Be sure to take your Vitamin C!

So today I will start an 8-week, twice per week, Vitamin C IV regimen. I go to my Naturopath, Dr. Dramov, from 1:45 till about 3:45 on Mondays and Thursdays and he will put a large dosage of Vitamin C in my with an IV. I did this once back in October, but because it is $100 per visit and I didn't have the money, we tried to get the insurance company to pay it.

Recently, Dr. Dramov called and said somebody wishes to take care of the cost of this. I do not know who, or even if I know them personally, but we're going forward with it. Jeanah and I have discussed it and prayed about it and we think we would be crazy not to do it and see if it has any effect on the tumor.

Since the tumor has not grown or shrunken in the last two PET scans, it will be interesting to see if doing the Vitamin C IV does anything. I will be doing going in for another PET scan on April 5, so we shall see if it does anything.

Dr. Dramov is confident that this is enough time to see an improvement if one is going to occur from the Vitamin C IV. Our goal is to be able to use the Vitamin C to "shrink the tumor out of existence" or at least "make the SUV number go to below 2.5" which is in the "normal" range.

Both Dr. Chang and Dr. Dramov say that the SUV number being higher than 2.5 on the last 2 PET scans could mean that there is either still cancerous cells having activity and/or healing taking place in that region. Since the tumor has not gotten larger, there is a good chance it is just healing, but it's "tough to tell because of the mass of scar tissue in the area due to the radiation therapy".

All for now...