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hi francine,what is your protocol for ALA? how often and how much?thanks,johnFrom: FrancieS <francie@...>Subject: [low dose naltrexone] Time for an update (long)low dose naltrexone Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010, 5:19 PM

I promised to get back with the outcome of my cancer treatment, so here it is.

A bit of background. I started on LDN May 1, 2009 when I lost my insurance and could no longer get the Copaxone for my MS, that I had used for 9 years, while slowly going down hill.

The LDN was an instant help to me, starting with climbing out of my depression, having more energy, and lifting of the notorious "mental fog." Over the months, things got better and better, even for my worst symptom of heat intolerance, which had forced our move from Texas to Kentucky, a couple of years earlier. I think that went away about October, but I am not sure, as we were moving into winter, but by the following summer, this last summer 2010, it was nearly gone.

Things were going so well with my health, that when I got an offer to judge at the huge European Winners' Dog Show in Slovenia, we decided to take that trip that we had put off for decades. We would fly into Rome, spend some time in Florence and Venice and then rent a car to drive into Slovenia, which is just east of Italy. I was a foreign exchange student in Sienna Italy in the 60's but had never been able to take my husband of 43 years to see it, especially after finally getting diagnosed with MS and being nearly bed bound for 10 years.

I had started to have some trouble with a discharge and got an appointment with an OB/GYN the week before we were to leave. On the Monday before leaving at 6 am on Tuesday, he gave us the news that I had Uterine cancer, stage 2 or 3. This was devastating as you can imagine.

He offered to make an appointment immediately with a "great oncologist" in Nashville, but I reminded him that I have no insurance and it appears that you have to have at least $20,000 available to just get started with this sort of cancer. So, he suggested the teaching hospital in Louisville, but it would take 2 weeks to get an appointment. That was perfect, we would be back in just two weeks. We bought Alpha Lipoid Acid on the way to the airport and picked up Sodium Bicarbonate when we got to Rome.

I immediately started doing more research and found that Medical Tourism is huge in Mexico and lots of other countries. Those countries have universal health care and since the government supplements the health industry, the hospitals are equipped with top quality equipment and education.

Here is an interesting article from a San Francisco newspaper:

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We came back to the appointment in Louisville and long story short, the price would be $35,000 to $50,000 and I could not get a surgery date for at least 6-8 weeks. What an eye opener! Shoot, I can get my dog spayed for under $200. Since this was totally out of our range, we picked up my records, which was the best thing to happen. You see, the doctor was apparently was not bright enough to understand the difference between 2-3 stage cancer and grade 2 of 3. Stage is how far advanced the cancer is (indicating that it had breached the walls of the uterus and moved into the pelvic cavity, and grade is how aggressive the cells are. There is a huge difference and I don't have much faith in a doctor who does not know the difference.

We had already decided that our back-up plan would be to travel to Mexico for surgery, so we packed up, got a dog-, horse- and house-sitter and took off for Texas to visit family first. They required lots of pre-surgery testing, like a full blood panel, EKG and chest X-ray. After running up three flights of stairs to my appointment (try doing that pre-LDN!), my hormone doctor joked that except for MS and Cancer, I was a very healthy person.

The surgery went well. Total cost was under $6,000 and we spent a week in Puerto Vallarta at a health resort recovering. I spent the extra expense to have full pathologies done (an extra $360).

As an aside, I have to admit that I was really disappointed that my precious LDN had not protected me from this. I had been reading for nearly two years that it is used with cancer and the wonderful stories of regression of tumors.

It was only after the surgery, that I realized that (1) my cancer obviously predated my use of LDN and (2) something (and I am going to give credit here) had kept it from spreading. The pathology showed that the tumor was totally confined to the uterus, the cervix and surrounding border were clear, the adjacent lymph nodes showed no signs of cancer and the fluid taken from the pelvic cavity was also clear.

I could not have been more pleased with the outcome. The LDN improves our immune system, but it is very hard to get that immunity INTO the inside of the uterus as it is designed to protect its contents from the mother's immunity.

However, the LDN apparently did its job in protecting the rest of my body from metastases. All of the US doctors recommended "complimentary therapy", also known as chemo, in spite of this excellent report. They have to. If they tell a patient that they don't need chemo and then they die, the doctor can be sued. If they tell the patient that they need chemo and it kills the patient, the doctor is safe. That is the American way, sadly enough.

I will continue my LDN and ALA and stay as healthy as possible and get annual tests to stay on top of the Cancer and to stay on my feet in spite of the MS. I will also continue my bio-identical hormones. Every one of the US doctors (except my hormone doctor) told me that my cancer was caused by the estrogen. Now, young ladies with lots of estrogen seldom get endometrial cancer, so things seem backwards. I had the tumor tested for receptors and was quite relieved to have it test negative for both estrogen and progesterone, as well as finding two receptors that it did have in case there was need for further treatment.

We got back to Texas in time to throw an early Thanksgiving, since I did not want to wait for the following Thursday to show just how grateful I am. It has been a month now, since my surgery and things have gone perfectly. Just in comparison, I would STILL be waiting for an opening at the Louisville hospital.

Francie

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