I have been using Dr Best high absorption curcumin with bioperine, 1000mg tablets for almost 3 years. This is the brand used by the’Margarets Corner’ blogger who has been living with smouldering myeloma for 18 years, and was used by Dienneke Fergusson whose myeloma treatment was written up in British Medical Journal. In the UK this is expensive, the cheapest place I have found it is (online) Dolphin Fitness £63. However if you know someone in USA who could buy it for you, it is around £31 from Amazon.com.
It appears to be significant to get a curcumin described as C3 complex, curcumin, demethoxycurcumin & bisdemethoxycurcumin.
If you use a different brand (which may be just as effective), check mg of curcumin in tablets, some contain very little, whereas the brand I use contains 1000mg. I then take 8 of these a day, using the Margaret’s Corner protocol which I recommend you read. It can be found online as a blog and now also on Facebook. Don’t embark on 8 a day straight away, but gradually build up over a period of weeks, this is detailed in the blog.
I dont know whether curcumin is effective against all Myelomas, probably not, given not all patients respond to any myeloma treatment. However I know that it initially brought my paraproteins down from 43g/l to 30g/l when I was on no other treatment. It has certainly halted the progression of osteoarthritis I had prior to myeloma diagnosis and the autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimotos) that I was diagnosed with alongside myeloma, so for me the anti inflammatory effect seems significant.
My consultant is aware of my taking curcumin.
