how to treat an ulcerated (breast) tumor

druout

Hi Abigail,

The deleted post was just a repeat. To get a skin diagnosis you wouldn't need a scan. Just see what the doctor says. He might just take a tissue sample. Or you could send a tissue sample to an online lab perhaps.

I agree with Wrenn. You are spending lots of time on this that may be unnecessary!

Hil

abigail48

ouch. tissue sample? I don't think so. I'd have a problem even letting anyone else see it. & I;m having a new problemt rying to get the aarp card I lost somehow on thatu selss phone call to th ss office. the certified letter came back, wrong address. have to do it again. & dr llobet is going to nepal again at some point this summer. he's our only dr & I have yet to make contact with him

abigail48

repeat of what?? I aw no other post & I looked. I doubt if it's operable as I've said many times, also that I bled easily I doubt if I'd wake up if they tried.

abigail48

ps. don't runout of q-tips

abigail48

the cypress oil seems work. just in time . apply with a cotton ball

abigail48

breakthrough on getting the sticky surgical tape stuff off of the sizzors: I knew witch hazel didn't work so what else did I have on hand: dr hauschkau's rosemary leg & arm toner called in the latest bottle revitalizing rosemary leg etc. works fast & easy & saves so much agravation & time. for those of you who find my posts distressing, please then don;t read them, I write them for those who may be having a simiar trouble with similar choices, when i discovered from a ohoto that the 50 year old cyst from birth control pills had risen &hardened, over a year before I began posting on bco on the disappeared alternate forum, before I learned to edit, about a year before, in late 2010. 7 there is an over-moderator who is the final arbetrator. the cyst had adhered to the chest wall & was therefore probably not operable without taking a rib or two. talk about your own bodies which hu will know best

Mardibra

still assuming you have BC I see.

abigail48

well it's a sure ugly somethingorother 5 or 51 years out. now have parts a b f & letter to the banker about the everything ins for which I need a doctor. the doctor is due to go to tibet again soon, probably a hold up there.

abigail48

because of much wet stuff aka lymph exudations, I need in warm weather to change dressings every couple of hrs. so I've pretty much stopped using commercial dressings. I've been using scott paper towels, 3 half sheets folded into 3 & that into half, a flimsy sandwich baggie, taped to it, don't need to cut it in half or discard the zip lock. put essential oils if using some under the first paper layer. weekly the drugstore costs are about 40 dollars, though that includes laundry soap, bar soap, calomine lotion, castor oil, q tips, witch hazel, dish liquid, as well as any dressing supplies, tape etc. doesn't include essential oils. I use the commercial dressings now only when I'll be out and about for a long time. I use the coloidal silver then too. it does work wonderfully, does turn your skin permanently blue, so I use only once a seek or so

abigail48

I've been wondering about something for a very long time, since anyway 1974 when my last lover said that I had spine cancer. I've had these small blondish unchanging lesions for nearly as long as I can remember. I have one in the middle of my back & my back did go out some after that message, lately not, but I can't stand for long without pain. & I've had one on the effected breast and one above it in the hollow near the collar bone, & now a new one on the other collar bone. if these are precursers to cancer it will come in that breast when I'm 106 if the times would be the same so I'm not too worried about that. but I wonder if the oncologists have any words about these lesions

wrenn

have you seen an oncologist?

ChiSandy

I'm amazed you've been dealing with this for so long--odds are that if it were cancer it would have spread and you'd be a lot sicker or gone by now. No way you could still be alive after having had untreated spinal cancer since 1974 (and what qualified your lover to diagnose you anyway)?

Look, there is a difference between knocking alternative medicine in general and calling out theories that are utterly contradicted by basic science that even a middle school biology student would know. To whoever said “prove to me that cancer is not a fungus" (or words to that effect), I don't know where to begin. Does she know what a fungus is (it's a PLANT, not animal, organism), and a fungal infection (such as yeast, ringworm, etc.) is NOT, I repeat NOT cancer. Does she know what cancer or a tumor is? It is a group of ONE's OWN cells that by some mechanism has lost its genetic ability to stop dividing and die like normal cells--instead, it keeps dividing and growing, eventually acquiring its own blood supply and if not removed or otherwise successfully treated, takes over not only surrounding tissue but spreads throughout the lymphatic system to distant organs. In other words, a fungus (or any infection) is an invader, while a cancer is one's own cells turned traitor. (I apologize to the vast majority on BCO who obviously already know this).

Abigail, you now have Medicare, so expense can't be the reason you aren't seeing a medical doctor (or even a responsible and sensible licensed integrative or alternative practitioner). What do you have against scientific medicine and doctors? Get a diagnosis from a medical or osteopathic physician, and then seek alternative treatment as an informed patient and advocate for your own health. You have to know for sure WHAT you have and WHY you have it. Until you do that, you have no idea what you're dealing with and will continue to flail about blindly and never get better.

