Hi - 4 months since completing chemotherapy and radiotherapy and have such feelings that things are getting worse , have folk found the same?
it’s an incredibly low feeling that I find so hard to come out of . I’ve had a petct scan and yet to get results and meeting not till next week.
Hi Nige. It is so common to feel low for a while after finishing treatment. I went through a stage of it too. I found that talking about how I was feeling really made a difference. You can access counseling through Macmillan. Ring them and make an enquiry. Things definitely improve but you have to give it time.
Lyn
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You can access counseling through Macmillan. Ring them and make an enquiry.
Lyn
Macmillan have stopped this service
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
As others have said it is not uncommon. It is probably heightened by being in the period between having the PET and getting the results. It is a very difficult time and our minds work though all the scenarios almost all of which, aside from a clear PET, are unlikely.
It’s a struggle to find any kind of ‘new normal’ with such changes that are in a state of flux - the lumps, bumps, having to retake morphine after the pain levels have started to increase over the last two weeks since having a physical examination.
I know there is light at the end of the tunnel, but which bugger turned it off ?!
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
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