ANYONE HAD ANY EXPERIENCE WITH HIGH DOSE IV VITAMIN C??

Tethys41 said:

IV vitamin C
Hi Maggie,
I have been receving high does IV vitamin C since just after my second chemo. I can't say enough good things about it. The vitamin C made the chemo much more tolerable. I posted an item on this board back in April titled, "Information on IV vitamin C use for cancer treatment" which explains what it does. I completed chemo in March of 2010 and still receive IVC as a preventative. There is another member of this board who does the same, Nancy707. Both of us are doing well and have avoided a recurrence up to this point.
A couple of other things you may find interesting are Iscador and bindweed (C-statin). Hope this helps.

LaundryQueen said:

IV ascorbic acid treatments
I've been getting 50-75Gm ascorbic acid (aka vitamin C) IV treatments since shortly after I was diagnosed with epithelial papillary serous ovarian cancer last year in October. Sometimes, I took the treatments immediately before chemo--my oncologist was OK with the treatments.

There was some research done at Memorial Sloan Kettering on oral ascorbic acid that indicated it helped to protect the cancer against chemo. This doesn't seem to be the case when the drug is given IV. There is a clinical trial going on in Canada using the high-dose IV ascorbic acid along with chemo. I don't know when those results will be in.

A similar trial was started in the US and stopped by the FDA--it had something to do with ascorbic acid was not approved for use in cancer. So don't expect any conventional doctor to treat you with the IV ascorbic acid.

I see an osteopath who does integrative medicine and does acupunture, homeopathy, laser therapy in addition to the IV ascorbic acid treatments. There is a new book out called Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative & Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How. That book has a LOT of different treatments but it is a little overwhelming even to me (and I have been working in the natural medicine field x 15 years).

I have not been able to maintain a normal CA-125 for the past month (the number is over 150); however, I have no ascites and the MRI scan looks slightly improved from 4 months ago when my CA-125 was < 10.

I was deemed stage IIIc / grade 3 at the time of surgery. I had a conversation with the oncology nurse who agreed that I may have actually been stage IV as malignant pleural effusions were found around my lungs shortly after surgery. I didn't have any chest imaging done pre-operatively and the pleural effusions may have been present at the time of surgery.

All things considered, I believe that I am doing pretty well overall. The only residual symptoms that I have that reminds me of my diagnosis is poor stamina & fatigue. My ears were ringing for a couple of months after I finished chemo but acupuncture helped that.

I have done a LOT more then the ascorbic acid (herbs and various nutritional supplements) so I don't know if the ascorbic acid gets all the credit for the fact that I have never had any of the bone/joint pains or residual neuropathy. I did have transient neuropathy for the week after chemo but it never lasted very long.

There was some research that was done on prostate cancer that showed the IV ascorbic acid helped to avoid chemoresistance. If the ascites does return or the MRI shows progression of the disease, I'll be back on chemo in the fall. Meanwhile, I've started on a product made from bindweed that has anti-angiogenic properties (similar to Avastin).

LQ