tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post819477387227867205..comments2023-01-27T00:28:06.058+11:00Comments on Ben B. Brave: Fear and alternative medicinebenbraveryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09775661064120037094noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-75078580095755467222016-09-26T20:36:00.498+10:002016-09-26T20:36:00.498+10:00While treating cancer by modern medicine we often ...While treating cancer by modern medicine we often focus more on the quantity of life lived, however factors like pain, stress, anxiety, fatigue, fear of death are obvious. <a rel="nofollow">alternative cancer treatments</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14911658460821910625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-61913077222245643542015-05-13T12:56:55.810+10:002015-05-13T12:56:55.810+10:00Note: I had no prior history of rashes before comm...Note: I had no prior history of rashes before commencing my chemotherapy course, although a doctor had advised me years before that my health issues meant I could be vulnerable to them if I could not sufficiently practice "prudent avoidance". Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165952752230579149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-24954678945832124162015-05-13T11:02:44.757+10:002015-05-13T11:02:44.757+10:00... Also to mention: as with other aspects of my t...... Also to mention: as with other aspects of my treatment, I really did make a serious attempt to view and deal with my chemotherapy treatment positively as it was happening. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165952752230579149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-11268067469139199292015-05-13T10:54:06.855+10:002015-05-13T10:54:06.855+10:00… Annoying to have to note since I had most of the...… Annoying to have to note since I had most of the chemo course and the permanent legacy of a rash since; the chemo failed to protect me from secondaries in any case. My second round of radiotherapy treatment was conducted without chemo, and was completely successful in clearing all signs. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165952752230579149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-33923953121902037632015-05-13T10:45:02.701+10:002015-05-13T10:45:02.701+10:00I think it was when my gyno-oncologist so bluntly ...I think it was when my gyno-oncologist so bluntly dismissed my concerns around the chemotherapy, without waiting to hear my reasons or anything about my health history related to that. I mentioned above I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivity – which often makes life very awkward and uncomfortable, especially as I do push the envelope as much as I can to live as normal a life as possible. I’m not asAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165952752230579149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-57429453115508330932015-05-12T16:16:27.235+10:002015-05-12T16:16:27.235+10:00Going back to your feeling that the doctors wouldn...Going back to your feeling that the doctors wouldn't support your other activities, is there an event you can pinpoint that communicated this or was it based on your experience up until that point with doctors?benbraveryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775661064120037094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-24775258390108900482015-05-12T15:34:20.946+10:002015-05-12T15:34:20.946+10:00Hi Ben; thanks for your response! Certainly when I...Hi Ben; thanks for your response! Certainly when I was intensively in the "treatment space", I was thinking of what I was doing as complimentary rather than opposively alternative. I agree that “complimentary” is a far more useful term for encouraging constructive communication between doctors and patients. <br /><br />For example – and here we come back to possible placebo – when Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02165952752230579149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-66035351766830315272015-05-12T14:54:13.204+10:002015-05-12T14:54:13.204+10:00Hi Tamsin, congrats on being cancer free for 5 yea...Hi Tamsin, congrats on being cancer free for 5 years!<br /><br />I ended up having an ultra low anterior resection with a loop ileostomy and then a reversal of the ileostomy almost a year later. <br /><br />Like you, I used treatments around what the doctors were doing, but I prefer to call these 'complementary' and not 'alternative'. To me, an alternative therapy is an option benbraveryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775661064120037094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-49149473383271302142015-05-12T14:30:26.233+10:002015-05-12T14:30:26.233+10:00Hi Ben; very interesting… I’m just not clear from ...Hi Ben; very interesting… I’m just not clear from your article as to how extensive your surgery ended up being?<br /><br /> I'm really not sure how much detail to put here. Despite 3 negative PAP test results in the 18 months prior, in November 2008 I was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer (tumour was 10 cm across and beginning to invade the vaginal wall and crowd out other organs). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-51622994799526737782015-05-07T19:43:16.323+10:002015-05-07T19:43:16.323+10:00Thanks Jade. Totally agree about the collaboration...Thanks Jade. Totally agree about the collaboration. And as a start, hospitals could start to record what patients get up to outside the hospital. Easy, just insert a tick and flick form amongst the 200 other ones we fill out regularly ;)benbraveryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09775661064120037094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5177586840354107538.post-54089116346566909752015-05-07T19:26:10.466+10:002015-05-07T19:26:10.466+10:00Love this so much Ben! There is most definitely ro...Love this so much Ben! There is most definitely room for both, but both worlds need to be more openly collaborative and supportive of each other. There is a lot more work to be done to bridge the gap. I hope your training is going well!Jade McKenzienoreply@blogger.com