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Treatment now finished but still worried

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Hi, I would love to hear from anyone who can help please.

I had chemo and radiotherapy,  which finished 4 weeks ago. Now that it is all over I often get feelings of complete panic (mostly at night) now that everything is finished. I have a follow up appointment in March but keep panicking thinking the cancer has returned. I had it removed during a hysterectomy so treatment was just an insurance policy (thats what my consultant called it).

I'm trying to do more and get out and about but I just can't help these feelings, verging on the morbid sometimes. Ive been given numbers by Macmillan to ring but I just can't pick the phone up. Hoping someone on here has been or going thru the same thing.

Thanks in advance x

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    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.

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    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.

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