why a not insignificant number of these men have sperm issues when they are trying to have a baby...........It is the supreme narcissism of our culture that refuses to accept that we all get old, we are all going to change as we get older, and the truly blessed among us have learned how to not only accept but to relish in this fact. We have truly lost our marbles. And it is my profession and its drug pushing that is really enabling this in our society.
Great point! It is on my todo list to write about the dangers of finasteride, I just haven't had time to yet.
I deeply appreciate your posts on DMSO. You helped bring spontaneous interaction back into the life of my father with alzheimers. As well as many other people I have educated about it's uses God bless you.
Thank you!
Oh Man! I’ve got to keep reading as I’ve missed the dmso/alzheimers connection/ benefit!!
So must to keep learning !
So much to appreciate AMD‼️❤️🙏
I have a young physical trainer with thinning hair who tried finasteride briefly, and now talks about paying for a hair transplant. I try to tell him women don't care about a man's hairline if he's self confident and manly. We're the ones who are supposed to have a full head of hair. He can't seem to hear that message.
Yes! About 20 years ago there was a large clinical trial to determine the effects of giving post menopausal women estrogen (does it reduce cancer and heart attacks). The researchers found estrogen treatments increased cancers and heart attacks in women and the study was shut down. Now it is very unusual for post menopausal women to receive these "treatments". What it the world has happened in medicine that drugs with horride side effects are approved and prescibed?
You should have kept reading instead of stopping 20 years ago. Those clinical trials used man-made estrogen, that is, conjugated equine estrogen, which is made by torturing animals. Later research found a much lower effect, in fact, in 2010 those findings were found to be faulty. The totality of randomized clinical trial evidence supports a conclusion that estrogen-alone use significantly reduces breast cancer incidence as well as heart attacks. All that said, bio-identical hormone replacement therapy is shown to be safe and effective, with lower risk factors than the patented substances. But their widespread use has been discouraged because those substances cannot be patented like the man-made products. The pharmaceutical manufacturers who own the patents on the man-made products lobbied Congress effectively so that insurance companies can only pay for the patented stuff. Individuals who want to use the bio-identical products have to pay for it themselves because, by law, the insurances companies can't be charged. A sideline part of this was a campaign to drive small pharmacies and compound pharmacies out of business. You really don't know enough about this to even comment.
I really appreciated your comment until I got to the last sentence.
T.S.
I took the so called safe bio identical hormones. Then a tumor showed up. So as safe as they are made out to be, they were still feeding the hormone positive tested tumor. No one can ever tell me they are safe and effective again. I'm not the only one either.
We have seen a lot of people develop cancers after estrogen therapies. Whenever we point this out, we're normally told things like "bioidenticals don't cause that" or "the trial was misinterpreted it doesn't cause cancer" and we've even had patients we told not to do it who saw someone else who convinced them to who then developed cancers. A lot of the hormonal benefits people want can be gotten with progesterone and it does not have the same risks estrogen does....but nonetheless this is a very divisive issue.
How horrible. So sorry to hear that. You are the exception, not the rule. Were you taking the progesterone as well?
Thank you for your sympathetic comment. It appears that women like me are the exception, but the risk is still noticable. The Women's Health Concern of the UK does say that there's an increase of breast cancer of 4 cases over the 23 cases yearly (per 1000 women) for women taking combined therapy. That's exactly what I took: bioidentical est & prog. They say that research shows less of a risk taking only estrogen alone without progesterone. Not sure about taking progesterone alone. I am sad that I experimented with this. MWD says that progesterone alone doesn't carry that risk. I am the kind of non-toxic woman who listens to my naturopath but that was risky for me personally.
Not so true about “coverage” of Premarin. It used to be one of the top ten drugs prescribed in US but now I rarely dispense it. It’s not only a horrible drug but ungodly expensive at around $90 a month with insurance or GoodRx. And no generic exists because of what it is. Apparently they cornered the market on horse piss. Also they denigrated combination therapy by only looking at Premarin and medroxyprogesterone another (horrible ) synthetic hormone. Much safer is a combo of estrogen and progesterone with various other hormones in much lower doses used for a shorter duration AND stop wearing all that synthetic clothing (polyester) especially in your undies which massively reduces your own body’s capacity to make its own progesterone. Also avoiding those pesky chemicals that also reduce your hormones is a safer bet.
This!!
“Safe and effective”
But if your estrogen is too low your quality of life is atrocious, which is the flip side of the argument against hrt for women. Estrogen and progesterone supplements have given me back a life.
Consider reading "Blind Spots" by Dr. Marty Makary. He discusses the women's health estrogen study. A whole generation of women missed out on HRT.
I was going to say the same. That study that was used to scare women into discontinuing hormone treatment overnight was quite tainted.
