Sorry I am late in responding to this ---am trying to catch up on posts and just read this --- you sound like you just need a good girlfriend to come over and let you scream or like I do .... cry!! :-) Yes, the doctor idea is good too - however I find that the doctors here (maybe its what gets lost in translation as I am not ITALIAN!) but... they seem to just poo-poo my questions and when I tell them I have a headache (migraines if I don't sit down or go to bed) but they seem to behave and comment as though I am making it up. I think honestly for me it is the Herceptin.... as they did not let up after I stopped chemo ... and I didn't do all the drug cocktail you have done, so I have not walked in your shoes, but I do understand that pain is debilitating!
I don't think you are clinically depressed - and I don't think more drugs will help that state. I think its just that combination of all of this therapy --- it is heavy. Don't kid yourself! I've only done a year (see my signature) and I finished Herceptin last week, but now I still have mornings (like yesterday) that I woke up (AGAIN!) with a headache and I found my self in the kitchen making my carrot apple juice (morning coffee for me) and I just couldn't stop crying... no reason, I should be happy, I should feel great but I'm still bummed. Its NORMALE! (I love that word in Italian!) but .... you have to hang in there and try to limit the drugs but some times we need them to stop the pain... so, I know. I have stopped trying pain killers as here in Italy I haven't found anything that really works and so it feels like I am just taking pills for the fun of it - so I just stopped and now, well, I go to bed, or go down to the beach and walk the beach and just sometimes sit and watch the waves and hug my dog. It seems to at least help more than endless pills that don't really dent the headache. I actually (sad but true) have more success with a glass of organic red wine than a handful of aspirin or Advil gel caps --- miss those as I have taken them all and can't buy them here! SHOOT!
But .... I would highly recommend some of the advise on checking the brain MRI (I need to have my doctors really look at mine this next week when I have one scheduled - as I copied and saved Hutch's response above to make sure I don't have this same thing) and .... if you are open to it - maybe trying some of what I am doing with a combination cure of natural and medical medicine... ?
Few books that you might get a lot out of are:
"Cancer Battle Plan Sourcebook" --- (see my list below) and then if you aren't up for reading - and you can order these on line (amazon.com has used copies even for like half price) but "Beating Cancer with Nutrition" is a good one as it has a 30 minute CD with it for a audio overview of the concepts in the book and I found I listened to it a bunch of times and now am digging through the book on my non-headache moments ... or on the beach!
We really can give our bodies enough of the right foods that we can literally help it strengthen and start fighting the cancer on its own... I think you need to really look at nutrition, as it has helped me a lot with energy levels and sleeping better (another issue with our treatments is it messes up sleep and then you feel more like crap every day without good sleep!) also, juicing is an excellent way to get lots of minerals and vitamins into the body without having to eat a barrel of veg raw and digest all that fiber!
Feel free to email me if you want ---
wheelistic@yahoo.com
I am on and off line as we spend about half the week at the sea now --- and I need to figure out some sort of satellite set up for email there as its 40 minutes from a town! UGH!
Few of my favorite sites with loads of information:
http://www.i-amperfectlyhealthy.com/index.html
http://www.cancerfightingstrategies.com/index.html
http://www.carcinomacancer.org/cance...ph-factor.html
www.drday.com
http://www.cancerrd.com/
www.livingfoodsinstitute.com
http://cancermonitor.blogspot.com/20...reatments.html
http://www.creativehealthinstitute.com/wheat_grass.htm
http://www.healthquarters.org/
www.gerson.org
Favorite Books:
o The Cancer Battle Plan Sourcebook (this is the updated version) - by David Frahm
o Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor – by Kris Carr
o Beating Cancer with Nutrition – by Patrick Quillin PhD, RD, CNS
o Eat to Live – by Joel Fuhrman, MD
o The Gerson Therapy – The amazing nutritional program for cancer and other illnesses – by Charlotte Gerson and Morton Walker, DPM
o A Cancer Therapy – Results of Fifty Cases – by Max Gerson, MD
o 50 Essential Things to Do -
Live long and strong –
Karen
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