Cancer Support

First, I'm so sorry about your Mom. It is NOT your fault!! Please do all you can for your own health.

There are a lot of studies showing Metformin as a virtual miracle drug for some cancers, in some cases, for some patients. I'd read about it on a cancer forum, looked up the studies, and sent links to my doctors. They wouldn't prescribe it for my cancer, and I don't fit the profile. On the contrary, I have tended to be 'under' weight if anything, and I've had trouble with hyPOglycemia... but there is commonality with high blood sugar.

If cancer is a metabolic disease (as it seems to be), hyPO and hyPERglycemia do the same thing, because in hypoglycemia, blood sugar spikes before it crashes. This is a problem I inherited that my mother, her brother, and all of my sisters have had to manage (although no doctors ever took it seriously because it isn't diabetes -- and by the way, we ALL got cancers of various kinds).

There is an herbal supplement - Berberine - that does much of what Metformin does, although it's tricky because I don't want to lower my blood sugar, but just level it.

Please check in soon and let us know how you are doing!!