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What was the treatment like? I've heard it's similar to having the worst flu of your life * 1000.

He has a life. Melanoma is insanely deadly and painful.

Yes, the treatment was obviously totally worth it. And, I'm extremely grateful for being in the lucky 30% of patients who response completely to it.

Yes, for the two days of high dose IL-2 every 8 hours, it was pretty bad. My experience was limited to nausea, fever, sweating, and bed-shaking rigors. I've heard that some patients experience hallucinations.

Note: IL-2 was administered after I received my lab-grown white blood cells. It acts as signal to one's immune system to activate. It was used to jumpstart my immune system after it had been replaced.

Was there an option to be sedated? I wouldn't handle fever and shaking that bad, I'd panic.

Also I don't think I'd be eligible, I have ulcerative colitis which is autoimmune.

I wonder how a combination of aggressive immunotherapy and "sickness" counteracting effects of cannabis (for the nausea, fever, sweating) would do in making the immunothrerapy more effective and tolerable.

Since the treatment was performed on site at the National Institutes of Health using Federal research dollars, this wouldn't have been an option. So, I have no idea.

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