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Hi all:

I have been doing the budwig protocol for about 2 weeks now. I'm wondering
how some of you track your progress on the diet.

I am dealing with stage 4 breast cancer with mets to liver and bones. Is
there harm with doing ct scans and pet scans to determine your progress of
disease? I don't know how else to determine my status, since you can't actually see your
liver or bones.

Are the rest of you tracking yourselves with some other method?

Thanks!

Esther

There are many that will advise that Scans carry a sufficient risk as to be avoided.

These are decisions only you can make.

I have heard that one CT-Scan is equal to 100 Chest X-Rays. Would I take 100 Chest X-Rays? Why would I inflict that on already diseased organs? However that is me.

I would think, if I had your diagnosis and it is me speaking, that I already know I have the illness and after only a couple of weeks what could I learn?

Even a 'tumor response' indicating shrinkage would not tell me I was getting better because of the other factors. Then scans, like all tests, do not reveal everything and you would still be flying blind so to speak.

These are not easy decisions Esther and I would hope that more experienced people on the list would enter the discussion. Again Esther, it is your decision.

Are you doing the alternative protocols on your own without any assistance from any 'professionals'????

Good luck with what your efforts are and keep up trying.

Joe C.

I know this may sound too way out for some peolpe, but I just listen to my body for knowing if things are going right or not.

Elliot will tell you that scans are to be used, if at all, very carefully.

Anna

Anna wrote:

I know this may sound too way out for some peolpe, but I just listen to my
body for knowing if things are going right or not.

Some will consider it "spot on" ;-)

Ulla

Hi, Esther.

If you MUST get CT and/or PET scans to see how you are doing, then at
least get them as RARELY as possible. From all the research I have
done, it appears that just ONE full-body CT scan delivers perhaps as
much radiation as 1600 chest x-rays. I am basing that on the fact
that I read that an abdominal CT scan delivers as much radiation as
800 chest x-rays!

I happen to think a doctor who has to use regular CT scans on a
person---say, 1 every 2 months, or even more than that, is a klutz---
someone who has no idea how to judge how a client is doing other than
irradiating them!

There is an oncologist in California who is able to judge how his
clients are doing by their mood, their eyes, their skin, and so on.
Essentially, if a client is "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," he feels
no need to do a CT or a PET scan.

I hope you will share your concerns with your oncologist, Esther, and
that you will ask him if he knows how much radiation there is in the
specific scan or scans he wants to do on you. If he does not know,
then tell him to find out!

Best wishes,

Elliot

"I know this may sound too way out for some peolpe, but I just listen
to my body for knowing if things are going right or not.
Elliot will tell you that scans are to be used, if at all, very
carefully."

You bet, Anna! In an earlier message, I said that an oncologist who
feels the need to administer CT scan after CT scan to determine how a
client is doing is a klutz and a stumblebum.

LOL, Ulla! Or, as some say in Canada, "bang on!"

The "Medical Establishment" has done much to persuade people to
mistrust and to ignore the messages their body gives them.

In "Cancer As A Turning Point," there is a scary/humorous true story
about a woman(thankfully a forthright and self-confident one)who was
hooked up to a heart monitor that malfunctioned and began to "flat
line." When it did, all kinds of personnel rushed into her room with
the defibrillator and other emergency equipment, ready to "bring her
back to life." "HEY!" she shouted at them, "EXCUSE ME, BUT I AM SITTING
UP IN BED DRINKING A CUP OF ORANGE JUICE! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH
ME! IT'S YOUR MACHINE THAT'S MALFUNCTIONING!"

She truly had to scream at them in order to keep them from trying to
resuscitate her, despite the fact that there was obviously nothing
wrong with her, which goes to show how completely ridiculous things
have become with regard to how much the mainstream medical community
mistrusts and disrespects "the wisdom of the body" AND "the wisdom of
the client."