After reading about it quite a lot on the net, talking to my house doctor and the neurology prof at the university clinic, it looks like Sodium DCA sounds like a good idea to me.

Allow me to introduce myself: male, 42 years of age, currently living in Munich, Germany.
End of 2003 I had a completely unexpected epileptic attack - while driving my little roadster. It ended up in oncoming traffic, and five vehicles got completely demolished. One chap broke his arm, but that was it... I didn't even get a scratch.
Woke up in the ambulance, had a CT at the Clinic Grosshadern and there it was found out that I have a largish left temporal diffuse Astrocytoma grade II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocytoma). Interesting.
Beginning of 2004 I was irradiated (X-rays only), which shrunk that thing by about 25%. I got checked via MRT and FET-PET every few months, and some years ago I had to start doing Chemo (Temozolomid) every now and then.
I can handle this well, merely get a bit tired, not feeling too well, and having a massive drop in my concentration abilities. This drop makes me unable to work while doing Chemo (I'm a computer programmer - concentration is everything).

I had some difficulty getting Sodium DCA (the pharmacies refuse to have anything to do with it), but then ordered successfully from http://pharma-dca.com/.
I will see a pharmacy tomorrow about having that stuff tested.

I've called some more pharmacies - most of them cannot produce pills (or rather, capsules) for me as they lack the equipment, and many others are scared of legal involvement.

I'll keep trying of course, but now I'd like to know how you handle it. Do you use a simple scale? A cheap (eBay! 20 EUR) scale claiming enough accurate (+- 0.01 gram)? An expensive one (800 EUR) guaranteed to be accurate for two years?
Do you pour it into water? Perhaps pour he correct amount into 2 litres of water, keep that in the fridge, and measure how much to drink? Or do you simply measure the correct amount of that dust into a glass of water every day? Spread it on a piece of bread?

My plan of starting DCA is being very careful. It *is* a brain tumor, and thus I've aborted my beloved coffee, tea, RedBull and all that, switching to Rooibos Tea and water.
I'd start by taking 5 mg (always per kg) every other day for a week. Then 5 mg per day. Then switch between 5 and 10 mg every day. Week after that, it's 10 mg every day, and I'll probably stick to that.

The prof approves, especially as it seems that I can take my Chemo and the Sodium DCS simultaneously (otherwise, it would have been No Go - the chemo does work on me, and I won't interrupt it).

I'd very much appreciate all feedback - how you do it, what you think, tips, ideas, thoughts... anything

Greetings from Octoberfest-crazy Munich,
Klaus

PS: I hear about your doctors (in the USA?) refusing to even talk about DCA. Over here they were all very interested.

Best wishes
Kylie

You are wise to begin with low doses of DCA. One of the early glioma patients in the U of Alberta trial died during DCA treatment, possibly from tumor lysis syndrome. He had an extremely large tumor and received a very aggressive dose in an attempt to salvage a pretty hopeless situation. You, fortunately, are in a better situation.

These notes may be of interest:

http://dca-information.pbworks.com

Best of luck to you, my friend.

Parachute