I put myself on MCP quite soon after diagnosis, having read about it on PCUK's website, and then having searched out scientific papers on it. (MCP has been shown to block the receptors on bone marrow cells which prostate cells bind to in experiments on mice.)
I searched around and found a paper suggesting that 5g/day was enough to block all the bone marrow receptors in a human. (I unfortunately failed to save a link, and only the abstract was visible anyway.) Not knowing the half-life, I've been taking 2 x 2.5g per day. I also found some comments that doses up to 15g/day appeared to be well tolerated and no upper limit was known, so I doubled up my 5g/day to 10g/day during a template biopsy and for a couple of weeks afterwards, on the basis the biopsy might release more cancel cells into the blood (although I found another paper saying there was no evidence of biopsies causing any extra metastasis).
Just wondering what others self-medicating MCP take as a dose?
When I went in for the pre-op meeting a couple of weeks before the biopsy, one of the questions is about any self-medicating, and the default response is to stop doing so at that point until after the op. I said I wasn't happy to do that - I specifically wanted to take this throughout the biopsy. The nurse went off for a while to chat with a pharmacist, and eventually came back saying he'd given permission for me to continue taking it through the op. (She was surprised - that's not the response she normally gets when people want to continue self-medicating through an operation.)