Topic: Suzanne Somers has changed her diagnosis

Agreed.  She's doing a lot more harm than good.

Wow, that's an awful lot of hostility there, Dawnbelle. Maybe Ms. Sommers has some dietary advice to help with that?

Good nutrition, ridding ourselves of toxins, eating organic are undeniable healthy choices and strengthen our bodies.  Everyone's dx is different, everyone's body is different.  Perhaps SS has helped some.  Perhaps it has harmed some who may have needed more that she has done to get well.  For example, as some one with Stage IV cancer I've needed something immediate to kill the tumor before it progressed too far for me to survive.  If my cancer were less advanced chemo may not have been required, as with my Mom -- she's a 15 yr BC survivor and never did chemo (lump and rads only).  And it is undeniable that we haven't progressed very far in curing or managing this disease.

Anywhooo -- I did like that kettle-pot comeback.  I love you Dawn -- I hope you know that.  Still fantasizing about living on a farm in Alabama with all your animals...

Edit:  Forgot that Mom was on a tamox trial too -- I think that helped her too.

SS basically told everyone here,  who is fighting the battle of BC, that there is not hope for us taking treatment.  She has a platform on these news shows to market her book.  She can fianancially afford to try any alternative therapies and be treated by any Dr. she wants.  She's making money off of  women with cancer who buy her books looking for hope.  She pissed me off just listening to her today saying that Farrah Faucet lost her battle to cancer after 3 rounds of chemo and radiation.  She is enjoying publicity and financial gain "blaming the victims' for their cancer.  They're just not according to her eating healthy enough, positive enough, smart enough, hormonally complete enough and so on.  I wish the networks were not giving her a platform to sell her "snake oil"

It is so funny that the first post I read today is about Suzanne Somers.  As I was getting my Zometa infusion this morning, I read an article about women who are getting injections of hormones to help them look younger.  The author mentioned that Suzanne Somers was one of these women who sang the praises of hormone injections.  He also went on to say that she had a history of breast cancer and had a hysterectomy due to abnormal cells in her uterus - both of which have been attributed to hormone therapy (from the author, not me).  So, while I am sure that eating a healthy diet does help, I will not take advice from someone who apparently injects her body with untested substances for vanity's sake with no concern for the risks.

Susan

A hospital full of real doctors would not have diagnosed her with full body cancer and only 3 months to live.

Give me a break.  No one calls it full-body cancer anyway.

I only wish that I had not been told 7 years ago that my stage 4 cancer was progressing rapidly.

Thank God, the chemo worked, no credit to SS.

She originally said she had BC because she was seen exiting a liposuction clinic while promoting her Thigh-Master.

Total fraud and I stand by my original words.

I am a Reach-to-Recovery counseling  coordinator and trainer for Western PA and I have done a lot of research.  Anyone who believes SS is extremely naive.

"You know, I am stage I & it has been made clear how we have NO place here."

Nobody ever said that.

I just poured my self a glass of wine..Alice White...Lexia..yumm! 

Oh and for the record...Suzanne Sommers is an idiot. But even with Stage I BC I would welcome her here to post!

Perfect time for a glass of wine.

Gee Dawnbelle.  None of the reasons you listed are why people might think you were an idiot.  Your words, not mine.

Dawn, Dawn, Dawn -- I was one of the people who suggested starting the "Concerned about mets" forum -- that's what it's there for.  Because there's a need for factual information for any one of us concerned about mets -- and there's a need for a "social forum" for women LIVING with mets.

It's really not mean-ness, it's just two distinct things.  And yes, women have been getting plenty of information in the "concerned about mets" forum - from plenty of women who are living with Stage IV...

Dawn -- if someone came to the atheist/agnostic thread who made a big point of not being an atheist/agnostic, wouldn't you redirect them?  You go there to gather with people who can relate to each other on that issue.

Similarly, the function of the Stage IV thread is to "connect with women who share the same diagnosis: further treatment and ups and downs."

The function of the "concerned about mets thread" is to seek information. 

I'm not gonna trigger another round of drinks, LOL -- I'm not Stage IV and I know I am welcome here! 

I'll drink to that, Kellyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

xoxoxox

Hey Dawn, lots of women here go to the concerned about mets section and answer questions. 

Hey - BadBoob/Diane - we've all been wondering/worried about you!  Good to see you again!  I was wondering if you were still doing Navy Beans, and if you're neuropathy was getting any better?  Glad to see you're no longer MIA!

dawn - Wow! "Take me or leave me" - If you are too much I will read over your post.  IMO: Susan Somers only wants to make money and who knows if she ever had breast cancer but that is her business - I do not read anything she writes nor do I look at any of her interviews.  She has never helped me.