Hello, haven’t put anything on in a while. I spoke to my oncologist last weeks my pelvic and liver scans clear. Started to cope better with a cancer diagnosis after awful anxiety for best part of a year. The Macmillan support line have been fantastic. Now I have which I think is sciatica, had it diognoised by GP over the phone. She prescribed pain killers. Unfortunately my mind has gone into overdrive and starting to convince myself it’s cancer back. I’m going to phone my cancer nurse Monday. Is this normal after a cancer diagnosis to feel every pain is the worst case scenario or does it get easier in time?
Hi Nelly1955. Yes it’s totally normal and yes it does get easier over time. Your scans have shown that everything is clear and the cancer wouldn’t have come back and be causing you pain within such a short time period. Unfortunately radiotherapy can have long lasting side effects and I wonder if this has caused your sciatica?
I attached a link to a bowel cancer uk post a couple of days ago - I posted it as it talks about CEA increases but it also covers scanxiety and follow up worries?
https://community.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/forum/13425-raised-cea
Hope you start to feel better soon
Take care
Karen x
Hi Kare, thank you for replying and sending over information. I did the HOPE cause and found it really good and thought I could start coping with set backs. I think what happen is I took pain relief and the pain eased up, I put my foot on a step expected pain and it didn’t happen so I fell over whacking my head on a concrete bird Bath. I was at a friends caravan so I went to the local hospital there because I had quite a big bump on my head but thought pain was leaving but back today but not so intense. You would have thought it would have knocked a bit os sense into me. The doctor there said he wouldn’t give me any scans because I have been exposed to enough radiation. But once again thank you for replying. Hope you are keeping well. Nelly x
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