Life after treatment and feeling alone

Hi LTC44 and congratulations on getting through it all and coming out the other end.  It will probably take some time from the date you finished treatment to feeling normal again.  A lot of people feel changed by cancer and so it can be a new kind of normal but slowly slowly it will hopefully dominate your thoughts less and less.

If you click HERE there is an article written by a psycologist that lots of people find helpful.

For me personally I feel the chances of it returning while I'm on hormone tablets are very minimal so I don't find my self worrying about it.  Not sure how am going to feel after 5 years are up and I'm no longer on them but for now I am in a good place with it all.

Apparently 1 in 2 of us our going to get cancer in our lifetimes and my thinking is that all those people who have a 50% chance of getting cancer aren't spending their time worrying about it so why should I.  Having had cancer once already I feel my chances of getting it again are less than 1 in 2.  Add to that the fact that every concern I have is taken more seriously and investigate more thoroughly by doctors because I have a history of cancer makes me feel suitably looked after and reassured that anything wrong will get caught early.

I had an inflamed thyroid recently and was sent straight to the radiologist only because of my history of breast cancer otherwise I would have had to wait at least 6 weeks like a non cancer patient would to see if it resolved itself. 

We are all different and we all cope with this differently but hopefully the above helps you at least a little.

Be patient and be kind to yourself and keep reaching out to people on here as that's another thing that has really helped me.

Sending hugs x

Thank you for your message that’s very kind and will click on the link x

Hello I just wanted to let you know about a brilliant book that helped me when my treatment finished a couple of weeks ago.  It's by Jen Rozenbaum called "what the **** just happened". 

I laughed and cried through the chapters, it was very reassuring that my feelings and anxieties were totally normal. It's the first BC related book I have read which I really related to, it's positive and uplifting.

There is a Facebook page too which I have just joined.

With best wishes.

Thank you I will have a look for that and the FB page. 
Thats very kind. 

Hello. I'm usually on the main BC forum but pop in every now and then to this one. There is a course run by Breast Cancer Now called Moving Forward. I did it and it was a help but for me, I think i did it too soon after I had finished. I think it all done by zoom still but there is access to some good material to help you. Have a look on their website. Its a free course. 

I just wanted to say a massive thank you for the article which helped me tremendously to make sense of it all after treatment I never expect to be in limbo...somehow what I was experiencing was exactly bang on as what Dr Harvey said! 

C x