HAART Antivirals? Atorvastatin dosage?

My dad is on valtrex (valaciclovir/valacyclovir) daily and I noticed it is a guanosine analogue. I was wondering if anyone is taking HIV HAART treatment, such as tenofovir as well? It is a adenosine analogue and therefore I would imagine would work well to bind to Cytosine and Valtrex to Thymine in the cancer DNA? I would imagine antiviral drugs are limited if only 1 of 4 potential DNA base analogues is used? I know the CUSP9 protocol is using ritonavir but it is just used by itself - perhaps a cocktail of antivirals need to be used to combine with the cancer DNA?

Also we were wondering about Atorvastatin dosage as he is on 20mg a day but Care Oncology seem to recommend people are on 80mg a day? Do people get side effects on this dosage? Should we increase the dosage?

Background on my dad:

My father was diagnosed with Grade 4 GBM after a grand mal seizure 24th Feb 2019. Located in the left temporal lobe. 

He had a successful craniotomy on the 7th of March 2019

He completed the 30 sessions and then 3 months of 5/23 TMZ chemo. In September 2019, there was alot of swelling/looked like the tumor was very active by MRI and due to MGMT unmethylation the hospital stopped the TMZ and have now been giving him Avastin on Mondays every 2 weeks.  Bloods are all normal and within range.


He was having trouble with speach and twitching in September time but this is now gone and he is back to 100% after adding Phenytoin, Clobazam and Dexamethasone

Daily:

Seizure drugs: 1.5g x 2 Keppra ; Phenytoin; clobazam daily. 
He carries around Midazolam injections in case he was ever to have a seizure but has only had 2 occassions this year.

2 x 2 mg Dexamethasone daily

Experimental Drug Cocktail (Ben Williams):

1g x 2 Valtrex (valaciclovir/valacyclovir); Chloroquine (155mg active ingredient); Celebrex 200mg; metformin 500mg x 2; 20mg Atorvastatin; ramipril; ranitidine 75 mg;  melatonin 20mg; 100mg mebendazole (1 month on/1 month off); 100 mg x 2 minocycline (1 month on/1 month off);

Daily supplements of multivitamin; 16 strain Probiotics; PSK; Maitake D; ; Mushroom supplement mix for brain (lions mane 300mg; bacopa 250 mg; reishi 150 mg; gotu kola 130 mg; ginko 120 mg); curcumin (longvida); vitamin D; ECG; Milk Thistle; Berberine; Boswellia; Resveratrol; Omega 3-6-9; Soy Falvonoids (geinistein); Astragalus; Artemisinin

Cocktail for Yara’s father / help with drug side effects / 30% PD-l1 expression

Hello my dear friends and partners!

I had many doubts and I still have them despite of reading much.
And I decided to ask for your help at least.

My father had surgery 4 month ago. Chemoradiation finished 1 month ago. Left side of brain was damaged. He has Glioblastoma.

He has problems with speech and memory now.
That is why it is too hard to establish the cause of some uncomfortable and bad feelings after taking medicines and CAMs… He can not describe it correctly and can not remember when it was started for example…

---------He has no mgmt/idh1/braf/msi
---------He has 30% PD-l1 expression.
---------MRI shows continued growth (mono TMZ was not effective).

This month we started:
avastin+TMZ (5+23, 400 mg)

It is risky because TMZ did not worked well before. But I found it can do other work: reduce PD-l1 expression. And decided to use PSP(PSK) Oriveda together (6 pills =5 days with TMZ, 2 pills other days).

!) MAIN QUESTION: is this mechanism can work or not?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30709339

!) SECOND QUESTION IS: he is getting shakes. What can it be?  (inside based like fever). But temperature is ok. Blood pressure is pretty normal. Pulse is ok.
Problem is – he can not remember when it was started (may be after avastin). It was more than 1 time. He is hiding his condition may be…
And he sleeps much.

These supplements was added (after radiation/before or together with new chemo):
avastin (1 in 2 weeks) +TMZ (5/23)
++++++ melatonin 20mg only 5 days (or need to use all time?)

---------1) alpha lipoic acid (2x300=600)
---------2) curcubrain (1x400=400)
---------3) PSP(PSK) Oriveda (2x350 = 700  or 6 at TMZ days)
---------4) Carvedilol for pulse (1/2)
---------5) started to change carbamazepine (200mg) to keppra (250mg) – TOGETHER 1 week. Then more keppra less carb.

PS – keppra for unmethylated MGMT (still risk if TMZ not working)

Help me to connect his fever/shake with suppliments.
I can guess 1) it is avastin 2) keppra together carbamazepine 3) may be PSK/PSP… But may be you know bwtter?

