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Sorry to hijack this thread and if already discussed, but do they not have drugs to help with the intense side effects of chemo including nausea? Or does it not work much at all?
I remember a friend telling me long ago that when his brother had cancer, smoking weed helped with his appetite.
There are lots of options. As in most things, response is individual. Not all side effects end up being equally intense for everyone. The side effects are temporary too, but again, what "temporary" means for one person may be different for another. Consider hair loss. For some, they lose just about all their body hair, (eyebrows, eyelashes) not just head hair. Others only lose some, or it thins. My head hair was already growing back before the last infusion. Others are totally without hair for a month or so after chemo ends. Consider nausea; mine lasted a couple of days and my appetite was fine after that. A work colleague getting the same protocol couldn't eat at all for twice that long. I didn't have other intestinal problems, she did.
Oh no, I don't believe in any of those alternative healing methods. Just because I think chemotherapy is terrible doesn't that lemon juice diets and coffee enemas are the way to go.
There simply isn't any good method to treat cancer coming from traditional medicine. It is what it is.
I think we’ve talked about this before, but I wish you’d at least look into it a little bit, because even though it’s difficult to cure cancer with alternative methods, it’s quite possible to slow it down and I know because I chose the alternative route from a stage III breast cancer dx and I’m still here and still stage III and I’m not even all that dedicated to my diet as I should be. Stopping sugar consumption was a huge help but I still eat bread and other carbs that I should be laying off of. I will say that alt medicine goes way beyond lemon juice and coffee enemas.
Also, be aware that just because you are walking away from chemo, it’s not an automatic death sentence so I wish that people would stop telling you that. So much of this is in the mind and you can learn to control your own thoughts thru meditation. You may consider it new age hooey dooey and it’s true that it may or may not add one minute to your life but it will add value to your life and help your transition, should it come to that. You don’t want to go out of this life angry at this world, which I’m catching a hint of in your posts.
To those who are battling cancer, please be aware that I’m not bragging or saying that I’m right and you all are wrong. I’m doing what felt right for me and trying to give hope to those who may have run out of conventional treatment options or who are way uncomfortable with those that are available to them. You have to do what feels right for you because the placebo and nocebo effects are powerful medicine in themselves.
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