Yes, check with your team. My Primary Care Physician believes in integrated care, but even she wanted me to wait until all the chemo was behind me before we added in anything new. Some can interfere with the effectiveness of the chemo drugs, and of course, we don't know everything (yet) about possible combos, so we waited. Now that my treatments are behind me, she is more open, especially if I can show her ahead of time why something has sparked my interest.

@A MyBCTeam Member: Hi! The only vitamins I was advised to take through treatment were vitamin D and B12. I was advised against C, E & anything with antioxidants (I.e. green tea). Cancer treatment works a bit differently than say, treating the flu. With the flu you take vitamins to try to build your system back up. With cancer, the purpose of treatment, especially chemo, is to kill all the fast growing & dividing cancer cells, but in order to do that they kill the good cells too. Think of it like when they tear a house down to the studs to fix a major leak - once they dry it all and remove the damaged material and make the repairs, you can start rebuilding it all again. Make sense?

Really the best thing you can do through treatment is eat as well and balanced as you can, keep getting as much physical activity as you feel you can handle, reduce stress as much as possible (tough, I know) and get lots of good rest. 💖

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I started vitamins zinc & melatonin recently recommended by a NATURALPATH DOC

I am taking Calcium and D3 and also just a Womens Multivitamin on my doctors recommendation.

I would double check with my onco doc, but I take a multivitamin and a super B complex and Vitamin D.