For a recap, I've been battling stage IV Breast cancer with conventional medicine for a year and 7 months. My cancer came back after a 7 year vacation, into my spine (T5 which is about bra strap level) and my left lung. They have decided I'm stable because I only got a little worse from March's PET scan. I don't want to be stable, I want to kick it out, so I decided to try a different route recently. A friend sent me a link about B17, or Laetrile. I tried at first to do it with just foods that are high in B17, raw apricot kernels, apple seeds, lentils, and chick peas. I got my Laetrile in yesterday and took one last night.
I didn't really think much about how I felt. I got sleepy, but didn't know if it was from the Laetrile or from working hard.
I'm getting ready to go on vacation, and I did 2 loads of laundry and ran a couple errands today. I also packed my clothes for the trip. I realized at about dinner time, that my back hadn't hurt at all today. I realized this because it was just starting to hurt, just a couple hours before the 24 hour mark from taking it last night. I couldn't wait to get my hot shower and take my Laetrile. So, if nothing else, it is helping with the pain, and it's not hydrocodone.
I got a call from my Pharmacy (as a side note). The doctor had put me on a new pill, that I suppose does the same thing that the Herceptin does, block hormones. I had stopped the Herceptin after a year and a half because I was having allergic reactions. The first one was an all over itch. I had stopped the Benydril, so I started it back up. Next I had my tongue swell and interfere with my speech. I'm not taking the chance of anaphylactic shock. So I stopped it. This new pill is a substitute for that. Apparently it's so toxic that my local pharmacy can't accept it. Something about having to be a "special" pharmacy. So they sent it to the closest one, which is over an hour drive. They are going to mail it to me. Not safe enough to have delivered to the pharmacy, but it can go through the mail system? Am I sure I even want to take it?
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