A friend pushing 'Snake oil cures"

[MSJC]

A soon to be "ex-friend", keeps posting (not on this forum) and singing the praises of baking soda, changing your body ph, etc. as cancer cures. I know this topic has been talked about over and over and over again. I've asked for actual names and phone numbers for some of these folks that have been miraculously cured... I'm still waiting on an answer!!

[Ontario Guy]

Let us know if you get one.

OG

[jhocno197]

It really ticks me off when people do that!!!!

[Val*pal]

I think that the people who post or suggest these snake oil "cures" have ego problems. How else do you explain that they think they know more than science and medicine? I have one in my extended family, and I find it very difficult to be around her because she is always spouting this sh*%!

[exaussie]

Curious...does this person have cancer? If not, they have no business posting something they don't try themselves.

[canadiandaughter]

I would be very scared to ever try any of these random cures and stop with the ones that are working. I do though think that if you consult with your oncologist and some of these things will not screw with your chemo or whatever you are taking and you want to try them, go for it! Of course you will never know if it was the chemo or the snake oil that helps, but maybe trying it helped your mental ability to fight the disease and I think that is important to. Power of positive thinking cant hurt! I saw a post this AM about essential oils, my daughter is thinking about selling them so will be curious to see what that malarkey is all about! I know my girls use some of them for other things and they work, might be worth investigating or maybe someone on here has already found where its a dud!

[Ron50]

I was sitting in the skin cancer clinic during the week for my annual check. (One more large piece of my leg went missing this time) There were pamphlets there begging people not to use a product called black salve on their skin cancers and possible melanomas. They advised that it is such a powerful alkaloid that it is leaving people permanently scarred and disfigured and quite often the remaining cancer under the scar is very hard to detect. Most people get it from adds in the paper. Even the naturopaths won't go near it. BEWARE of the snake oil and whats in it. Ron

[Nik Colon]

I was sitting in the skin cancer clinic during the week for my annual check. (One more large piece of my leg went missing this time) There were pamphlets there begging people not to use a product called black salve on their skin cancers and possible melanomas. They advised that it is such a powerful alkaloid that it is leaving people permanently scarred and disfigured and quite often the remaining cancer under the scar is very hard to detect. Most people get it from adds in the paper. Even the naturopaths won't go near it. BEWARE of the snake oil and whats in it. Ron

Yep, I have heard of the black salve and seen the pics, why would anyone do that!

[wandalein]

My husband chose to go the non-conventional route but we would never give that advice to anyone we know with cancer. We only tell them what he is doing. When my cousin's husband was dx he took the traditional route and when he passed away my husband said we should have got him on the Oncolyn sooner. I said "no" they had to do what felt right to them, and it was only when he had exhausted those options that we could offer up any advice. It is one thing to take your own chances but you would not want to give recommendations to another person.

[NZJay]

Ron, I was strongly recommended Black Salve as a cure-all for ANY kind of cancer haha. Thankfully I'm neither lunatic nor moron.

[MSJC]

Thanks for the replies! I have taken the approach of...convince me, I want to believe also, but she has offered no basis for her beliefs, no names, no phone numbers, nothing! My "friend" is educated and normally a very reasonable person, she does not have cancer, for the life of me, I can't figure out why she continues to promote products without personal knowledge or experience... the gloves are about to come off and it's probably going to get a little fuggly!

[MSJC]

My husband chose to go the non-conventional route but we would never give that advice to anyone we know with cancer. We only tell them what he is doing. When my cousin's husband was dx he took the traditional route and when he passed away my husband said we should have got him on the Oncolyn sooner. I said "no" they had to do what felt right to them, and it was only when he had exhausted those options that we could offer up any advice. It is one thing to take your own chances but you would not want to give recommendations to another person.

I respect your husbands choice for his own treatment and would love to hear details of what worked for him. I have no problem with anyone relating their own personal story, as I can only tell others what I have personally experienced, it's when people promote "cures" just by "hear-say" that bugs the hell out of me!

[wandalein]

I hear you. If it is a personal experience, if asked it is okay to relay. I also noticed that there is a blame thing people do. My husband doesn't drink or smoke (I do) and people would say, did he eat too much read meat, blah blah blah, looking for a reason. Maybe it is genetics or just bad luck. People look for a reason as well as a cure.

[Nik Colon]

I hear you. If it is a personal experience, if asked it is okay to relay. I also noticed that there is a blame thing people do. My husband doesn't drink or smoke (I do) and people would say, did he eat too much read meat, blah blah blah, looking for a reason. Maybe it is genetics or just bad luck. People look for a reason as well as a cure.

I hate the blame game! Too many I see who live healthy getting cancer! Cancer doesn't discriminate imo

[JudeD59]

I hear you. If it is a personal experience, if asked it is okay to relay. I also noticed that there is a blame thing people do. My husband doesn't drink or smoke (I do) and people would say, did he eat too much read meat, blah blah blah, looking for a reason. Maybe it is genetics or just bad luck. People look for a reason as well as a cure.

My in-laws have done this for years around the dinner table and it drives me nuts. "Did you hear so and so has cancer? Well, you know she always (drank too much, smoked, ate too much, ate too little, jaywalked, crossed her legs, whatever) so it's no surprise to me." They always blame the person who is ill, as though anyone deserves to have cancer. I think it makes them feel bulletproof as though they could never possibly get it since they don't do whatever the person with cancer did. I've had to get up and leave the table because it makes me sick to my stomach. I'm sure they have all kinds of theories as to why I got rectal cancer. Maybe I got it because they have been a pain in my ass for 32 years.

Judy