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remedy regimen during chemo?
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:56 pm
by Carol Orr
Continue remedy/remedies during chemo? Any opinions out there?
Re: remedy regimen during chemo?
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:09 pm
by Marco Franzreb
Hi Carrol
Certainly yes. But maybe because of the chemo you will need different medication.
Regards
marco
Carol Orr wrote:
Dr. M. Franzreb Corbelletti
Castellana 171 Bajo izda., 28046 Madrid
www.drmarcofranzreb.com
Tel.: 914491957
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Re: remedy regimen during chemo?
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:45 pm
by Rosemary Hyde
I don't think it does any harm to continue remedies during chemo, but the
chemo is so overwhelming that you get absolutely no information about
whether or how the remedies are acting -- so generally, I tend to focus
during chemo on the worst toxic side-effects, warning the patient first that
under no circumstances should they let any relief they get from the remedies
lure them into following suggestions from their oncologist that since they
"did so well" they should go through another round of chemo right away!!!
(it's happened -- AARRGHH! -- called "learning from experience.").
It's also important to get the complete case picture before chemo, for
remedy selection purposes, even if the patient doesn't start the remedy till
afterward. The chemo will obliterate a lot of useful characteristic and
individualizing symptoms, making case analysis afterward much harder, except
possibly for chemo damage, not the disease itself.
Rosemary