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This is one of the hardest things I’ve had to write. As many of you know, Cancer Warriors started because of my mum. Everything I’ve shared here, everything I’ve learned it was all to help her and others along the way. She fought so hard. Even through years of mental health struggles, trauma, loss, and eventually cancer, she kept going. She changed her lifestyle, quit smoking, improved her diet, stayed active, and never stopped trying even when things were hard mentally. We had hope. Real hope. She had just started a new protocol we believed in through Astron Health. And then everything changed very suddenly. She developed acute gastrointestinal symptoms, was admitted to hospital, and within a short period things escalated in a way that still doesn’t fully make sense to me. The initial diagnosis was ischaemic colitis, and she received treatment with IV fluids and anticoagulation. Then: - her markers improved - her pain improved - her circulation improved But at the same time: - inflammation was rising and remained extremely high (CRP 14 on admission, then 400 later) - her oxygen levels worsened before later improving - and concerns we raised about possible contributing factors were not fully explored at the time, despite the acute onset of symptoms, confirmed COVID infection, hypoxia, and rising oxygen requirements which raised concerns about possible severe COVID-related lung involvement. Over time, things progressed to a bowel obstruction, and we lost her. The two CT scans during her admission showed a very different picture overtime, with significant progression. I was there every day. I stayed in the hospital for 14 days. I never left. I slept next to her. I asked questions, I researched, I pushed where I could. And now I’m left with a lot of unanswered questions. Questions that I feel I owe it to her to understand. There were also periods where her inflammatory markers were extremely high and her oxygen levels dropped significantly. This raised questions for me about whether all possible causes of her deterioration were fully explored at the time, and whether earlier or different intervention could have made a difference.
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@Bernardo Henriques I don’t know but they recommended a statin and we were under a Dr. (integrative) she did not want to take that because liver numbers went up. I’m not sure why she did but she did because the Dr highly recommended her to do that then in a couple weeks is when her liver numbers skyrocketed. They did a biopsy of liver and she did have cancer there too but thought it was from medicines? They really didn’t know. So then she stopped everything because she got scared no longer trusted the integrative Dr. Hind sight, wish she just stopped stain and menbedazole and Started other meds after her hospitalization. She started w/ Leading Edge clinic but was in and out of hospital so much that it was hard to start anything. Then it went to her brain Leptomeningeal. This is rare, but fatal with and w/o treatment. Not sure what integrative medicine would have worked on that. My daughter wanted to make sure she gave it all and tried every possible treatment with SOC and w/ metabolic. She would read that metabolic would be more effective with SOC. I don’t know if that was or is true.
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@Bernardo Henriques yes all that is true. Dr Seyfried is not in agreement to use statins I know Jane was but not sure if she’s backing it now. Anyway it is what it is. That was our experience. It’s just hard because we rehash everything we’ve done for the last year and wonder what we could have done differently. We just did the best with what we knew. We’re just sad about the outcome as you are as well. It’s a nasty disease it’s so painful to watch your loved ones.
Journey
This is a difficult journey. I haven’t shared much, Ive read quite a few of comments. I’ve been on here because my daughter was fighting cancer. She gave it all she had. She did keto, hyperbaric, red light therapy, combined it with SOC. Maki’s Meekim, everyone. And anyway, yesterday she breathed her last breath and entered eternity. Our hearts are broken, there was nothing on earth she did that stopped it. However she had a quality life up to August 8 I think, then things just kept coming. Somehow a positive challenge that could come out - I would love to see integrative medicine and SOC work together and wonder if anyone would have an idea of how we could move forward and work towards this? Don’t know what else to say but I do pray for you all fighting this disease and am grateful for every success story. And am so sad the ones that have been heartbroken and lost their loved ones. It is truly gut wrenching and very sad God bless you all!
For my mum — and for this community
I never imagined I would be writing this. My mum passed away, and I don’t yet have the words to describe the emptiness she’s left behind. She wasn’t just my mother — she was my best friend, my anchor, my reason for fighting, and the heart behind everything we built here. This community was created for her. She carried more than most people ever see. She lived with bipolar disorder. She carried childhood trauma. She endured a painful divorce, the loss of both her parents, a cancer diagnosis, the death of Pepper — our family boxer — and the loss of Albert, our family’s closest friend. All of this happened within the last seven years. And yet — she kept going. She walked at least 10,000 steps a day. She swam three times a week. She went to church every Sunday. She worked tirelessly on the house. She quit smoking after her diagnosis. She tried carnivore. She cut out sugar. And most importantly: She kept our family together. She fought. She cared. She loved. Even when depression weighed heavily on her will to live, she chose to fight — not because it was easy, but because she loved us. She fought for us when her mind told her to give up. That is courage. We were hopeful. So hopeful. She had just started the Astron Health protocol — only one week in — and we believed we had time. Previous scans had been relatively reassuring, showing stable, very slow-growing, localised disease in the peritoneum and a coeliac lymph node, with no organ spread. Her CRP was 4 — within the normal range. Then everything changed — fast. She developed sudden, severe gastrointestinal pain, vomiting, and diarrhoea. We rushed to the hospital. A CT scan showed ischemic colitis. A mouth swab also confirmed COVID. She was put on palliative care, given fluids and heparin. Her circulation improved. Lactate came down. Symptoms improved. Objectively, things were getting better. But the narrative never changed. Despite improving vitals, improving markers, and improving symptoms, they continued to insist on bowel necrosis — even when the evidence did not clearly support it. At the same time, her CRP (an inflammation marker) rose rapidly from 4 (normal) just weeks earlier, to 14 on admission, to 150 the following day, and eventually to 455 at its peak. She developed rising oxygen requirements, hypoxia, and what appeared to be a clear systemic inflammatory storm — yet COVID pneumonitis was repeatedly dismissed.
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So sorry for your loss. You dedicated your life to helping her. You have memories that you’ll treasure forever prayers for comfort in this loss.
A little good news for once.
Just had my scan result and I’ve managed to shrink my largest met by 5mm from 65mm, a lung met also had a bit shaved off and my pancreas met looks thinner but the same length! What did I do? Well I added in fbz to the protocol 3-4 months before the scan and I added iscador Qu by subcutaneous injections for 4 weeks before the scan. A previous IV mistletoe therapy for an 5 week period gave me stability in the next scan. Mistletoe is an immune system mobiliser If you can do that and have some sauna’s/fevers I think you might get things working better. I’m carrying on with another course of iscador qu and will try and keep it going for 3 months. My oncologist went ape about it but I think it’s having an effect.
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That is great news!
Liver function
Does anyone have any experience with breast cancer metastatic to the liver?
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I’m the mom of a daughter with cancer and searching as much information that I can find.

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