Hi Mollysue,

A very warm welcome to our forum.

I am delighted to hear that you only need regular monitoring and no further treatment. A cruise sounds just the medicine you need to pick you up and I hope that you get great benefit from it.

Please keep in touch and let us know how you get on. We are always here for you.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx

Hi im John,

I have prostate cancer  aggressive  stage 3, im on hormone implants,  and not long finished radiotherapy,  i feel the same lost everyone means well,  but they don't see truly how i am, I see im not alone how im feeling, 

Thank you 

Hi John,

A very warm welcome to the forum.

This post is 3 years old and I'm not sure whether Botwinkle is still active on the forum. I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis. It is good to see that you have finished radiotherapy and I hope that the hormone implants are working for you. 

You are certainly not alone with how you are feeling! Regardless of what type of cancer, many of us tend to feel like this. I am now 16 years down the line from 2 bouts of breast cancer and can relate to what you say. Unless your family and friends have previously been touched by cancer, they have little idea of what a diagnosis entails.

If you put some key words related to how you feel in the "search forum" box at the top of this page, you'll find more recent posts from others who feel the same.

People often complain about losing friends when they get a cancer diagnosis. Initially, I did lose some people, who I had considered to be good friends and I was upset about this. Since then, I have made far more genuine friends, who have appeared from some most unexpected quarters. I have discovered that a positive attitude to our situation is a great help in coping with this disease and, as my attitude has become more positive throughout the years, I have become more successful in making friends.

Loneliness can be a big problem too. It is hard to get out to meet people when we are tied up with treatments, not feeling well or are too fatigued to venture out - we don't meet many people when we're sitting in our own homes!

I hope that, with the passage of time, you will be less dejected by how you feel. Now that you have found this forum, you need never feel lonely again. There is always someone here to chat and offer advice or support.

Please keep in touch. We are always here for you.

Kind regards,

Jolamine

You have certainly been through the mill Jolamine, 

Bless you,

Your right about friends disappearing  i have had quite a few doing exactly that, 

Im just trying to move on, and maybe find a little love or companionship,  I feel  like I still have something to offer in life, 

Kind regards 

John 

Hi John, I just replied to your other thread.  I see you have prostrate cancer and completed your radiotherapy.  It is hard to move on when you don't feel like your old self and people expect you to be who you were before the cancer.  Cancer changes you and it is difficult to deal with sometimes.  Penny Brohn is a cancer charity and they do online courses for people who have completed treatment to try and help them move on.  Glad you found this forum, it certainly helps me.  Happy to chat anytime.  I have incurable breast cancer with extensive bone mets, but still lead a good life.

Lee x

Bless you, we are not in a good place for sure, 

But we can be ok, as in there is still life to live

Im also able to chat, I live alone anyway,  

John x