For Informed People Using Alternative Treatments

my friend now cancer free from lung cancer 30 years or so with the gerson therapy, no liver stuff, said that the coffee enemas which I think he did himself withorganic coffee, said it opens the bile ducts.  when eventually he began hemmorahging he got surgery

I guess you're talking about richard, I think his lungs from his mouth.  that's the way alexandra david neel spied on a pair of tibetan monks in the forest attempting to bring that on

Juneping :you are brave to drink those teas out of the bag

juneping - Thanks for sharing that with us. I see my oncologist in February sometime, so I will ask about what happens if one stops.

Hi -   seaweed versus chlorella algaepwder, which is richest in iodine - jod?

just googled pioneer07.  he seems to be a pharmacy student or a pharmacist

Does anyone take Ashwagandha?

Light, I had promised to attend the nutrition webinar and report back. At the last minute I had a meeting at the same time that I could not cancel. However, I got an email from them, and by the 23rd, you can listen to it online:

"If you were unable to listen today or would like to hear the webinar again, you may listen to a recording online in our MP3 Library starting on January 23. If your computer does not have a media player installed, you may download a free copy at the website of Adobe Flash Player or Windows Media Player."

Hi June, My ER+ was 88 and my Pr+ was 80...so, still pretty high.  He did not say I was weak, though.  Maybe also has something to do with the energy test and tongue test he does?

Also, forgot to mention that Dr. Wong said that if I decide to go the Tamoxifen route that I would need to take a Tamoxifen responsiveness test...I didn't know that existed?

I believe ashwaghanda is one of the herbs in my tea?

I wouldn't go near any seaweed now...

Just a personal note.  I took Tamoxifen for 5 years the first time I had BC 12 years ago (so stopped about 7 years ago) and then I got BC in my other breast (diagnosed 2013).  I am not sure if it would have helped to take the Tamoxifen for 10 years but I did ask my Oncologist that when I saw him the first time for this diagnosis and he said the research about the 10 years vs. 5 years is new but didn't disagree that it may have helped me to take it 10 years since I was so young the first time (29).  Who knows! I am trying not to focus on what might have been - just moving forward. 

I totally understand other survivors who underwent chemo being thrown off to discover there are others out there who chose not to do it. Who would want to have to even consider that you might not have had to do that?? I wouldn't want to be in that position.    To be honest, the first time around for me it really didn't feel like a choice because I had three doctors telling me to do it or I could die (for a stage 1 tumor - I think not).  Anyway, had I not had the personal experiences with my mothers hell of treatments and my increadibly stubborn nature I am not sure I wouldn't have done chemo too.  A lot of time doctors don't really present treatments as a choice - more like a next step.  It makes me sad. 

Contrarily - those of us who chose chemo are sometimes vilified by the alternative people about how could we put such poison into our system?  For someone who is Her2neu +, Herceptin is truly a miracle - "the golden gate to health" - and is a monoclonal antibody, not a toxic drug, specifically targeting the type of cancer that we have.  studies have shown that it is even more effective when combined with those "toxic poisons" - like Taxotere and Carboplatin - so that is what I chose to do.   Herceptin has changed the outcome for people like me from our cancer being a death sentence to being a diagnosis we can live with.  Sometimes western medicine is wonderful.

lightandwind,

Totally agreed. It's kind of meaningless to come here and proclaim how wonderful chemo is. We all know that and we made another choice. 

There's a lady went to the conventional thread and trash conventional treatment, she was not welcome at all, and that's an understatement. At least here most women (for the ones I read) are respectful. Wonder why ppl are into chemo and coming in here, for what??

we don't go into conventional treatment thread and tell them how wonderful alternative treatment is......it's so odd. i don't have that much time to wonder why ppl made their choice, i want to spend the time to do things made me happy (not causing other agony..lol)