Dear
Dr.
I've written this letter in advance of a medical diagnosis, to give the doctor the background of a "lump" on my chest.
An earlier version of this letter was prepared to give to Dr. G D who has been my family physician for many years. He read it and examined my “bump” on Tuesday, June 6, 2000. I have added and revised the letter, now that I have done some hundreds of hours of research in this area.
The purpose is to have you look and advise about a “bump” on my chest. I wanted to give you the background in a convenient and complete form – so here it is. I also feel that I should see a dermatologist.
This bump is in the middle of my chest, high, just below the throat line. The bump is now about 3 or 4 times larger than it was for many years.
I believe the original bump has been in that position for more than 40 years, and most of those 40 years it was about the size of the eraser on a pencil, slightly red in color, and the skin there was thick – thinner than a dime. It was not “active” in any way – not changing color, size or thickness.
I am quite sure of the origin of the bump.
When I lived in Africa, in 1967 to 1969, Ghana, there was a fly (the Tumbu Fly) that laid its eggs in our laundry that was drying in the sun. This fly also lays its eggs on cattle and animals. The heat of the animal hatches the egg, the larva burrows into the animal (host) and develops, then emerges, apparently still as a larva, falls to the ground and there continues its transformation to the fly part of the life cycle. When the egg is laid in the laundry, and you put on the clothing, then your body heat hatches the egg which then burrows into your body. After considerable research I suspect that this is the Tumbu Fly.
After the larva has burrowed in, the area becomes inflamed and the usual treatment is Vaseline to cut off the air hole to the larva, at which point the larva emerges and can be picked out or killed. My African doctor used a local poultice instead of Vaseline.
I had many of these larva sites and my whole family had them. I recall that my youngest child had them in her scalp, but they could be in any part of the body. I had several on my chest.
The doctor in Africa recommended treating only those which were most inflamed, and did this with a locally-made poultice – black "mud," over the enlarged exit hole before the larva had exited. This poultice both drew out the larva and killed it. But, there was generally a “spot” remaining – a reddened area, usually small.
Most of these spots never were larger than a point. One of them, the one here reported on, was the largest. As far as I recall after the initial activity in Africa, whether treated with the poultice or not, the “spot” would never become active, nor would ever change in size or color.
That is where this spot, which is now a "bump," was a few years ago.
Some years ago I then had a few warts and was just starting to sell a product called Agrisept (Essentially Yours) which was made from extracts of the seeds from grapefruit, tangerine and oranges. It was sold for the purpose, among others, to remove warts. I tried it on one or two and it worked just like expected.
The Agrisept is apparently corrosive to unhealthy tissue, strong, and a small drop of it on the top of the wart, then covered with a band aide would shortly turn the wart into a bloody mass, oozing, and slightly bleeding. I did this over a few days, changing the band aide and there would be a fairly thick scab, sometimes break off and still bleed, but after about 10 days the scab would pull off leaving pink normal skin below. The wart was gone and the area looked healthy. There was a slight skin color change to white rather than pink.
I tried that on the fly larva bump. It caused all the same changes, but never dried to healthy skin. The scab would continue oozing and never heal. I did this, on and off, for several months. The scab would get, finally, dry, but generally always some scab, meaning to me that something was still “growing” underneath. I now believe that the fly larva left behind some "foreign protein" which was encased in the thickened skin and was completely inactive. I now believe that the Agrisept broke through the casing and that my immune system has tried to "handle" the foreign protein, so far unsuccessfully. I think, now, that the "cure" will be to somehow remove the unhealthy tissue so that the lesion can close and heal. I don't believe that some great improvement in immune response is likely to handle this matter.
On or about August 17th my good friend from India will arrive. He is Dr. Raghavan, the man who has designed the MSM Cream I've used on this bump. He told me that the cream is not enough for such a bump -- that the problem is too deep for the cream to handle. However, he has some other materials to give me (August 17th) which will cause the problem area to move toward the surface where the MSM cream (with homeopathic ingredients) should finalize the cure.
I think, at one point it was completely inactive, no scab, but the skin area was larger and the skin thicker. This was after the earlier treatment. I wanted to do better.
I then, with a friend in India, developed a homeopathic skin cream with a high amount of MSM in it. I was soon to be selling that, and decided to experiment with it.
I applied this skin cream (very safe on any tender area – does not corrode the skin at all) and the bump again became very active. I continued to apply the skin for some weeks, the area got larger, the skin scabbed darker and there was oozing and slight bleeding when the scab would break off.
Finally my wife was so concerned that I decided to quit treating the bump and I went for some weeks of no treatments (other than to splash Clarks Colloidal Minerals on the area after a shower). The scab definitely changed, going to much more dry, smaller, but it was slow in healing and never did return to normal skin.
Dr. D looked closely at the bump and read the above. He said that he thought there was zero possibility of it being melanoma, about 80% chance of being something I didn’t understand until I did the research for this article, “Granuloma,” where cells are simply growing, not malignant, and not healing, and 20% chance of “basal cell carcinoma,” the most common type of skin cancer, 95% of the time not dangerous.
In any event he recommended I see a dermatologist and get a biopsy, which I still expect to do.
While he and I were speaking I asked about blood pressure. That day it was 160/110. I told him I had tried a few BP drugs, got no results, and didn’t want to take drugs. He has convinced me that garlic (one half clove equivalent) and Fatty Acid Omega 3 & 6 are useful, and I will be adding those to my regular intake. He did not feel that I needed anything more than these items.
When it comes to a recommendation for a dermatologist, I would want one who would do the least possible invasion of the site. Dr. D mentioned that he felt a “tissue biopsy” was not called for, but a “shaving” biopsy.
Also, I will want the doctor to explain, fully, before any biopsy, what the recommended actions would be for each of any possible outcomes for the biopsy.
In other words, I am extremely unlikely to ever be willing to have chemotherapy or radiation under any circumstances, and would not even do a biopsy if the only result of the biopsy being positive for cancer would be radiation or chemo, and the biopsy would speed the spread of the cancer. If the possible treatments include non-radiation and non-chemo, then, and only then, would I move ahead with a biopsy. Thus, I am looking for a referral to a dermatologist who is most likely to acknowledge alternative treatments to chemo and radiation.
As of today, July 30, 2000, the area is quite large. I have recently used a large band aide over the spot, and the outline of that band aide is quite visible around the spot. I have had no bleeding or oozing in the last 36 hours, but the spot still looks "fresh." I was applying my MSM cream until recently, and lately only use Clarks Minerals. There will be more information posted here from time to time. I've had lots of experience with skin "rashes" while using MSM.
Sincerely,
Karl Loren
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