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Andrea Barnett Budin · 09-16-2007, 10:45 AM

What's your glucose # in your comprehensive bld tests? Mine was on the high end, even though I gave up sugar in '04 (because it was a *trigger* food for my IBS issue), and because I'd heard about the canser loves sugar thing. I was a major chocoholic. I now won't even take 1 bite, knowing that it is poison for me.

Due to unrelenting hot flashes, I went to an endocrinologist in my desperation. She said high bld sugar could cause hot flashes. I was given a whole panel of tests including a glucose tolerance test (was *gestinal* diabetic, in other words when pregnant 100 and 102 yrs ago). So I am not yet a diabetic but I have very high bld sgr and am on meds for this. Now my bld sgr is normal. Yeah. My hot flashes are still flashing. But -- my canser

is in remission. SO I GUESS LIFE IS SWEET... Pun intended.
Andi

09-16-2007, 10:45 AM	#17
Andrea Barnett Budin Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: LAND OF YES! w/home in Boca Raton, Florida Orig from L.I., N.Y. Ever hovering IN THE NOW... Posts: 1,904	High Blood Sugar What's your glucose # in your comprehensive bld tests? Mine was on the high end, even though I gave up sugar in '04 (because it was a trigger food for my IBS issue), and because I'd heard about the canser loves sugar thing. I was a major chocoholic. I now won't even take 1 bite, knowing that it is poison for me. Due to unrelenting hot flashes, I went to an endocrinologist in my desperation. She said high bld sugar could cause hot flashes. I was given a whole panel of tests including a glucose tolerance test (was gestinal diabetic, in other words when pregnant 100 and 102 yrs ago). So I am not yet a diabetic but I have very high bld sgr and am on meds for this. Now my bld sgr is normal. Yeah. My hot flashes are still flashing. But -- my canser is in remission. SO I GUESS LIFE IS SWEET... Pun intended. Andi __________________ Andi BB '95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive... '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...