Monday club lol

LOL on my nature doc June--yes I like him too--he's a Chinese man who uses acupuncture meridians to dx.  

On the hyperthermic stuff, the only places that have clinics that I know of are a new one in Canada and around six in Germany.  Several Hollywood stars have gone to Germany to have tx, and Farrah Fawcett went to a clinic there but did not do the hyperthermic tx and she went the conventional route first.    

I think it's good that you're going to SK--they do seem to be more up on integrated meds than most and have a great database of herbs and supplements on their website with the studies that tell just what is known or suspected, and how they may interact with chemo.  Meanwhile you'll want to concentrate on boosting your immune system and the exercise will help.  

piper - in terms of theory, the hyperthermic treatment really make sense to me, but gosh, it does seem like it's not even available in the US. sigh., boy exercise, i am a couch potato by nature so exercise is very tough for me. i have a gym in my bldg but i found it so boring. i started doing those youtube aerobic thing, i enjoy it more. so we'll see. i live so far so not sure what to do after i start working again. 

btw is there any of you on disability? my onco was telling me it's tough to get granted if i do opt for chemo or radiation. sigh....it's so wrong on so many levels. i don't know the result yet, will see. 

oh sorry about the AD/HD, my ex is an scattered brain so i could understand a little how frustrating that is for you. well, he's not frustrated, its me who's so annoyed at looking for stuff as a life style. after surgery, the anesthesia fried my brain a little as well. like i am reading BCO and saw something i wanted more info so i clicked a new tab to google, once the new tab is there i forgot what i was going to google. it happened before it's kind of normal sometimes but now it's like often.

OK, I was just about to ask also June.  That does make sense.  And it makes a lot more sense to put the ovaries to sleep or have them removed than to put yourself thru the chemo, which is not that great for the rest of your body.  

Red, you asked about some other alternative strategies, so I'll start with DIM, since that's what we're talking about here.  It's a broccoli compound that is supposed to help balance your hormones to a healthier ratio since there are actually 3 main components to estrogen and some are good but others are not so good if out of balance.  (I hope I'm saying this right as I'm quoting from memory!)  DIM puts those in balance.  Flax seeds are one of the best phytoestrogenic plants around and will usurp the receptors on ER+ tumors but won't feed them.  I dip my finger into a little jar of them and just chew on them slowly and it keeps my mouth entertained better than gum and has broken my habit of chewing on the inside of my cheeks.  Oh and of all things, blackstrap molasses is supposed to be one of the best home remedies to help with fibroids but I need to be more consistent.  The little I've used has not thrown me out of ketosis yet and I actually like the taste--will help with blood count too.  

Of course I told you about my ketogenic diet and ALA is supposed to help lower the blood sugar as well, and olive leaf extract.  Both of these supplements will nourish the immune system and both will beat back tumors as well as the million other great things they do.  Ubiquinol is thought to beat back tumors too but you need to take doses of at least 400 mg along with omega 3 oil to see anti-cancer benefit--I'm doing that.  I'm taking nettles to nourish my blood and immune system.  These are what I take in addition to the homeopathics and super vitamins that the nature doc gave me.  One old fashioned remedy I've been trying is massaging my breasts with poke root oil and that may be helping. I plan to get some maitake mushroom and ginseng soon--both also great immune system builders.   Oh and sulforaphane b/c that will actually kill stem cells and anyone taking chemo should be taking that as well.  

So you all may be wondering if this is helping?  I can't quite tell yet.  My tumor was never a lump anyway--more of a thickened spot on my left breast.  It does seem to show more when I look at it now,  though when I feel it, it seems smaller.  Since I've lost 15 lbs it could be that or maybe my eye is more trained to see it now.  Or it really is bigger.  My nipple was pointing due west there for awhile but it seems to be pointing more in the straight direction now.  I talk to nature doc on Monday and will be asking some pointed questions about how we know when it's time for surgery.  I'm almost 3 mo out from dx right now.  One thing about natural cures is that you can't be in a hurry or freak out when it doesn't immediately go away--it's not growing and that's the main thing for now until I get this biological train (terrain lol)  turned around.  My best case scenario of course is that I'd never have to have surgery or treatments but I'm open to the idea that I probably will so hoping for the best and planning for the worst.  Kind of, since the worst case scenario is that I'd have to do it all.  Still though I think it will be better if I feel that I have some choice in the matter.  

Oh gosh June, I'm strong ER/PR+ too so I"ll probably be under the same injunction.  Well eat those flax seeds then.  The Budwig protocol involves eating flax oil on cottage cheese and I can't imagine anything that sounds more unpleasant (linseed oil is made from flax) but it's supposed to work well and I would imagine that it would work best for hormone + cancers. My problem with that is I've reduced dairy quite a lot.  I will ask my nature doc on Monday about tamoxifen, but he is putting me under the care of an onc that he works well with, so probably won't answer that.    

