I am so emotional
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Is there something you can take to help with this overwelming crying emotion...I don't really feel like I am scared of dying or the disease...I have been down this road before twice any suggestions
GrannyC
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Yep...been there done that.......tootsie1 said:*hugs*
Hey, Granny.
If you can work it out, I think it would be good to see a counselor or take part in a support group to discuss these feelings. You have a lot to process right now.
*hugs*
Gail
The generic form of prozac called Florextine(sp)...I started one 10 mgs per day then moved to 20 mgs per day and it allowed me to not dwell on this disease or the thought of dying...It gave me my life and my smile back....It took about two weeks before I started to notice the effect..It didn't change me, it changed my outlook....I no longer take it but seem to be ok with all of it now...It really, really, did help me through the rough times when nothing, I mean nothing else could......................
It actually restarts the neuro transmitter signals that your brain puts out causing the good endorphins to be produced....You see if enough bad things come to you and you are constantly upset, stressed, or just completely withdrawn, then the brain tells the neuro transmitters to shut down causing them to quit producing the "happy Juice" that makes you smile....Prozac or generic form tricks those transmitters into allowing those signals to be delivered thus causing you to be ok again....................
It simply makes you feel better without changing the "you"........buzz0 -
This comment has been removed by the ModeratorBuzzard said:Yep...been there done that.......
The generic form of prozac called Florextine(sp)...I started one 10 mgs per day then moved to 20 mgs per day and it allowed me to not dwell on this disease or the thought of dying...It gave me my life and my smile back....It took about two weeks before I started to notice the effect..It didn't change me, it changed my outlook....I no longer take it but seem to be ok with all of it now...It really, really, did help me through the rough times when nothing, I mean nothing else could......................
It actually restarts the neuro transmitter signals that your brain puts out causing the good endorphins to be produced....You see if enough bad things come to you and you are constantly upset, stressed, or just completely withdrawn, then the brain tells the neuro transmitters to shut down causing them to quit producing the "happy Juice" that makes you smile....Prozac or generic form tricks those transmitters into allowing those signals to be delivered thus causing you to be ok again....................
It simply makes you feel better without changing the "you"........buzz0 -
i tookunknown said:This comment has been removed by the Moderator
ativan and since my dx of stage 4 in feb 2011 i am going to see if i can take them again.it helped me....Godbless...johnnybegood0 -
A Normal Progression...
Dear GC,
Simply put, your subconscious is working overtime for you right now. Your mind is coming to grips with what you are faced with once again. You already have a good inkling of what you are up against and you're wrestling with that in your mind right now....trying to get a handle and a stopping point where you can assimilate the feeings and emotions that may not be apparent to you on the surface at this time.
Sometimes, the best thing is to just "ride it out" and let your emotions and feelings take you were you need to go. That's a normal release and an outlet - just let it go when you have the need and then when it passes, move forward the best you can.
I think, as a society, that we tend to "over-medicate" everything. Take a pill for this, and take a pill for that - and it will all go away for you. But being medicated all the time, suppresses your inner feelings and hinders part of the healing process - that necessary entity, where you need to have permission to feel the way you do.
Instead of bottling it up, just release it naturally and let it flow - in time, things will return to normal and this will become a thing of the past. You've suffered trauma and the body is just reacting to that trauma.
Of course, if one really needs help with medication, then I fully support that...everyone is different. I've never felt the need, when times like these hit me, I let my emotions and the tears fall (privately) and then I re-directed my energy towards this board and used that event to help others here. That's been a good therapy for me.
My onc even went so far recently to prescribe me Paxil - told him I'm not depressed and that taking a pill was not going to help me with systemic controlled poisoning that was being introduced into my body - I hurt from toxic chemicals and a pill is not going to make that feel any better. He never pushed back after that and I told him I'm not filling it - I'm smart enough to know if I need something like that.
On my journey, I've discovered many things, but emotions are normal with a cancer battle and I think just letting Mother Nature do some of the work, can ease a good many things. The MIND is one of the strongest drugs in our aresenal.
And our MIND has to be right, to FIGHT. So, don't beat yourself up over this.
