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by pabl
Wed Jun 15, 2016 8:34 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: MYSTERY:How does Rectal cancer cause ongoing diarrhea??
Replies: 9
Views: 2177

Re: MYSTERY:How does Rectal cancer cause ongoing diarrhea??

I have the same issue every week or so. It seems that something I eat hits my stomach and doesn't react well, and soon after, I get diarrhea and it seems like it triggers my entire system to empty. I have been to a GI doctor who speculated that it was because of the radiation---that it changed the a...
by pabl
Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:26 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Calling Lung Thang Experts. UPDATE 12/29
Replies: 29
Views: 4679

Re: Calling Lung Thang Experts. UPDATE added

I'm sorry about my last post--I hadn't read your original post in a while and didn't realize that it had grown since last scan. I would get it out of there with VATS...maybe even get the other one out at the same time (if it's also a met). I know they are having a hard time determining. I would get ...
by pabl
Fri Dec 19, 2014 9:19 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Calling Lung Thang Experts. UPDATE 12/29
Replies: 29
Views: 4679

Re: Calling Lung Thang Experts. UPDATE added

It seems like they should be able to look at a previous scan to see what the "thing" looked like before (and how much it has grown) and be able to tell what it is without a biopsy. If it's too small to tell by looking at it and it wasn't there in a previous scan, then my doctors would have...
by pabl
Wed Dec 17, 2014 12:43 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Calling Lung Thang Experts. UPDATE 12/29
Replies: 29
Views: 4679

Re: Calling Lung Thang Experts

I had a lung thing that had grown and was removed with VATS. It showed up big enough to notice---2 years from diagnosis and it has been 3 years since surgery to remove it. I used to eat Essiac Tea and take all kinds of herbs and spices...maybe something I did or just "luck"...tho-- I can't...
by pabl
Fri Nov 01, 2013 10:46 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: What to do about recurrence?
Replies: 22
Views: 3704

Re: What to do about recurrence?

Hi Sophy, I had finished my treatments and then about 10 mos. later (I was a few months late for 6 month scan), and they found a lung lesion. Don't know if it is technically a recurrence or it was there all along and just too small to notice in the prior scan. I just consider myself changed to stage...
by pabl
Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:23 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Importance of Vitamin B6 and Folate
Replies: 1
Views: 614

Importance of Vitamin B6 and Folate

I have recently been told, by a cancer researcher friend, to take vitamin B6. So I looked up it's role in CRC and found studies like the following: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1015057614870#page-1 Also told to take N-acetylcistene (NAC) and L-carnosine for basic anti-oxidation as we (...
by pabl
Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:49 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: BrownBagger Update
Replies: 65
Views: 7246

Re: BrownBagger Update

As I await my scan results of yesterday's scan, I consider how I got on this board shortly after you. Anyway, I have just remembered a great total body exercise that involves pushing a weighted bicycle up a hill and back down. It's not the adventure of riding, but it has the benefit of working the u...
by pabl
Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:38 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Who are the longest stage 4 survivor's on here?
Replies: 136
Views: 73773

Re: Who are the longest stage 4 survivor's on here?

I started this stuff in '09. I either had a recurrence or it was always there--lung met removed last year (they had seen it ever-so-small on the previous scan 6-8 mos. earlier). I will soon see if I am 1 year cancer free sometime in Feb. when I get scanned. Early on, I remember thinking that I look ...
by pabl
Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:17 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Digestive Problems and Colorectal Cancer Survivors
Replies: 16
Views: 4899

Re: Digestive Problems and Colorectal Cancer Survivors

I had a cycle of diarhea (still can't remember how to spell it--I think it's a mental block)...anyway about every couple of weeks ever since my reversal back in '10. I tried probiotics and psyllium which helped a bit but the cycle still continued. Then I met someone who had been researching peptides...
by pabl
Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:32 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Who are the longest stage 4 survivor's on here?
Replies: 136
Views: 73773

Re: Who are the longest stage 4 survivor's on here?

I am not so long---but since 2009. 4 years ago I was diagnosed stage 3 but for a small lung met that went unnoticed till Dec. '11 (thus stage 4). Now I am clear since having VATS surgery then with no additional chemo. Scanning again soon in Feb., so hoping I will still be clear (over 1 year by then)...
by pabl
Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:14 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Benefits of N-Acetyl-Cystein
Replies: 0
Views: 654

Benefits of N-Acetyl-Cystein

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/may ... ine_01.htm

Has anyone any experience with this protein supplement?
by pabl
Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:49 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: running a 5K tomorrow
Replies: 18
Views: 1813

Re: running a 5K tomorrow

Way to go! I would just make sure that you have a few extra pounds going into your surgery because it might take a while before your digestive system wakes up again before you can eat. I went without food for like 8 days before they let me eat---and I was in terrific shape from tennis and strong fro...
by pabl
Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:47 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Block Institute-Illinois
Replies: 8
Views: 1221

Re: Block Institute-Illinois

I think it's in Evanston.
Essiac Tea comes from an Ojibwa Indian in Canada---with an interesting story to it. Google it.

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