Hi there, I think it is perfectly normal to feel rather lost and panicked after finishing active treatment. You spend so long going from appointment to appointment, from tests to diagnosis to treatments and more tests that it's only when it stops that you sit back and realise the toll it has taken, both physically and emotionally. I have had fantastic help from chatting to the wonderfully caring folk on here,  expressing your fears to people who really understand can be a great relief and I hope you come to find this too. In my case I have also been invited to attend a Moving Forward course run by Breast Cancer Care which is focused on exactly this issue, what to do after treatment has stopped, it covers different topics all relating to ongoing recovery. Perhaps Macmillan can suggest a similiar kind of course for you? Their website details different support groups and/or individual counselling sessions too. The main aim is to realise that you are not just abandoned after treatment is over and that there is help out there for all of us, whatever the issues. Take care of yourself and do let me know how you get on.  Sue xx

Hi Gunnerlass,

I think most people feel like this when treatment has fiinished. As the lovely Sue has quite rightly stated, you have been kept busy with visits to the hospital for treatments and appiontments and then suddeny nothing much is happening. Its well known that this happens to a lot of people. I reacted when my treatment finnished by focusing on getting my life back to as near normal as possible and by enjoying my life.

Its often said you dont know what you have until you lose it, well it also applies when you are told you have cancer. It makes you realize just what you have and what you stand to lose. I can honestly say, even though I appreciated all I had, since having had prostate cancer, my appreciation levels for the simple litle things we all take so much for granted, has more than doubled. 

I wish you a speedy recovery, take care, Brian.