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Re: Is Fatigue a Sign of Mets?
Ask to have your red blood cell magnesium, ferritin, zinc, copper and ceruloplasim levels checked.
Low magnesium and zinc levels will affect your ability to sleep.
Low ferritin can cause fatigue. Regular blood checks for anemia can miss iron deficiency.
Low zinc affects pancreatic enzyme production which reduces your ability to absorb nutrients.
High copper inhibits zinc absorption and low zinc elevates copper levels both of which are known to be pro-cancerous and found often in breast cancer patients.
These have all been checked and followed by my naturopathic oncologist but any lab can check them, you just need someone to order the test. Understanding how to correct imbalances is best done with a practitioner of integrative medicine.
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- Dx 2/14 3b HER2+/HR- left breast, left axilla, internal mammary node (behind breast bone). Neoadjuvant TCHP 3/14-7/2. PCR 8/14 LX and SND. 10/21-12/9 Proton therapy to chest wall.
- Dx 7/20/15 cerebellar met 3.5x5cm HER2+/HR-/GATA3+ 7/23/15 Craniotomy.
- 7/29/15 bone scan clear. 8/3/15 PET clean scan. LINAC SRS (5 fractions) Sept 2015. 9/17/15 CSF NED, 9/24/15 CSF NED, 11/2/15 CSF NED.
- 10/27/15 atypical uptake in right cerebellum - inflammation?
- 12/1/15 Leptomeningeal dx. Starting IT Herceptin.
- 1/16 - 16 fractions of tomotherapy to cerebellum, break of IT Herceptin during rads, resume at 100 mg weekly
- 3/2016 - stable scan
- 5/2016 stable scan
- 7/2016 pseudoprogression?
- 9/2016 more LM, start new chemo protocol and IV therapy treatment with HBOT
- 11/2016 Cyberknife to temporal lobe, HBOT just prior
- 12/2016 - lesions starting to show shrinkage
- 8/2017 - Stable since Dec 2016. Temporal lobe lesion gone.
- Using TCM, naturopathic oncology, physical therapy, chiro, massage, medical qigong, and energetic healing modalities in tandem. Stops at nothing.
- Mother of 2 boys - ages 7 and 10 (8/2017) and a lovely partner with lots to live for.
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