Any treatment that works? Please help

Research Essiac Tea and Goji Juice. My mother-in-law was just diagnosed a month ago at Stage 3/4…not sure. She just started chemo as strictly a palliative treatment. The cancer has already metastized. Also go to http://www.cancertruth.net and order the book by Ty Bollinger. It has many alternative and complimentary therapies.
This book is more about late stage cancer but if someone can start early enough, maybe you can slow it down.

Since your partner is late stage it is a perfect compliment to the battle you and all of us are fighting here. The way I look at it is this… once traditional medicine can’t offer a solution to us, then anything else we try is a bonus. I believe that our Creator/Creatrix made many natural things available to us long before there were doctors, hospitals and drug companies. Obviously some of these natural gifts were effective, or we wouldn’t be here right now.

We chose these two because they don’t interfere with traditional treatment and don’t require a doctor to administer. There is some indication that Essiac can shrink tumors. Goji has been shown to increase white blood cells and both remedies are used to minimize the effects of chemo if someone takes that.

That’s what I did and we are using the above two remedies and do seem to be controlling her pain. She’s only been using them for 10 days but we’re hopeful it will give her at least a better quality of remaining life, whatever that is. She is feeling much better since starting these two things and I am hoping her blood results show it’s helping.

My prayers are with everyone here. Until now, I have never had a loved one go through terminal cancer and this is so hard. I am very scared about how it will play out.

If you like what you read, then I’ll post where I get them if that’s allowed. Otherwise, you can email me and I’ll give the sources to you. There are a lot of overpriced sources of these remedies and no one should have to pay so much.

Best of luck to everyone here. I’ll be posting and reading often.

maureen

When I first started treatment about 3-4 months ago, I thought I would be doing myself a favor by combining some alternative treatments (diet and supplements) with traditional (chemoembolization).

I do not want to put down alt treatments – we all could prob use a change in diet and I think that supplements are helpful – but I ended up losing too much weight too quickly and it severely effected my mood. I went into depression and if you are feeling sad/depressed, it is EXTREMELY hard to fight at all – traditionally or alternatively.

So my advice, for what it is worth, is go forward with diets and supplements only in so far as you can handle it. Any one of them might (or might not) work, but most importantly if you lose faith in them, come back to the things (foods) that make you happy and keep on weight.

I had a resection in 2004, and a recurrence in 2006 that was inoperable and treated with radiation and Xeloda– it shrank the tumors but they’re still “there.”

Since then, my treatment has been weekly acupuncture (to boost my immune system and strengthen my liver) and many supplements (especially IP6, ginseng, and milk thistle.) Recently I have also started practicing qigong, which I feel has been immensely helpful.

I have to very respectfully disagree with Lisa about the usefulness of alternative treatments– I have had very good results with them. I think each person needs to find the treatment that feels right for them.

Wishing you all the best!

Kristin