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In reply to the discussion: Screw that med. [View all]

Evoman

(8,040 posts)
2. Did it do any good while it was torturing you?
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 12:15 PM
Jul 2013

Did you see any shrinkage or lack of progression?

Hardly seems worth it if it isn't working at all anyways.

Right now, I'm back of Folfiri + Avastin, like you were. Dunno if you saw my last blog post, but my new oncologist gave me about a year to a year and a half before I'm toast, even on chemo.

I've thought about stopping chemo altogether, but he said if I took that option, I was looking at 6 to 8 months.

Who the fuck knows. I'm staying on the chemo for now, and for some reason, I'm handling it better than I did before. I still have horrible fatigue and I'm unable to work or even go out for a walk, but I'm living in a city where I have a lot more support from family and friends than I had in the last city I lived.

I've also started drinking Dandelion tea. I'm a big ass skeptic when it comes to natural cures and stuff like that, but there is some science behind the Dandelion tea, and it tastes pretty okay, so I'm trying it out. Also gonna start eating some weirdo mushrooms a relative of a friend of mine start taking for his cancer (he has brain cancer, and mets in just about every organ imaginable) and he has been doing great. Given two months, and he is still here two years later. Might as well, right?

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