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I wanted to just take a couple of minutes to tell you how I'm doing.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer July 2006. I immediately began to research alternative cures for cancer, and by the time they were ready to start cutting on me I knew better. Unfortunately, this was not before I had biopsies on both breasts. Still, the information I gained from the biopsies has helped me to know what I am dealing with.

I actually joined this group way back then, but I was not ready to commit to the Budwig Protocol. A couple of things held me up. I just really wasn't ready to give up my supplements, and I was working with a nutritionist who was very adamantly against dairy. One of the really difficult things when you start down this path is to sort through all the conflicting information and figure out who to listen to. Over this past year, I have found myself struggling to stick to any one particular plan, because there was always some new idea screaming for my attention.

From July to November, I actually saw some positive signs. I was 180+ lbs when I started, and as I changed to a mostly raw food diet and began to exercise the pounds just naturally dropped off. At about Thanksgiving time, I began to have serious digestive discomfort. I tried to ignore it and just keep doing what I was doing, but in January I finally went to see my doctor. He just wanted to give me pills. My nutritionist was trying to get me to add more supplements. I continued to feel lousy.

Around March, I had about 3 or 4 weeks where I actually felt pretty good and was thinking about getting seriously back on all my supplements and strict diet again. Then I started feeling not-so-good. Still, it was an on-again, off-again, thing, and I just kept limping along.

This summer I began reading this list regularly again and decided that I really wanted to get serious about Budwig. I wasn't taking the supplements anyway because I was too sick, and the expense of them was too great anyway. As I was gearing up to get started, I got really sick in early July. I had about a week straight that I could keep absolutely nothing down, and I was in constant pain. Though 110 lbs. is a perfectly acceptable weight for me, I was losing weight at about 5 lbs a week, and those closest to me were telling me how absolutely horrible I looked.

At that point, I broke down and went to a gastroenterologist. They did an endoscopy and a CT scan. I was told that I had a hiatal hernia and gall stones. Additionally, they saw scattered suspicious lesions on my bones, and I have acites, both of which are signs of probable metastasis. (A year ago I was told based on my PET scan that there was no metastasis.) Knowing the cause of my digestive issues, a little research told me that Budwig would be good for the digestive symptoms as well. Also, knowing that I now may have metastasis (probably caused by the biopsies), gave me the incentive to get serious about the protocol.

I did take the medication that the gastroenterologist recommended for 30 days, stopping it last week when my supply ran out. I have been doing Budwig since July 17th, so right at a month. During this time, I have had almost no reflux and no abdominal pain. I did incorporate Smooth Move tea into my regimin on about an every-other-day basis for a couple of weeks. Now my bowels, which basically had not functioned at all for the past 6 months, are functioning regularly. The only thing I am doing in addition to the Budwig Protocol is I am taking 2 T. daily of Ambrotose. I have about 10 tubs of it (probably about $1300 worth) that a friend has been sending to me for months, so I am going to take it.

Overall, I feel great and and am functioning at 110%. Though I haven't decided what kind of monitoring I might do, I hope to be able to tell you in a few months that I am cancer free. One thing about having this huge breast tumor with no body fat left is that it is easily monitored, so it could be that I will have a good indicator of how I am doing without any additional testing. I'll keep you posted!

Melanie

Hi Melanie, what is ambrotose. Rhoda

Rhoda,

Ambrotose is the brand name of a glyconutrient product produced by Mannatech. It is an MLM company. You can do a search on glyconutrients and come up with all kinds of info on it. You can also find a few mentions of it in the flaxseedoil2 archives. I think in the discussions we've had here the conclusion has been that though it is certainly not necessary add anything to Budwig, Ambrotose probably does not interfere. It is a food rather than a supplement. It is pretty expensive. It would cost about $500 a month to take it in the proportions recommended for seriously ill people. So it's not very practical for most of us. Like I said, I'm taking it because my friend ships it to me. During the months that I was too sick to eat properly I was hoarding it, so I've got quite a stash.

Melanie