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Old 11-18-2013, 03:00 PM   #21
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Re: Vitamin D & Breast Cancer 50% - 70% risk reductions - authoritative must watch vi

Breast Cancer Prevention - Grassroots Health 10-8-11

Another fascinating video on vitamin D and breast cancer.

And to vitamin D you can add iodine, Omega 3 and 6 imbalances, mineral deficiencies for starters.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPNCxFyU3mc#t=16

http://www.grassrootshealth.net/

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Old 11-18-2013, 05:24 PM   #22
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Re: Vitamin D & Breast Cancer 50% - 70% risk reductions - authoritative must watch vi

Such a great thread! Sooo important! I have been fully aware. Well, not as much as you, R.B., but having been taking D for many yrs.

I take 10,000 -- 5 days a week. Total 50,000 a week.

And I am @ 48 in the middle of the pack when my blood is tested. I remind my docs to add D and B12 -- cause I take a lot of both and want to keep a check.

I have been told calcium 1200. Is that what you have found, R. B....? I take a soft gel cause I cannot swallow the gigantic pills calcium seems to mostly come in.

So glad you have all this information out there for all to see and understand how essential D is.

All our organs depend on it, and many are unknowingly deficient.

It seems as we age our body's demand for D increases. I am grateful to be aging, and keenly aware my organs are calling out to me for MORE.

My husband has been taking D for a few yrs at my insistence. He's not a supplement person, but even he had heard/read of this essential pill!

He's also on Omega, Carnitine, Alpha Lipoic Acid, CoQ10 -- for his neuropathy pain AND THOSE LAST 3 ESPECIALLY WORK WONDERS! Oh, and I've gotten him on B-12. Probiotic.

Have more to urge him to take, but am glad I've gotten this far... zinc 30, selenium 200 are next on my list...

Thanks as always, R.B.!
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'98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!)
+ good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either...

Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...
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Old 11-27-2013, 06:55 PM   #23
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Re: Vitamin D & Breast Cancer 50% - 70% risk reductions - authoritative must watch vi

Well, I recently had my D and B levels checked. B was fine but D was low, even with taking 2000iu daily for years and years. My level was 20ng/mL. So now I am on 50,000iu, one every three weeks. Since I took the first one last Fri night I have not had any of the leg cramps that have plagued me since my first chemo. I think I see a connect here.

So RB, do you think my current dose is sufficient??

Thanks
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April 25, 2012: ER+(5%), PR-, HER2+++
May 10, 2012: BRCA 1,2 Negative
May 23, 2012: MUGA Scan EF 70%
May 31, 2012: B/L Mastectomy. 2/2 nodes removed and CLEAR!! Power Port placed. 2 Drains. 2 Expanders placed
June 5, 2012: Drains OUT! Ahhhh..
June 12, 2012: Final Pathology Report, .8x.3cm tumor. Micromets to 1 node .35mm under cytokeratin staining. Stage 2A. Onc says "you are lucky to have found this early"
July 10, 2012: Started 6 rounds of TCH with weekly H
Sept 5, 2012: MUGA 65%
Sept 20, 2012: CAT scan of brain clear!
Oct 23, 2012: LAST TC! AMEN! Continue Herceptin every three weeks until July 2013.
Nov 19, 2012: Port out!
Dec 5, 2012: Started radiation
Dec. 10, 2012: MUGA 65%
Dec. 13, 2012: Turned 40. BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!
Jan 23, 2013: Last radiation. Told I am NED. Continue Herceptin every three weeks till July 2013.
Jan 29, 2013: Begin 5 years of Tamoxifen.
Feb 28, 2013: CT Scan with Contrast of lungs. 5mm and 4mm nodules of unknown origin. Rescan in 3 months.
Mar 6, 2013: EF 60%
May 8, 2013: Exanders out, implants implanted...abd. lipo and fat moved up. Girls are looking good!
June 3, 2013: CT Scan with Contrast of lungs. Previous nodules gone. New nodules (2mm and 3mm) found. Rescan in 3 months. So sorry I opened this can of worms...
June 11, 2013: EF 60%
June 25, 2013: Last Herceptin. wow...
Aug 20, 2013: Tumor markers within normal limits. Xray to sore left ribs shows no disease or fractures.
Sept 9, 2013: CT of lungs shows no disease. Closing this can of worms and moving on.
Nov 20, 2013: Tumor markers within normal limits. Severe Vit D deficiency, started on prescription Vit. D. Blaming chemo for this.
Feb 2014: Tumor markers within normal limits.
May 2014: Tumor markers within normal limits. Graduated to twice yearly onc appts.
Oct 2014: Tumor markers within normal limits.
May 2015: Tumor markers WNL. Bone density scan fine. Bone scan and xray of ribs shows "something" 4th right rib. Could be healed fracture but if it is healed why does it hurt?
Nov 2015: Tumor markers WNL. Follow up bone scan clear.
Feb 2016: Syncope! WTF? Dizzy too. Brain scan clear, ECHO EF 60%, Halter Monitor shows heart is fine. Viral? I will never know.
June 2016: Tumor markers WNL.
Oct 2016: Stabbing pain right eye. Long story short, trigeminal neuralgia.
Nov 2016 Brain MRI clear.
Jan 2017: Tumor markers WNL, still getting weird pain right rib area, and sometimes right upper chest. Xray x2, Bone Scan, Breast MRI all clear. Scar tissue? Rads. I may never know.
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