Hi Chris,
There is absolutely no reason you can't heal yourself other than that you don't research and DO the most potent alternative treatments and diet.
A great cure-all diet used by Dr. Lorraine Day, a physician and surgeon from San Francisco, to heal her metastasized cancer will be found here:
http://drday.com/
Probably the most potent and least expensive of all the alternative substances you could use, which has healed thousands and thousands of people of malaria within 48 hours, many of cancer, aids, herpes, hepatitis, etc. is MMS. I'm taking it myself right now.
You can sign up as a Re-seller (for free) and purchase it at half price here:
http://MmsMiracle.com (not a referral link) It won't cost you much more than $30-$40 per year (with shipping). I've done a lot of research on it and if you want me to email you the info I've compiled, just send me a PM.
I'm confident that you can heal yourself.
Nancy