Yes, like me. Around menopause I had numerous friends who had estrogen positive breast cancer and that loomed over my decision not to use it. Later it was discovered that I had a “likely pathogenic” BRCA1 gene. Glad not to have started it. Local application of estrogen (leaving details out here) helps.
My wife's life was altered when she went on the pill, which led to a cascade of misprescribed SSRIs to fix a chemical "imbalance" that the pill had caused. A vicious circle. I'm so grateful we were able to break out of it, ditch the pills, and embrace the medicine we can trust - Sunlight.
Women do not thrive on horse hormones.
Mine too!
I was, as a pharmacist, horrified at the idea of using such a treatment (Lupron) for something as temporary as a child's self perception (which changes daily, weekly, monthly and yearly if not on some days, hourly) not only on a professional level but on a personal one. A close cousin of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 27 back in the mid '90's. To this day I am unsure of the need for everything she went through not knowing the particulars at the time as I was a mom, working with a husband etc etc. But what I do remember is that even though she had a very low stage cancer she not only got a bilateral breast removal but chemo, radiation and two full years of Lupron shots every 3 months. What stands out most to me is her visceral psychological reactions she had starting 3 days prior to her "next dose" wherein she would become increasingly agitated and emotional prior to its administration followed by a month of absolute hell. Just when she started feeling normal again, oops! It's time for the next one! I could not imagine volunteering for such treatment without a "life or death" hanging over your head but from everything I know now I seriously doubt she needed ANY OF IT. She's never had any type of recurrence 30 years later. She's lucky she survived it. To know that it was not only probably completely unnecessary but highly financially beneficial to her physician makes me physically sick.
It's so odd that anybody thinks that interfering with any natural function of the body can be anything but a grave measure. Even taking an aspirin.
But this!
You would think.
“when I’ve asked liberal colleagues who support these drugs if they were aware of their dangers, they genuinely shared that they were not aware the drugs had any clinically significant side effects”
Assuming that “colleagues” refers to doctors/physicians/whatever, basically somebody whose primary job function is to ‘do no harm’; then this is the single most damning indictment of the entire profession imaginable.
It's very easy for a system to frame people's perceptions so they only see what it wants them to see
I have gotten into discussions with "totally reversible" people.
They cannot hear reason. It's that W-mind virus. Really scary.
But then, my view of so many medical procedures has gone outside the norm, and people can't hear me. Because these tortures are so "normalised."
Exactly! I have had to say this to three therapists, and many doctors.
Thank u for writing this article. I want to say that 7 years ago, it took me, a concerned mom, about ten minutes to do online research and find out the dangers of puberty blockers. Doctors and therapists are not doing their due diligence in looking into what they r prescribing, medical journal being what they have become aside, I was able to find real information about the blockers and they could have also. Yes our institutions that are bought out by pharma like the CDC are most to hold accountable, but so are individuals. They go ahead blindly with the usual and customary protocols handed down to them putting my children in harms way, leaving me to fend them all off and inform them. Is all they need to do is look into this for ten minutes. It is negligence mixed with sheer stupidity and not one ounce of common sense.
Another in the long, long and getting longer list of great big pharma drugs that do wonders for the human body. Is there ANY drug that is a real game changer? Yes! Just about all of them if you want to become diseased and sick.
My wife is suffering with a severe spine compression in #8 vertebra has been raked over the coals with the pain medication prescribed by her PCP. The standard pain junk that has wrecked her stomach and eating habits. This has been ongoing for three months and we will see the neurologist next week, finally. I am fairly sure they will want to do surgery. I am thinking about trying DMSO but not really sure yet.
A good friend of the family had a heart attack about 10 days ago (age 55). He went to the local hospital and then was transferred to another hospital better able to care for him. In the meantime, stents were the first option. Upon further review, it was decided he needs a triple bypass.
Then they discovered some kind of lump at the base of the neck slowly causing him to become paralyzed. Within a month, he would become a vegetable they said. Then the took a lung biopsy because of spots showing in another scan and we don't know the outcome of that.
They decided to do the neck surgery first to buy him some more time. However, the anesthesiologist refused to put him under due to his weakened heart. That, for now, likely has saved him from dying this morning. Now we are trying to get him to a upper quality hospital (U of M in Michigan) to see what can be done.
The game plan keeps changing and the poor guy is in limbo for now. I don't know if he had any of the mRNA crap, but he has a long history of smoking and drinking. Sadly those habits are now coming home to roost it appears.
I don't know what effect DMSO would have for your wife, but everything I have learned about it says I would try it as opposed to continuing listening to ANY of the docs she seems to be depending on. She has been through enough of quack medicine. Your poor friend will not fare any better. Ask MWD here how you might go about this. Or schedule a consult with the New Biology Clinic started by Dr. Tom Cowan.