Sorry to tell you this, but “Dr. Google" is an ignorant moron--in the sense that the Internet has utterly no impartial filters to distinguish between fact and utter nonsense; it treats all ideas, legitimate or not, as equally valuable information. If you must use Google rather than responsible sources of factual information, at least run what you find through quackwatch.com (or .org) to determine whether there's some scientific or logical alternative basis for it or whether it's pure quackery. I have to add my voice to those who have called out Gary Null, Joseph Mercola, the late Stanislaw Burzynski, et al as quacks. A quack is someone who has no scientific medical training--or misuses what little medical or non-medical scientific training he may have--to posit theories out of thin air and use them to either bash scientific medicine (usually out of some sort of personal grievance agenda), profit from giving desperate people false hope, or both. A quack doesn’t have to be a cynical bastard: he can also be a nice person with sympathy, empathy and even respect for his followers, but utterly incompetent to treat or advise them. (Some are a combination of all three).

And unless you agree to provide blood or tissue for sampling, cultures or biopsy, you can NEVER know what you are suffering from. And if you don't know, then how can you treat, much less cure, it???? If you're scared of needles, scalpels, etc., trust those of us who can reassure you that any discomfort from them is fleeting--far shorter than the anguish you've already suffered for years. A little fleeting pain and discomfort can end a lot of long-term agony.

Stop torturing yourself and let those who can truly help you help you!!!

abigail48

I'm going to be 79 in may and have nearly never had a good experience with a medical person. the hard round place under my arm has grown some lately I think, my cough has grown worse since this jan & has been there since the biker died in '08 I'm still fairly ambulatory and havn't been tortured. It will be 5 years march 15 since I first got the sign that the cyst had gone bad . recently all the stuff that had broken up has grown back and then some, looks like it did before it began breaking up but bigger. if it's not a cancer call it whatever you like. the lovers father was a dental surgeon

Lojo

ChiSandy - thank you for your post, but I feel compelled to correct one thing. Fungi are not plants. Not at all. Fungi are their own category of organism, and are actually more closely related to animals than to plants.

http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/plants-fun...

abigail48

I've been thinking of the nigerian woman who was talked into a radical masectmy to"give her a more comfortabe death". there were before and after photos. the before: the lesion had hollowed out and was still bleeding. the after showed a fablous scar from her belly to above her shoulder. I expect she got it free for the photo op; no update if she died or died comfortably. My lesion began to hollow out about that time. & I thought well it will be like hers. but then what if she hadn't had the surgery. recently the lesion on my chest for 5 years now has begun to fill in again.

ksusan

I'm sorry, I don't know what photo you're describing. Is there a link or can you explain more?

abigail48

it was here but some months ago at least, couldn't have a clue as to how to access it, & perhaps even it was on the net somewhere. sorry. there were 2 photos before and after. might google nigerian woman with breast cancer, a possibility, if it's here it would turn up that way too

Mamiya

"the lovers father was a dental surgeon"

exbrnxgrl

Ok,I'll take the bait. Though I didn't have time to do an extensive search, I was unable to locate any pictures. Mamiya, to you have a link that verifies that a dental surgeon performed the surgery If so, I would say that was a grave mistake. A scar from belly to above the shoulder? Clearly, the surgeon, whether qualified or not, does not know how to perform a mx. This was not a mastectomy, (though someone believed that's what it was) Abigail, so what's the point you're trying to make?

ksusan

I found photos of what looks like extremely advanced disease (whether BC or not I can't say) with a plea for money.

exbrnxgrl

Ah, sounds like this may be a) a scam. b) a mastectomy gone wrong, possibly performed by an unqualified person c) nothing to do with a properly performed mastectomy done on a correctly diagnosed patient d) something and someone we know nothing about, with no verification of anything , that appeared on the Internet .

Mamiya

Exbrnxgrl, NO, you misunderstood. I was saying that over and over to myself and laughing my ass off. That should have been surrounded by the laughing so hard you are crying emojis.

exbrnxgrl

mamiya,

Oy! Now I am confused. Your dental surgeon comment was in jest?

The bait I'm taking is from abigail. I have tried to restrain from commenting on some of the anecdotes she has provided, but couldn't resist this one.

abigail48

I looked here & 8 pages on the net. didn't find it either. but didn;t halucinate thep hotos. the scar was fabulously healed, it was so long because they look the muscle next to her armpit which i understand they did with a radical surgery. I commented on this going to look again under my posts

abigail48

it seems all my posts except this last one have been delited on the members' search. not surprised, same old same old

abigail48

error. so long since I looked there didn't know how to manoever there. going back now

abigail48

5 topics 1331 posts. but I don;t seem to be able to access them. & there were much more from the deleted forum before I learned how to edit, when I was called a 18 year old male troll (etc) and a non english speaker, & uneducated, but I know some of you read those posts with sympathy so I feel vindicated

Mamiya

Yes, my comment was in jest. As I read this the question was: "what qualified your lover to diagnose you anyway?" and the answer was "the lovers father was a dental surgeon" which totally cracked me up.

abigail48

I guess the father knew something about medicine I didn;t run to a doctor though of course to get confirmation or not, and now it;s 40 years later. I can't stand long without pain, but then I'm nearly 79. the bit that I guess caused him to make that remark is still there

ksusan

I'm totally confused.