Hello there! I was diagnosed with bc 2021 and went through a doubke mastectomy andvavtears worth of chemo. Tamixafun was guven however, i was intolerant and stopped the medication. Since then, other than random bloodcwork there has been no follow through with the oncologist. I assumed everything was ok and went along with my life. In early May 2024, i had a fall and injured my left shoulder. I went for MRI and they found hone metastasis disease in my scapula. I was sent to a new oncologist and further tests and bone scans were conducted. At this point several ribscwere found pathologically fractured alonf with several areas of bone mets in axial andvthiracic skeleton regions. I decided that i am not goingbto do ANY treatments and was immediately put on hospice. Now heres the caveat. Why wouldnt i fight. After careful research i determined that chemo was a waste of time and that the entire treatment it was spreading and was not shrinking anything at all. Chemo does not kill cancer cells. It reduces division. A WATE OF TIME. Furthermore, the mastectomy obviously missed some hijacking cells and there it went. So hospice was an easy choice and the right one for me. My last statement is that most if you may think i am a cynical person ir giving up. Not the case at all. I am a fighter. I just choose to live in reality and reality is in my face. Now i must fight in another way…working on healing myself within the conditions of homeopathy and treat my body with kindness. Every targeted treatment out there will proling my life expectancy however will not cure it. The pain associated with this disease is indescribable. So quality of life and comfort are my golden rule at this point. Hospice has been trial and error finding the right pain management however the team has been awsome. Dont be afraid to die ir accept that it is your time, focus on self care and love, family , friendships. Take care all!
I’m so very sorry to read your story, everyone of us fears our cancer will return & be untreatable. I’m at the beginning of my journey as I have completed radiotherapy, but have not started taking the Tamoxifen, 3 months it’s been in my drawer now, I can’t bring myself to take it. Metastasis is terrifying me, but Tamoxifen will only reduce the chance of recurrence not stop it & I don’t trust what other things it will do to me. I wish you the very best in your choice.
I am so sorry and I hope you get the care you need. Each person has to decide what’s right for them and you’re right in that quality of life is so important. This disease has so many twists and turns and no one can predict, which is why it is so awful. I hope you have good friends and family to lean on for support and wishing you the best. Mind yourself.
I totally respect your choice . It’s what’s right for each individual.
I had a mastectomy 2021 - chose radiotherapy but not chemo as I wanted quality of life and it was covid times so difficult as living alone . Two years later I thought I just hurt a rib but had a CT and it had pathologically fractured and mets were found in sacrum and spine . I had more radiotherapy which did save nerve involvement then targeted therapy for 9 months which didn’t work sufficiently so had progression . I agreed to try oral chemo which I’m now on- early days but as yet do not know if it’s doing anything other than decrease quality of life in my books . .If this fails then the oncologist says there’s another hormone tablet then iv chemo and that there’s always more drugs . I am sure I will not accept iv chemo and my gut feeling is that like you saying no to yet more aggressive treatment may well be the best decision although it’s hard to take these decisions as oncologists will I think always want you to try more and more .I have researched stats on actual likely benefit in my position of these treatments.
I hope I will be as brave as you when I come to the decision as to whether to take yet more treatment ( I am 76) and can’t fault my team but your post has encouraged me that I’m not the only one for whom stopping might be the best decision . I am already under the hospice for pain relief though mercifully I need little at the moment . All best wishes to you .
Hello @amber.lynn33
You are a very brave lady, choosing the homeopathy route is something I have been reading about. There are people out there that have reversed their terminal diagnosis by changing the way they live.
If you are interested here are some of the details:
Chris Wark - he has the Square One program that is free to watch, sign up here
https://fb.watch/tZ-zwN3Z7k/?
Also he has books that are very informative one of which is Chris Beat Cancer, his cook book is good too.
Then there is a book Breaking The Cancer Code by Dr Geronimo Rubio and Carolyn Gross.
Take care xxx