I have Breast cancer which has metastasised into my bones and liver. I was told 3 1/2 years ago that the prognosis was a life span of 3 - 5 years. Since then I have been on medication to stop production of estrogen and another tablet to stabilise the cancer from spreading further. Not curable but has been stable for 3 1/2 years.
The consultant has taken me off the above tablets for a month and then introduced a lower dosage to help with the fatigue, lengthened the periods between scans and changed the appointments to telephone appointments.
i have to say these changes have really rattled my emotional state of mind. I feel as though I have now been disregarded because I have been stable. Surely, with the changes it would be pertinent to just make sure things continued on a stable path.
I have tried to speak to my husband but he just doesn’t get v it. In fact he suggested I was ‘needy’ which hurt like hell!
I know that I should have faith in the consultants but rationally or irrationally I feel like I no longer matter, cause I am not getting worse. I know there are people who are in a much worse place than me, I suppose I just want to feel like they are still interested.
