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@loribmt

Hi @joeeduffy, I know you’re desperately seeking advice about your husband’s potential diagnosis of CLL. What I want to caution you about is falling for these quick fixes or snake oil salesmen promising cures! Honestly, if it was this easy to cure cancer with a hemp oil or for me, a well meaning friend told me to drink a quart of raw asparagus juice daily…wow, there would be no more cancer! But it doesn’t work that way. While there is some validity to holistic/naturopathy supplements, please don’t fall victim to these miracle cures. Some of these treatments can be lethal, cause very serious side effects or interfere with medications that are working for your husband. Most are not regulated or meet any specific standards of quality or potency.

A number of members and myself have already given you a ton of valuable, credible information about CLL. Your husband has most likely had this blood cancer for quite some time already. So basically his life hasn’t changed except he has now been presented with blood tests that show he has some differences in values that need further testing to get a firm diagnosis. The positive is that he’s also decided to make dietary changes and stop smoking. Those two things are hugely important to overall health. ☺️

CLL, as we’ve told you, is generally very slow to develop. IF and WHEN treatment is necessary, which may not be for many years, statistically it is one of the most successfully treated blood cancers with good longevity. It’s all in previous information that I gave you in prior comments so I hope you take the time to read those replies over again. I don’t mean to sound patronizing…but please, just take a breath and let it out slowly. You are both going to get through this and realize that life may not change much.

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@loribmt Again I’ve found your response to @joeeduffy to be very positive and encouraging to me. When I was diagnosed in November 2023, I basically put my life on hold. I now try to move on and live my day to day life as if I didn’t have this disease and pray that I will never need treatments. 🙏