Be careful of those "top hospitals" too. Great for cardiac surgery, I'm sure. But protocols....
There is one pharma drug that appears very beneficial, ironically the very first. Methylene blue (parent molecule to HCQ) energises electron transport chain function by bypassing damaged Complexes. It also eliminates superoxides, converting them into water. This is even better than SODS which only manages to convert them to hydrogen peroxide. It can also replace oxygen as the end-stage acceptor of electrons!
I have sometimes wondered if the pharma companies should have been able to keep their patents in perpetuity. Too late now.
Please do some research. methylene blue is not a good drug by any means. Dr. Peter Breggin recently has a Substack article about this: 'From methylene blue and psychiatric drugs to pure evil.' I mentioned to a commenter on Peter and Ginger Breggin's Substack about a different subject that thought it was good too. I cautioned to be careful and Dr. Breggin published his article. Please read it.
Thanks, I did not know it was used as a psych drug. I do know it was used as an antiviral.
It is the case that it can contain high levels of brain-damaging toxins, but getting 'pharma-grade' keeps these to a minimum.
Ok, so PB says:
'Methylene blue is a witch’s brew of neurotoxins. It jacks up the output of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine in the brain, and eventually, the brain will react by jacking down all three neurotransmitters.'
He gives no references or even a simple explanation as to the method of action. IF the action is simply the mitochondria working more efficiently, then I see no problem and have neither experienced any over years of intermittent use.
It is also the case that it is a hormetic drug, and many supplement at much too high a dose. I use 5-10 mg per day, but someone taking 100+ mg could end with problems, including the microbiome.
And, given MB is proven not to be a cellular toxin, quite the opposite, it is hard to see why neurons would be damaged.
I'm not discounting, and need to find more evidence one way or the other.
I've found the serotonin connection in other places besides McCullough, so if I can find it - he's likely right. Especially if Uncle Peter Breggin is down on it.
I read an interesting book, called "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" and methylene blue was prescribed for her condition - but it wasn't tolerable, and she decided to remain one of the last "blue people of Kentucky." (I'm abridging)
The serotonin connection is well-known and is the reason SSRI use is contraindicated. This apparently is only really dangerous with MB IV route, but is not recommended even with oral use.
Bottom line, it is a synthetic pharma drug (the only one I would even consider taking), and should be treated accordingly. I think too many take much too high a dose, and maybe some take non-pharma grade.
It also has a half-life of at least 6 hours, so taking the same dose over weeks will cause a build-up to possibly non-safe levels.
The protocols I would really recommend are all natural, such as urine therapy (with simultaneous fasting if required), grounding, IR/UVB light therapy, diet - all organic, no seed oils, distilled water for drinking, etc.
https://evolutionaryhealthplan.info/
I've come across a podcast with Dr. Andrew Kaufman that points out what MB is, its history and its serious toxicities. I don't know why you take it; just wanted to provide some information you might not know.
Neurons are brain cells. You are trying to compartmentalize parts of your body.
A young family member was seeing one of the most highly respected child psychiatrists in our state. When I mentioned the horrible time that this child was having with withdrawal symptoms upon titrating down on the med, he said, "I didn't realize that you could have withdrawal symptoms with that med." OMFG. That statement right there started the descent of my mistrust of the majority of the medical community. I'm not even remotely surprised by your statement that your colleagues had no idea of the negative side effects of the meds that they're prescribing. Sort of like my PCP telling me that the mRNA Covid vaccines didn't cause negative side effects even though my husband was medically proved to have been neurologically disabled by it. She's no longer my PCP...
Welcome to my world. Daily. The endless parade of suffering at Surviving Antidepressants (.org). Nearly all of the sufferers heard such things from their psychiatrists and GPs
Many years ago I talked a woman out of using this as a fertility drug. Her specialist was very upset with me. Oddly she had been offered this drug although the fertility 'bottleneck' was with her partner. (Double incompetence. )
Interfering with the brain's regulation of hormones is not a trivial matter.
For a long time now, there has been a powerful undercurrent aiming to pull medicine away from science.
Personally I am a strong supporter of Szasz’s perspective of psychiatry, and mental healthcare in general. I believe it’s a giant misguided discipline that is largely founded upon gaslighting… of which most of it is unintentional, and is the result of professionals genuinely trying their best to implement a faulty ontological framework that they were taught was constructed upon sound science. But while the population is floundering in this model, the model’s architects are being served pretty much exactly as they hoped to be.
Over the last 15+ years I’ve noticed how a “DSM-like paradigm” was popping up in many different fields, each having the common denominator of exhibiting characteristics that could aggressively be pushed towards subjective interpretation. Once subjectivity enters fundamental layers of “science”… may the best marketer (or propagandist / narrator) be the victor.
