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DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK LIKE ME
Well, this has been milling around in my head for a bit now so I have decided to post it and get a feel for what my fellow survivors are feeling. I have had breast cancer three times, the second one came six months after i had finished my treatments for the first and it had mast. so I was a stage 4. I did a bunch of chemo…
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Feeling blue
Hi everyone, I had my 2yr anniversary of my diagnosis of breast ca. in April and had an ovarian cancer scare a couple weeks ago(turned out ok though). I notice though that I have anxiety and a bit of depression ever since. I actually wake up in the morning with that nervous feeling in my stomach. I previously had these…
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Is cancer a mental illness
Hi everyone; I am a 45 year old schizophrenic that smokes a lot and believe that cancer may be a mental illness. Yeh, this guy is crazy. Maybe a "unit of mind" is trying to manifest physically by occupying the flesh (or bone) and is trying to grow but does not know how because this quantum of mind has no instructions and…
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Tamoxifen & Sex Drive???
Hello Everyone, My intent is not to offend anyone. I take this as a prevention. My pregnant sister and mom were told they had cancer 2 years ago. I was going in for my first mamagram and they thought they saw something and because of the history that just popped up in my family they deem me as high risk. After taking it…
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Mom's death has been very difficult
My mom passed away from breast cancer last November and it has been a very difficult thing to deal with. I thought I had worked my way passed it, but recently it seems that may not be the case. Coupled with other stress in my life I experienced a bad panic attack that lasted for several hours. It was very frightening for a…
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My mom is nearing the end
My mom was diagnosed 3 wks after I was diagnosed with breast cancer with colon CA with mets to the liver. It was too advanced for surgery so she started chemo. Actually, we started chemo on the same day and went together every other week for 4 months. My chemo stopped, hers never did. This was 2 yrs ago. She has been…
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Looking for sucess stories
I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in February. I've been inspired by some of the success stories of survivors of metastatic cancer who have beat incredible odds and are alive for many years. I was wondering if anyone that fits this category or knows someone who has could share these stories with me. It really…