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I'm sorry to hear your son might get his foot amputated. When I was doing an internship at a hospital, a kid who is the same age as me (21) injured his foot to the point where it was pretty much amputated already (there was a couple of ligaments and veins still attached to it which we just cut off). The kid wanted to be a police officer in the future and was about to start the academy.
I am not naïve enough to think that I am someone that should be giving out advice on this particular matter so all I can say is good luck and I hope things turn out to the better.
 
Scat said:
In Craig's defense, what the hell could it hurt to try his stuff? At worst, it does absolutely nothing. At best, it saves the leg.

I'm always amazed at how closed minded people can be if their doctor doesn't recommend something. In my experience, most docs do a lot of educated guess work and hope that what they recommend is the correct course of treatment. If you try and "talk shop" with them they shut you down. I had one doctor that specialized in "sports medicine" tell me that creatine was a steroid and would make me sterile and shrink my boys. When I tried to talk some sense into him he basically kicked me out of his office saying that he wouldn't be my steroid advisor.
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omg THANK YOU.

Honestly, you don't have anything to lose. Give it some consideration, OP.
 
Scat said:
In Craig's defense, what the hell could it hurt to try his stuff? At worst, it does absolutely nothing. At best, it saves the leg.

I'm always amazed at how closed minded people can be if their doctor doesn't recommend something. In my experience, most docs do a lot of educated guess work and hope that what they recommend is the correct course of treatment. If you try and "talk shop" with them they shut you down. I had one doctor that specialized in "sports medicine" tell me that creatine was a steroid and would make me sterile and shrink my boys. When I tried to talk some sense into him he basically kicked me out of his office saying that he wouldn't be my steroid advisor.
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creatine a steroid....ok it only occurs naturally in beef and other meats. It amazes me how many times I hear that.

I was once in a car with a medical intern and he was spouting off about medical crap. He got on the subject of diabetes, and I mentioned that diabetes is caused by mineral deficiencies, mainly chromium and vanadium. Now this is info that can be found in many medical journals.
But this intern got so pissed at me that he would not talk to me the rest of the night.
I mean, if I was wrong, could he not just say "No, that is not true" and leave it at that? No, he was seriously pissed. It was interesting.

I had an aunt recently break her ribs. She was in a lot of pain. I called her and told her what I had. My mother even said she would pay for it for her. She also has high blood pressure and other ailments. She refused to even try it. (It would have cured her blood pressure too).
She prefered to keep listening to her doctor. Her health is screwed and is going to keep getting worse, but what can i do? I gave her the info, she didn't want it. Ok.
 
I am certainly not a doctor. But I have tons of info on this.
Also, if anyone wanted to know exactly what to do, I could put them in touch with real doctors who know this stuff well, and they could tell you exactly what to do.
 
dalamon said:
The irony is nothing short of amazing.

For your information, I have 3 immediate family members that have suffered from various types of Stage IV cancers. One of them had a sarcoma in his left arm, and he was told that he needed to have it amputated. When he decided to check out naturopathics (he stopped visiting his surgeon, avoided appointments) they x-rayed him again, and they decided to call off the operation because his cancer had regressed. Presently, all three have been cancer free for several years now :) (knock on wood)

I am not saying that that this always happens, nor am I suggesting that naturopathics is superior to classic medical cancer treatment. However, in my opinion, it is the type of thing that really has no sort of harm on the body whatsoever if you follow it. You have nothing to lose, except for paying the naturopath every time you visit. My suggestion to you and your son: Do some research on it, call a local naturopath, and see if he could offer any sort of help whatsoever.
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You and Craig were offering help. I just thought if mantooth was going to whine about craig's advice, yours was similar enough to qualify.
 
oh one more thing: The doctor that I learned all of this from is a naturopath. Well he started out as a veterinarian and did a huge project studying animals that died in zoos.
He found that every animal that died of natural causes, died of nutritional deficiencies. He proved that he could cure and prevent diseases in animals with nutrution. He also did studies on human autopsies for comparison.
He wanted to try his animal formulas on people, so he went back to school and became a naturopath. He then used his formulas on people and it worked.


and by the way, arthritis is easy to fix.
 
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For many years, I got sick every winter. I hated it. It really cut down on how much I could workout, and I just felt like crap. I love winters but i was getting sinus infections and other crap that would last for weeks.
I went to doctors and they had no clue what to do. Oh, they could give me anti-biotics, but they could not stop the flus from coming back over and over. Many of the doctors would tell me that I should just stop working out so much. That pissed me off.

Finally a friend told me about some medical practitioner who probably could help me. At first, I was not anxious to go, but since my friend had taken my advice quite a few times, I felt like I should at least give his a chance.

When I first me this guy, he told me right away that I would not be getting sick anymore. Well, that was a whole lot better than any doctor had ever told me. He did some interesting things that I still don't understand, and put me on some herbs (not dope).

Well, since I first met him, I have not been sick for 2 winters. I don't care what anyone says, he got results. You think I listen to him? Oh yes.
And this is not the naturopath that I have been talking about.
 
craig2112 said:
For many years, I got sick every winter. I hated it. It really cut down on how much I could workout, and I just felt like crap. I love winters but i was getting sinus infections and other crap that would last for weeks.
I went to doctors and they had no clue what to do. Oh, they could give me anti-biotics, but they could not stop the flus from coming back over and over. Many of the doctors would tell me that I should just stop working out so much. That pissed me off.

Finally a friend told me about some medical practitioner who probably could help me. At first, I was not anxious to go, but since my friend had taken my advice quite a few times, I felt like I should at least give his a chance.

When I first me this guy, he told me right away that I would not be getting sick anymore. Well, that was a whole lot better than any doctor had ever told me. He did some interesting things that I still don't understand, and put me on some herbs (not dope).

Well, since I first met him, I have not been sick for 2 winters. I don't care what anyone says, he got results. You think I listen to him? Oh yes.
And this is not the naturopath that I have been talking about.
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I for one would like to know how to avoid the winter gomboo or whatever it is. I think I am allergic to fungus or something, maybe the mice that come indoors or the mold that grows on dampness or something. . . . nutritional support for immune system? A couple of years ago I got some medicine for toenail fungus and just zapped my whole self with it, and it was one of the much-decried statins, but it did the job in about three days. I've been thinking I needed it again these past few weeks.
 
So in looking at a bone cancer, I think that is one of the areas where you can nuke it with radiation pretty good, and then implant some healthy marrow cells, and maybe win that way. And given the essential nutritional support, the bone can repair itself good as new. . . . er. . . . ever. How much risk is there of it spreading? How fast can it be zapped? There's also some pretty good prosthetics nowadays and it's not like he couldn't wear shoes or walk fairly normally, I think/hope. I hope some of the other approaches as mentioned above could be tried as well. There are of course also some side effects to any effective substance, but the thing I like about naturopathy is the attempt to understand the natural body capacities and work with them/use them/strengthen them. Too bad most of the herbs are not "standardized" or quantified in a way so that good research data could be generated. Not a lot of volunteers for double blind studies in the herbal practitioners' offices, and certainly not a lot of well-conceived and well-funded research projects in the whole field.
 
Condolences to the OP. That is absolutely heartbreaking.
 
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