Whether it’s hormone blockers, ssri’s, dopamine antagonists, climate rhetoric, wokeism, etc. once they operate using a DSM-like paradigm (sets of continuous newly-normalized ‘diagnoses’ that are chosen by morally depraved consortiums, and can be moved and redefined at will to give a boost to the metrics that they deem to be favorable) the sense of self becomes malleable, and the way is paved for *prescriptive countermeasures* to be rolled out.
"Once subjectivity enters fundamental layers of “science”… may the best marketer (or propagandist / narrator) be the victor."
Very much agree.
I believe that most "mental illness" is emotional dysregulation, poor coping strategies (usually learned in traumatic childhood, but no longer successful in adulthood), and trauma trauma trauma.
The psychotic break happens when your internal world does not match your external world (Olga Runciman). The key is to build a bridge between the internal and the external, and reconcile them. This builds a strong, resilient, (usually spiritually aware), human.
There's an excellent discussion of the "Spiritual Emergency" here: https://markusmutscheller.substack.com/p/spirtual-answers-for-the-third-millenium-4d4
Highly recommended. It's not the only article out there on "Spiritual Emergency" but it's a recent one that's good.
My father was given Lupron for prostate cancer which had spread throughout his bones in 2009. Within two days he went from a fully functioning 82 year old to having a MOCA score indicating severe dementia. The urologist said it was not the fault of Lupron. He died not one year later, so Lupron did not help him, to understate the case. I searched and found this article which does state that this drug will throw elderly men with prostate cancer into dementia. I gave it to the urologist but he would not discuss it. I cannot find it online anymore so here is what I saved from the Journal of Urology Vol. 181, No. 4, Supplement, Monday, April 27, 2009:
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THE USE OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASING HORMONE
AGONISTS ADMINISTRATED TO PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE
CANCER PREDISPOSES TO DEMENTIA: A POPULATION-BASED
ANALYSIS
Umberto Capitanio*, Milan, Italy; Hendrik Isbarn, Claudio Jeldres,
Montreal, QCCanada; Andrea Gallina, Milan, Italy; Sara Baillargeon
Gagne, Montreal, QCCanada; Nazareno Suardi, Milan, Italy; Paul
Perrotte, Fred Saad, Montreal, QCCanada; Markus Graefen,
Hamburg, Germany; Francesco Montorsi, Milan, Italy; Pierre I
Karakiewicz, Montreal, QC, Canada
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: To date only a handful of
studies examined the non-skeletal detriments of luteinizing hormone
releasing hormone agonists (LHRHa). We performed a systematic
analysis of the effect of LHRHa on twelve morbidities that contribute to
the Charlson Comorbidity Index.
METHODS: Within the Quebec Health Plan we identified
7,081 patients with prostate cancer between 1995 and 2000. Of those,
1712 (24%) received LHRHa and 5369 (76%) were treated with either
radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy, without any form of hormonal
therapy. Twelve separate univariable and multivariable Cox regression
models addressed the rate of the twelve examined comorbidities in men
exposed to LHRHa relative to unexposed patients. Covariates consisted
of age, year of treatment, postal code, region of residence and other
comorbidities that were coded as time dependent covariates.
RESULTS: In univariable analysis LHRHa exposure predisposed
to 8 of 12 morbidities (myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure,
peripheral vascular disease, dementia, cerebrovascular disease, chronic
pulmonary disease, moderate to severe renal disease, diabetes mellitus)
(all p<0.02). However, in multivariable analyses, after adjustment for
all covariates LHRHa only independently predisposed to diagnosis of
dementia (HR 1.5; p=0.008).
CONCLUSIONS: It is reassuring that LHRHa does not
predispose to 11 of 12 examined morbidities. Conversely, our findings
show a clear and significant association between LHRHa and dementia.
In consequence, cognitive function tests might be advisable prior to
LHRHa initiation, as well as during its course. The risks and benefits
of LHRHa should be carefully considered in men at risk of or with an
established cognitive dysfunction.
Source of Funding: None
I gave it to the urologist but he would not discuss it. And then 'science'
Now that Netflix has ads I see several ads for Prostate Cancer (different drugs) they both show side affects so horrendous that I don't know how anyone would take them, despite the smiling happy actors showing nice family activities. Your article puts the pin in this topic for me. Horrendous is the only word I can say about the medical profession and pHarma industry, not to forget the legal industry.
Transgender drugs sterilize children and manipulate ‘the cellular architecture of the most important physiological systems in the human body,’ Dr. Ethan Haim warned in chilling testimony.
To learn more :
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/texas-whistleblower-targeted-by-biden-admin-testifies-about-horrors-of-transitioning-children/