On Sep 17, 2009 12:00 AM Miss_Michele wrote:
Hi,
My husband is now 62 and 4 and 1/2 years ago he had a whipple surgery at UCLA in California and he has not been the same since. He is in more and more pain each and every day. He is thinner now then he was any time after the surgery. He had his small intestiens removed, 1/2 of his pancreas removed, andall of his gall bladder. The doctor told me after the surgery that they found it in his limp nods and he was treated with both chemo and radiation at the same time. The end results are he suffers so much now every day. He lives on pain meds ( methadone, oxcycotdon, etc) and yet the doctors can not find a thing wrong. He suffers with the pain from mid morning and it goes on all day. He sleeps and sleeps all day long , then he wakes and eats his dinner, lives on 10 gallons of ice cream a week, and from 7 ish PM every night, he then is sleeping . He cant seem to come out of this . The pain is where his intestines were and also on the surface of his skin in the same area. He cant sleep with any covers over him ( just as if it were shingles ) as the pain is so intense. I thought by now that it would let up for him but as the days go by it gets stronger the pain and stronger. Yet, the doctors have no answer at all. His blood works, all testing , everything shows up normal and nothing....This is a man who does not fake things , an educated man who misses his "life as he knew it" and I too miss him. Help please...I would appricate any help or guiding light here one way or the other. We have even tried accupucnture, reckkie doctors, fatih healers just to remove the pain to no avail. sorry about any sp as i hit the keys , I have scleraderma and my fingers are bent...sorry..thank you again for any help any one can shed some light on here. blessings always,
Miss Michele
Hi Michele,
I am sorry to hear about your husband. My mom, who is 79 years old, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007. She had the whipple procedure in 2007. She had radiation and chemo treatments. My mother experienced the same things as your husband. This is a very difficult surgery to recover from. My mother has had chemo treatments twice since her surgery. Her last chemo treatment was very hard on her. My mother is now on Lifeone, an alternative treatment. The doctor also put her on DeAromatase to repair damage to the endocrine system caused by radiation or chemotherapy. She has been on the treatment for one month and her pain is gone! She had pain in her back and right rib for months and could not sleep. She is now sleeping all night! Things are looking good. She says she just needs to regain her strength. About a year ago she changed her diet. She no longer eats any sweets, baked or fried foods, dairy, no meat except for grass fed chicken, fish, vegetables, and fruit. Watch her glucose level. Glucose levels are usually high in cancer patients. Doctor was surprised to see her glucose levels so low. (must be the diet we have her on) She was baking for a while and that seemed to raise her markers and make things worse. We try to see she eats more alkaline foods to keep her her body's acidic ph low, also when she was in pain we fed her anti-inflammatory diet. Stay away from foods that cause inflammation. No foods that contain GMOs. She has been taking enzymes (vitalzym x), Q10, flax oil, natural calm magnesium powder drink, EDD Essential daily defense, BAM (Beyond any multiple vitamin and mineral supplement), Iodoral, milk thistle, spirulina, prill beads for pure water. Two helpful websites. cancertutor.com has three phase to their treatment: PHASE ONE cancer treatment (once phase one is completed she can add some foods back to her diet), PHASE TWO remission (kill microbes so cancer is gone), PHASE THREE prevention http://www.new-cancer-treatments.org/Articles/StrongestTreat