Also he is taking (from the beginning)

---------metformin (1500)
---------Boswellia (2000)
---------D3 (4000)
---------Omega3 (1500)
---------allopurinol
---------Losartan
---------Nifedipine
---------Aspirine low dose

He has diabetes 2 type/hypertonia/


-----------What can I add or remove? (may be malatonin all days not only 5)? may be lower dose TMZ/ methronomic or replace TMZ with Irinotecan? (to not risk with combinations).
------------Is my combinations effective (TMZ+melatonin+PSP+keppra) with our mutations? (add/remove?)
------------What can be the reason of weakness and shake/fever?
------------Do you have link for Japan protocols (psk/psp)?
Thank you!

Drug for a cocktail before bedtime?

Melatonin, agomelatin, imipramine, amitriptyline or something different?

As I can see, many patients take 20mg of melatonin before bedtime.

However, as written in CUSPND
"Agomelatine’s circulating half-life in humans is ~2hours versus 30 to 40 minutes for melatonin. This is a significant advantage of agomelatine. Further complicating the use of melatonin would be the variable and generally poor absorption after oral administration. Agomelatine penetrates the blood-brain barrier."

This study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28500556) compared agomelatine and other drugs and concluded that the most effective for glioblastoma - imipramine or amitriptyline.

However, here (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27480195) on the contrary it is reported "that imipramine and tranylcypromine reduced the cytotoxic efficacy of temozolomide under some oxygen conditions while fluoxetine did not demonstrate such effects".

So which of these drugs should be added to the cocktail before bedtime?

Looking for help with our cocktail

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this blog and would love to get some advice. My dad was diagnosed in December 2015 with a glioblastoma. Unfortunately it's inoperable because of it's location (corpus callosum). I've just read Ben William's book and I think it's very sensible to try the cocktail approach. He finished radiation plus Temodal and is now in his 5th cycle of Temodal. After the 6th cycle he'll be switched to metronomic Temodal. He also takes:
- dexamethadone 4mg/day
- D-L-methadone 1,75ml/2x day
- Heparine injections because of a thrombosis
- Keppra 500mg/2x day
He is also using Optune TTF. But there's more that we want to do. I'm very interested in DCA but worried if it might interact with the methadone. From what I've read online, he should start on a low dose and without caffeine as brain tumor patients can't seem to tolerate a higher dose. Do you think that we should give it a try? I think it's pretty hard to get...
Additionally we're considering the following:
- PSK
- Melatonin plus Aloe Vera (again I'm worried because of the methadone as it makes him really tired)
- Fish oil (Omega 3)
-CoQ10
It would be so helpful for us if you could give u your advice!
Thank you so much
Steffi

Melatonin for cerebral edema? Opinions?

My brother has a cerebral edema that is difficult to control. I'm trying to find some herbs supplements. What is your opinion on this?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24876075

Metformin and Melatonin

I'm currently stable with residual disease on watch and wait. Trying to decide whether to take melatonin and Metformin. I don't want to minimize their efficacy when I need them during active treatment at a later date. Anyone have any insight into this? Grace and peace, Danny

Melatonin in UK without prescription

It is easy to get melatonin without prescription in US but this is so funny in UK they can't sell it as melatonin so they sell it as "natural hormon" ...so funny . I like that pharmacy
https://www.doctorfox.co.uk/jet-lag/melatonin.html#prices

More support for melatonin

Melatonergic system-based two-gene index is prognostic in human gliomas.

This study shows that two genes related to melatonin biosynthesis (ASMT) and metabolism (CYP1B1) is an independent prognostic factor in gliomas.  This index is expressed as a ratio, and tumors with high expression of ASMT (melatonin synthesis) and low expression of CYP1B1 (which converts melatonin to a metabolite that can be excreted in the urine) tend to have better prognosis.  Higher grade tumors tend to have a lower ratio (ASMT:CYP1B1).

This finding could be viewed as support for supplementing with melatonin, especially for higher grade gliomas.

Will add this study to the Library.

Temodar in the morning or in the evening with melatonin.

I have seen lots of publications stating that melatonin can overcome multidrug resistance to tmz. I am wondering if any of you are taking tmz at night with melatonin or are all of you taking it in the morning and what would be a good strategy.

melatonin and seizures

dear all,

has anyone experienced side effects of melatonin related to seizures increase??

We started taking melatonin yesterday as a component of our radiation cocktail..and i read few posts warning people on anti-seizure medications from using melatonin..in fact i also found posts contradicting this fact..so it is very controversial..

This post summarizes the issue:

http://epilepsytalk.com/2012/11/19/epilepsy-and-melatonin-yes-no-or-maybe-so/