Many members and visitors to this forum are looking for hope. I don't mean to take that away from you. Personally, I am no longer willing to spend money on treatments and accept the risks of stem cell therapy until clinics can provide some type of proof that their treatments are safe and are working for a good percentage of patients. There are a few clinics working on their accreditation with ICMS. I appreciate that doing that is a lot of hard work and requires that they are transparent in what they do. To my knowledge, no other clinics outside the ICMS program are doing any type of FDA approved studies or any studies under an Investigational Review Board for COPD. What that means is they simply have no clue as to the outcome of their therapies. The owners of clinics say there are no guarantees to cover their rear ends, but quite frankly I want to know what their success rate is and I don't want it based on anecdotal evidence. No one is giving away free treatments, so it's time we started expecting more for our money.
At first, I did feel that the treatments I got were helping me, but I started to take Daliresp at about the time I had my first treatment. I had been very ill from a previous treatment I got and wanted to try Daliresp (Daxas back then). I have had slow, steady improvements, however, when I did not take Daliresp for even a few days, the mucus returned and I felt short of breath again. I got very sick after my 3rd treatment at BioRegenesis. As mentioned before, I have SIGNIFICANT questions about BioRegenesis. I am doing very well on Daliresp now (no more side effects whatsoever) and have no plans to upset the apple cart at this point with another stem cell treatment. Since, very few patients have reported any type of documented success with stem cell therapy for COPD, I am not convinced that the science is there to make a huge difference for this particular condition. I seriously doubt one treatment is going to help anyone with severe COPD. I have stated this for many years. Now I am also stating that several treatments may not be that helpful for most patients. I hope I am wrong.
I do look forward to Dr. Lopez' published data from his 10 person COPD trial, however. His clinic is in Tijuana and he uses adipose derived stem cells. He is involved in the ICMS accreditation program and is also doing his clinical study under the Mexican Ministry of Health's guidelines. Since, he does extensive pre and post testing, I believe that his results will be something that patients will be able to base rational decisions on. Dr. Kadish is also in the ICMS accreditation program. His clinic is in Cancun.