Advice on managing mood ?

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Hi everyone , so I started my immunotherapy last Monday , ok so far , some tiredness , low level headache all week but I’m grateful that’s been it thus far ….. my mood however has took a nosedive … and I feel flatter than a flat thing at low tide …. I’m recovering from finishing my chemo / radiotherapy which ended at the start of December … so I’ve still got some of the side effects from that , sore gullet , some fatigue, some aches and pains which I’m assuming is scarring/ inflammation aches and pains and then I’ve gone straight into immunotherapy … and I guess on the whole up to now my side effects have been manageable whereas my anxiety has rocketed mainly due to facing this thing and all it’s challenges…. I talk to others that seem to maintain their positive outlook through all this and want so much to feel the same but struggle to do that quite honestly … I’m out walking everyday , meditating and do have some counselling and I know I’m not on my own, feeling fearful etc but I’m looking for any tips that others employ to keep their mood up despite the ups and downs of the cancer “journey “ ….thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions …. I have so much admiration for anyone managing to maintain positivity throughout these treatments , constant worries etc much love Elly xx

Kegsy over 2 years ago

Hi Ellie

Are you at The Christie (I have a feeling you are)?

If yes, you could try one of the following;

1. Contact the Complementary Therapy Team (it used to be a on a 'Walk-In basis but not sure how it works now. Thy maybe able to help you with relaxation techniques etc.

2. Ask to be referred to the In-House Clinical Psychiatry Team who will be able to help you to develop coping strategies which can be used for both the cancer journey and across life in general.

Worth a try?

Kegsy x

"If you are going through hell, keep going" ; Sir Winston Churchill

" Cancer may take my life; however it will not become my life" Kegsy August 2011

EllyB over 2 years ago in reply to Kegsy

hi Kegsy , hope you’re well ? Thanks for the reply love , yes I’m at the Christie and I have contacted the complimentary team on a few occasions and they have accompanied me on a few of my treatments when my anxiety has been high , they are fantastic …. I’ve also been referred to the oncology psychologists but they are extremely busy , long wait after referral at the Christie at the moment …. Meanwhile I’m doing all of can myself to keep my mood stable , had my 6 counselling sessions from bupa but they finished awhile ago … I’m exercising , meditating , kicking myself up the behind regularly but for whatever reason my mood is flat this last week or so …. I even got myself in a tizz about whether to go ahead with immunotherapy and was helped out of that hole by a couple of good friends on here …and of course I turned up for it because that’s my part of the deal …. Maybe it’s not feeling like I had enough time between the chemo /radiotherapy 6 weeks , before straight into the next treatment… I should be blumming grateful that I can have it instead of feeling like a popped balloon ! . Or I’m just feeling blumming sorry for myself…. Love Elly x

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