For Informed People Using Alternative Treatments

jojo, thanks for the link. I also like their website as well. Very informative. Took me few days to read thru the site and found the info I needed. 

Kireeus,

Thank you for the imagery. It is a powerful way to approach things. My craving for alcohol has subsided some from the intensity I felt at the time i wrote. For now, I am recognizing that I want to have an occasional glass of wine and not to fight it. 

I am thinking about following some other advise I received and go off on a ten-day meditation retreat. I am recognizing that I need to get more into the mind/body arena the more likely i will be in a position to step away alcohol. I am surprised by how i am about tit. I have stepped away from alcohol for a year after a head injury. it was a no brainer then. but it was also only for a year. 

As for the mcp--i had previously tried what you suggested, but was still not getting the powder to sufficiently dissolve. I now use a straw to stir and drink, so at least i don't have a big hunk of powder at the end.

meditation and yoga have been great place of refuge. 

~P

this really get me thinking hard. i don't take vit E but i do take supplements. with all these info floating out there, it's very diff to really feel great about what to take and what not. anyone else is taking supplements??

olive leaf decoction I make myself rom dry olive leafs from frontier, bee pollen granules.  not sure the last is good, perhaps too hormonal don';t know

FYI my primary Doctor left her practice earlier this month so I have been randomly doing google searches for her to see if I could find her practicing medicine  anywhere near by me because I really liked her.  Today I saw an announcement that she opened up her own "Alternative Medicine" place in town!  It appears she got tired of some of the conventional medicine's ways of treating patients (or that is what I inferred from her website statement    I am considering going to her even though it would be out of pocket because as I have stated before I don't have a naturopath near me and per her website she offers special treatments for cancer patients.  Very interesting. 

The study I posted earlier also mentioned NAC besides Vitamin E. 

hjpz - i totally understand what you said. it's a lot of years to become a doctor but they don't really know how the body works, just how to treat the deceases. it's kind of sad and f**ked up the way it is. there's a pill for everything. after reading new2bc link, i am rethinking of taking my supplements as well. i am eating almost everything organic, do i really need supplements?...

hjpz - Right? The OB/GYN I saw said, "I read they're suggesting 10 years instead of 5 for Tamoxifen. You know it increases your risk for uterine cancer. But it's usually caught early."  How reassuring! Ugh.

Falleaves, I may be absolutely alone in this, but my philosophy is that as cancer cells are faster growing, faster reproducing, greedier and grabbier than normal cells, they will therefore demand first dibs on any nutrients they can find.  I wish I'd done more nutritionally before diagnosis, but since radiation, when they discouraged antioxidants that might promote cellular repair in those naughty cells, I've only taken vitamin D and a multivitamin, and try to keep my protein intake moderate.  At this point, my focus has moved from making my body as healthy as I possibly can to making any leftover cancer cells as unhappy as I can.  Reluctantly, I've added calcium for my bones, but, for now at least, I'm taking a very conservative tack and just hoping the magic arimidex pills starve those little buggers .  I've only been on arimidex since April Fool's Day, and after another year or two, I may rethink this.  I know nobody out there (traditional or alternative) seems to be on the same track as me, but I mention this because of your post about the possible Jeckyll and Hyde impact of vitamin E. 

Interesting, Light. Guess I'll have to start making barley soup and adding wheat germ to things. Maybe I'll make an oatmeal, barley, wheat germ, flaxseed, blueberry, gojiberry breakfast porridge!

light - thanks for the article. very helpful. but i decided to take it easy on the supplements. i am doing rainbow diet and low carb...i just think too much supplement might not be the best for me.

many take them I've read here especially DIM         a few minutes ago gary said that there's a study, new I think, that black plum leaves will protect against radiation damage

Juneping, your body converts carbohydrates in general (sugar, honey, bread, potatoes-doesn't matter what kind) to glucose to use them. The only difference between honey & sugar is that honey has a tiny amount of trace minerals. Honey has a sightly lower glycemic index than sugar (55 vs. 68) so it spikes your blood sugar a tad bit less, but not much.

Well I got my CA-125 results back and they were in the normal range.  The OBGYN still wants me to have the ovary removed as well as the tube.  Don't they do biopsies of these types of things?  I know other women have had a biopsy for the same thing.  I think I am going for a second opinion because I asked the nurse if my Tamoxifen could be causing the cyst and she said she had never heard of that and would run it by the doctor on Monday.   

melissa, hjpz - thanks for chiming in. i found it extremely hard to cut carb out of my diet completely. i'll just do it in moderation then. can't live my life just to exist. 

regarding the cyst, oh i hope you get a better picture of the cyst from the 2nd opinion. why can't they just remove it without removing the whole organ?