Oh and Red I've been missing Jodi off here too but I keep seeing her on facebook so I know all is well.  

piper - i think you should still ask your naturopath about taking the tamxo. the worst is a big fat no from him. you never know what they have in mind about tamxo. 

red - sorry about your FIL, may he RIP.....(((hugs)))

i've been reading this book "what doctors might not tell you about BC". there's one section talked about the pharmaceutical needs the patent so they stopped using natural herbs to make medicine. that's why most med have side effects. they actually care more about how to make more bucks than saving lives.  

piper - thanks for the update. i am very happy for you. i can't wait to meet my integrative doc bc i want to know how he can help me. oh i was reading on another thread this lady mentioned biofeedback scan, did your nature doc do a scan like that? she said it can detect cancer better than a pet scan. she's a stage 4 and has been NED for few years now. 

are you going to switch to another kind of filling? what did your doc recommend? i am curious to know. oh drinking 1/2 cup of olive oil sounds pretty challenging. pls tell us how that goes.

16 pounds is quite a lot. congrats!!it must be very encouraging with the glowing skin.

piper - thanks for sharing about the pastor, i will def be even more careful about my dental health. i didn't know silver is bad though. what should we use then? i've heard gold supposed to be better than silver...

red - thanks for sharing about the flax. i also red coconut oil is good to block hormones. i bought a small bottle to try. i tried to spread it on the bread... didn't like it at all. i'll try to use it for something else. ppl use it for their coffee but i don't usually drink coffee. so....

i didn't do much on V-day. by myself. it's quite comfortable. went out for a movie w my friend on saturday. robocop...it's quite entertaining.

Hey Red, I missed you.  I miss Jodi from this thread but keeping an eye on her.  I kind of fell apart this weekend.  Went to the dance last night and had a great time and then got really emotional afterwards--the worst time I've had since I first learned of my dx--fortunately I had a good friend there to catch me.  I 90% trust that I'm doing the right thing here but there are dark moments and I suspect that would be so no matter what method of healing I'd chosen.  

Yes, have heard this about flax but there is lots of confusion and for now my holistic doc recommends it b/c it binds to tumor receptor sites and prevents the harmful estrogen in your body from latching on.  Since the plant estrogen is weaker, it is less likely to feed the tumor.  I did not know this about oil of oregano and good thing you told me b/c I keep a small bottle available for infections and such.  Used it on a very infected finger of one of my students the other day and the next day his finger was much better.  They cannot afford to go to a doc so I felt good about being able to help him.  

June, when I said silver fillings, what I was really referring to is mercury fillings--they are about 50% mercury and look silver. From wiki:   "A 2003 monograph on mercury toxicity from the World Health Organization concluded that:     Studies on humans and animals have demonstrated that dental amalgam contributes significantly to mercury body burden in humans with amalgam fillings."  

The reason you don't see more problems is that some people are able to detox mercury from their bodies with relative ease, but I suspect I'm not one of them.  When I was about 10 or 11 we broke a thermometer and played for over an hour with the mercury bubbles--it was great fun.  But when I try hard to remember, that is about the time I began to have some really dangerous and almost fatal allergy symptoms and these have gone on for years--I've ended up in an ER more than once.  And yes Red, I will have to pay for at least part of this, but I suspect that the crumbling fillings will be paid by insurance--you have to prove that there is a need for replacement. 

red - thanks for sharing. i took a look, very interesting and i will check more often for receipts.

red - good luck on the rad!! how many do you need to do?

flax seeds are easily oxidized...so make sure you only ground the portion you are going to consume. read it from the alt thread.

have you guys heard of Dr. Max Gerson? he's the grandfather of holistic approach of treating chronic deceases, those coffee enemas and juicing were originally his ideas. i saw on netflix two movies, the gensor miracle, and the beautiful truth.

piper - did your nat doc mention anything about coffee enemas? i am curious but not brave enough to try it.

piper - thanks for the quote, very true, i believe it.

i've been watching some documentaries on netflix and read about doctor gerson, that amalgam is the worst choice to fill our tooth cavities. after i did all those research, it just all makes sense that we need to detox and go organic, low fat/carb and high fiber. it's so difficult to live a proper life style in this "modern" society. best luck on getting those filling out and pls keep us posted.

there's a documentary about tapped water, and all the bottled water on the market (amercian brands) are municipal water, NOT those pure spring water they wanted us to believe. and it's free, so their profit is x00%. plus the toxic plastic bottle....OMG i cannot believe what kind of world we live in.