Re: Shiitake Mushrooms Shrink Tumors/holistic care

[Guest guest]

I am new here and I am very interested in holistic methods. What has been

working for you?

Terri

[Guest guest]

> Hippy,

>

> To be honest, and at the risk of irritating those on

> this list, it seems NO ONE is willing to try the

> holistic approach to beating fibroids or even willing

> to discuss this at all. I have not had any bleeding since Dec. 20th

and as of today am still symptom free.

>

> Why is it so many are so gung ho on surgery? What is

> so important about it? To go in over and over but it

> doesn't really help? Are you all not paying attention

> to what you all are saying?

Cari,

Not paying attention? I think you need to dig deeper into the

archives and read much, much more before making a judgment call like

this. I had fibroids for 16+ years prior to my embolization. I think

that was MORE than long enough to give every holistic healing method

" on the market " a chance to work its magic with my fibroids. Sorry,

but when it came to the long haul of " curing " my fibroids, holistic

treatment just didn't cut the mustard. No offense intended here --

but, I doubt seriously that the short period of time you've described

for your own treatment of fibroids is long enough of a " cure " time for

any of us to carte blanche jump on the bandwagon for holistic

treatment either.

Please understand that when you use absolute language such as " NO ONE "

as in " NO ONE is willing to try the holistic approach... " , you do

yourself and every other woman on this list group a grave disservice

in judging us outright, collectively, and quite blatantly in a manner

which can be construed quite offensively. You truly have no idea what

I or anyone else on this group may have tried in an effort to gain

relief from fibroids and it bothers me terribly to know that in less

than one month (you joined this group on 12/12/03) such a sweeping

generalization would/could be made.

If there was a magic bullet cure (without horrific side effects!) to

fibroids that allowed each and every one of us to avoid surgery

forever, I can just about guarantee that every woman on this group

would be running to get in line for it.

As it stands, there has been research -- good research -- done on

holistic treatment and fibroids. After 6 months, yes, there was

equivalent symptomatic relief for the women in the study. However,

the holistic measures required were expensive and far more work and

horrifically time consuming on a daily basis than the majority of the

women in the study could sustain over the long haul. So, most went on

to some other curative treatment instead. We don't know of those

holistic measures would have sustained relief over more than a 6 month

period -- few women were willing to continue on the holistic regimen

designed.

Please spend a bit more time on reading the full history of women on

this list group before making such sweeping judgments/conclusions

about all of us. This group has been online for 5+ years and contains

over 40,000 email messages -- a rich history of just about every

treatment regimen you can imagine (and quite a bit I would bet you've

never heard of!) has been discussed over the years on this group.

Also, please continue posting your own progress -- as we are truly

interested in reading about the long term efficacy of the treatment

you've chosen for yourself.

Carla Dionne