Chemo side effects and acupuncture?

Question

I'm going through ABVD chemo (starting round 2 next week) and am having some pretty nasty side effects, as expected. There is only so much my oncologist can suggest for the effects, and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with acupuncture for this type of thing? The worst side effect is just pain, bone pain, jaw pain, muscle pain, etc. I don't want to go through life on pain meds constantly, and am hoping there are alternative options to dealing with the side effects.

Answer 1

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Increased the ability of patients to tolerate Chemo to the full 100%
Increased the Cancer Survival rate by 80%

They are accepting some patients under FDA Fast Track SPA Phase III in the USA.

Script is available outside the USA:

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Novelos' pipeline of drugs is based on oxidized glutathione, a natural metabolite that is part of the glutathione pathway. This pathway is the primary determinant of intracellular redox (oxidation/reduction) potential and, as such, plays a key role in cell protection (e.g. detoxification) and in regulation of cell signaling pathways (e.g. leading to cytokine production). Novelos’ lead products are believed to act, in part, via post-translational modification (glutathionylation) of critical regulatory proteins that mediate processes including immune function, cell proliferation and tumor progression (in combination with chemotherapy). They may also sensitize tumor cells to certain chemotherapeutic drugs by modifying drug detoxification processes.

Answer 2

Accupuncture can help, I knows from experience. Not cancer, but pain in general. Also, Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since – more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

Answer 3

Try Transfer Factor Plus, is on the PDR, so you can ask your doctor about it. Is not a drug, is natural, what it does is that increases your immune system to help you fight all the invaders that attacks our body daily. Chemo kills good cells together with the bad cells, so your immune system works harder to defend you. Transfer Factor Plus will help you to increase the immune system and consequently will increase the natural killer cells up to 283%. Transfer Factor has eliminate cancer cells up to a 98%. Now, every single human being is different and because is not a drug, it will not work the same with every one but believe me, is worthy trying it. My mother-in-law had leukemia type 4, there was not much the doctors can do, so the they send her home and gave her three weeks of life. They put morphine on her and she was unable to speak coherent. We try TFP and in two weeks we saw a huge change, she was able to recognized her family and her red and white cells increase enough to change her blood schedule. Instead of two pints of blood every two weeks she only need it two pints a month. For us that was great, we knew new she was not going to survive but she die in peace. Sometimes I wish I knew the product before but only God knows when is our time to leave this world. I wish you good and just know that TFP is a good option. It has no side effects and just so that you feel comfortable, my nephew uses it since he was two months old because he is asthmatic and the pediatric recommended to him, and he is great. I say is a gift from heaven. If you want more inf. let me know at [e-mail]