Breast cancer

I am 33 with breast cancer and the past couple weeks I haven’t stopped thinking about survival after. Everyone keeps telling me to take it Day by day and I do, but I can’t hekp but think. I think about having children then I worry that won’t happen and then I worry if it did would it bring the cancer back and then ultimately I wind up thinking ...well what happens if I make 5 years ...what happens after that.

i haven’t joined forums because I was worried that I may get too lost in them all but I’m getting lost on my own. 

I seem to want answers to all the questions but the questions will always be an unknown so I guess it’s working out how best to deal with them

ive got 12 more chemo ahead of me I need to be strong for them. I focus on people like kylie minogue because she was young when she had it but I find that there aren’t many stories of young women and breast cancer . I may be wrong , this is just what I have felt 

Sarah x 

  • Hi Sarahjanem

    This is a fear that haunts most, if not all, cancer survivors. It's been 7 years since my operation for prostate cancer, and for the first 5 of those I was pretty much terrified it's going to return. I'm a little more relaxed now, but each blood test is still a trial of nerves, and I get really stressed whenever I have any sort of medical procedure for any reason. Currently I've got a throat problem and I'm due an MRI in a few days, and I'm terrified that it's going to be a new primary cancer, even though the chance of that is pretty small. 

    So, you're not alone in these feelings. All I can say is that the fear gradually subsides over time, and you won't feel it all of the time, but it may always be there in the back of your mind. So your choice is either to give in to it and let it beat you, or to face up to it and live your life to the full, despite the fear.