VERY discouraged

Purple, do consider adding some fish to your diet. I try to eat sardines or similar fish a few times a week. Good oils, good protein, and if you eat canned sardines with the bones in you get a dollop of calcium as well.



I will also ditto the exercise advice. In all the reading I have done since my DX, the value of regular exercise jumps out. The beauty is that exercise will help with all your concerns, circulation, bones and cancer recurrence. Sometimes I think we get too focused on magic tricks, be they letrozole or some exotic pill from the health food store. I am more and more inclined to think that they key really is a healthy, decent moderate diet and lots and lots of exercise. Not that it can guarantee a cancer-free future, but in terms of helping ourselves it may be the most effective approach. It takes commitment though.

What you can do is have the fish monger cut the salmon in portions. Then pop them in individual baggies and freeze. I keep salmon portions in the freezer and just chuck the frozen fish directly in the steamer with some veggies.



For eggs, I make buckwheat pancakes. A cup pf buckwheat flour, two teaspoons baking powder, pinch salt. Stir. Separately beat a cup of kefir or buttermilk (I use a goat one) with two eggs. Fold wet into dry and you are good to go. I usually also add chopped or slivered nuts, some cinnamon and some berries (frozen). You can make the batter in the evening and cook in the morning, or make a double batch, cook all the pancakes, freeze individually and pop in toaster in AM before work. You can eat them plain or drizzle a tiny bit of honey or syrup on top.

Mimi1

If you lived on Mountain Dew you would HAVE to live on Ho Hos cause you wouldnt have any teeth left to chew anything else.  LOL

Sorry for butting in...that statement just cracked me up!

AA - have you tried artichoke tapenade on the salmon, then wrap in puff pastry and bake?  What you described sounds delish!

Let me know what you find, and happy celebration!

That is a great reason to celebrate!

Caryn

Purple - be cautious about interpreting the study.  The key words come into play at the bottom recommending further study needs to be done on the assumptions.  

It is a 1996 study - there should have been some newer studies or assumptions made.  Your Dr. might be aware of this study and waiting for the recommended further studies that discuss the original assumptions of the 1996 study.  

As far as being your best investigative research analyser for your condition , it is important to stay on top of the new research being done on any condition you might have.   As much research as I have done, when mentioned to my doctors, he was already aware.  Doctors receive many faxes, email, and updates on the newest research, everyday. 

Hope this helps. 

Purple, In the beginning, I felt like you, a surgeon let my lump go for over a year, even though I told him, after removing a cyst, there is still something there-no worries it is just a scare from removing the cyst. Consequently, my DCIS turned to invasive.  

I was told by a top rated RN administrator, to always stay on top of my health and do not leave it to a doctor.  She was right.  

After my diagnosis, having a strong background in research and statistics, I brought up different studies to my surgeon trying to nail down stats that pertained to me. 

He said to me one day: your chances of living a long time are good to excellent, recurrence risk is either 0 or 100, the studies you are reading are not about you, studies are based on large groups of women who are all different in some way, the stats used to determine survival are very old stats, get on with your life and enjoy living.  Took me back alittle.  But, was very good advice. 

AMP 

Purple - you have a very good diagnois.  I know several people with dx's more advanced than your's who refused all treatment and they are doing very well lumpectomy only.   

HI Purple 32,

Have you checked your pH or body's level of acidity.  Osteoporosis is a side effect of being too acidic.  Also a BIG NO NO for anyone with cancer of any kind is drinking soda, bottled water, reverse osmosis water & distilled water also cause osteoporosis, and city water.  I have read many City Water Quality Reports and they all warn anyone with cancer, along with other conditions, NOT TO DRINK CITY WATER.

Back to the soda and bottled waters - don't drink them.  They are highly acidic.  Soda has the same acidity level as battery acid.  So very bad for any and everyone.  There is more to this than I can explain here.  I have explained it all in detail on Cancer.DrNoreenPicken.com if your interested. 

If you go to the city website you might get your water from, they probably have a page called their Water Quality Report.  Check it and see if they warn cancer sufferers about drinking their water.  As you probably already know, chlorine and fluoride are very unhealthy and actually dangerous for healthy folk and even worse for those who's systems are compromised.

There are a lot of other non-drug approaches you can look at but first check you urine or saliva pH and let me know what you get for results.  My email address is talktonoreen@gmail.com if you want it. You can usually get  pH test strips at a drug store. I will have to check Walmart and price check them.  

That is a good start and jumping off place, if this is a direction you would like to investigate.

DrNoreen

I would greatly appreciate if you would supply links to sources for your comments.  For example, you state that sodas have the same pH as battery acid.  This statement is absolutely false. Pure water has a pH of 7.  Orange juice and soda have a pH of 3. Battery acid has a pH of 0. Spilling soda on a person causes a wet mess.  Pouring battery acid on a person will cause 3rd degree burns.

Since pH is a logarithmic scale, each number represents a 10-fold increase in acidity. Using numbers to illustrate this point.  The higher the number the more acidic the liquid.  http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/Chem_AcidsBasespHScale.shtml

Water  =                         1

Soda    =                10,000

Battery Acid =  10,000,000

Wrong information can have very serious consequences.  Please take care to see that your information is correct before posting. 

If you can't drink city water, bottled water, reverse osmosis water or distilled water, exacty what is left? I agree with the sodas. If I could go back and change anything, it would be to never have lifted a soda to my lips!