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Re: Boosting Your Immune System - share your ideas
I do say -- these supplements were suggested by Dr. Gaynor for me -- ER-/PR- HER2+... ALSO I am post menopausal. Age 53 when given this list. Tailor it for YOU specifically, as best you can. And definitely go with what your GUT / INSTINCTS / Inner Voice tell you to do...
So yes, Juls, you must consider that you are ER+...
DR. GAYNOR HAS OTHER BOOKS WHICH GIVE YOU HIS SUPPLEMENT SPIEL THAT YOU MAY WANT TO PERUSE.
Your reluctance is understandable.
Mainstream docs do NOT like supplements. They don't understand them, have knowledge of them, trust them. Our med schools do not teach about these. It's kind of alternative / integrative / ancient Eastern thinking...
You are not going to get an OKAY let alone that sounds great from your docs. No docs (brilliant, top of their game, whatever) are into this stuff.
Though my fav onc has included a once a wk, or maybe once a mnth, class on these. His registered nurse is into them and may be pushing him. He's been my onc since 1995 and even though he tells me all the time that he tells all his patients and other docs about me and my miraculous survival, he still isn't a fan of supplements. He just remains mute at this point about them. After all, can't argue with success...
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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...
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