I'm nearly at 7-years of active fighting with 3 cancer recurrences - 4 major surgeries - and multiple stabs with chemo and radiation. I'm on no medication except chemo.
If you become debilitated or unable to function, a new plan may need to be made - but before that, try riding this cycle out and see where it takes you.
All the best!
-Craig0 -
But.......Sundanceh said:A Normal Progression...
Dear GC,
Simply put, your subconscious is working overtime for you right now. Your mind is coming to grips with what you are faced with once again. You already have a good inkling of what you are up against and you're wrestling with that in your mind right now....trying to get a handle and a stopping point where you can assimilate the feeings and emotions that may not be apparent to you on the surface at this time.
Sometimes, the best thing is to just "ride it out" and let your emotions and feelings take you were you need to go. That's a normal release and an outlet - just let it go when you have the need and then when it passes, move forward the best you can.
I think, as a society, that we tend to "over-medicate" everything. Take a pill for this, and take a pill for that - and it will all go away for you. But being medicated all the time, suppresses your inner feelings and hinders part of the healing process - that necessary entity, where you need to have permission to feel the way you do.
Instead of bottling it up, just release it naturally and let it flow - in time, things will return to normal and this will become a thing of the past. You've suffered trauma and the body is just reacting to that trauma.
Of course, if one really needs help with medication, then I fully support that...everyone is different. I've never felt the need, when times like these hit me, I let my emotions and the tears fall (privately) and then I re-directed my energy towards this board and used that event to help others here. That's been a good therapy for me.
My onc even went so far recently to prescribe me Paxil - told him I'm not depressed and that taking a pill was not going to help me with systemic controlled poisoning that was being introduced into my body - I hurt from toxic chemicals and a pill is not going to make that feel any better. He never pushed back after that and I told him I'm not filling it - I'm smart enough to know if I need something like that.
On my journey, I've discovered many things, but emotions are normal with a cancer battle and I think just letting Mother Nature do some of the work, can ease a good many things. The MIND is one of the strongest drugs in our aresenal.
And our MIND has to be right, to FIGHT. So, don't beat yourself up over this.
I'm nearly at 7-years of active fighting with 3 cancer recurrences - 4 major surgeries - and multiple stabs with chemo and radiation. I'm on no medication except chemo.
If you become debilitated or unable to function, a new plan may need to be made - but before that, try riding this cycle out and see where it takes you.
All the best!
-Craig
LOL....sorry Craig, not to override you because it does matter who is taking it..I am off the med now and I can tell that I do tear up at everything that is not upbeat...and yes, it is because of my thoughts about where this will lead me and longevity of my life may be...The only way for me to function was to use the medication, and should be back on it but I try and not do anything to keep my body as medicinal free as possible...and everywhere I go I find myself thinking of things I shouldn't and can literally shed horse tears because there is nothing that takes my mind off of it except for medication, I just try and stay away from all things sad, for if I dwell on anything to long I lose it...I do think some need it to cope, I think I am one of them, I just want to stay as medicine free as I can and am trading control over emotion for that freedom from all meds......buzz0 -
I think we all feel the sameBuzzard said:But.......
LOL....sorry Craig, not to override you because it does matter who is taking it..I am off the med now and I can tell that I do tear up at everything that is not upbeat...and yes, it is because of my thoughts about where this will lead me and longevity of my life may be...The only way for me to function was to use the medication, and should be back on it but I try and not do anything to keep my body as medicinal free as possible...and everywhere I go I find myself thinking of things I shouldn't and can literally shed horse tears because there is nothing that takes my mind off of it except for medication, I just try and stay away from all things sad, for if I dwell on anything to long I lose it...I do think some need it to cope, I think I am one of them, I just want to stay as medicine free as I can and am trading control over emotion for that freedom from all meds......buzz
I think we all feel the same way, you go for the surgery to remove the cancer.....assume the chemo. will kill off the remaining cancer and hope to have your life back to where it was before this horrible diagnosis.....all I want is my old carefree life back!!! When you see on this board people fighting it back for years I just don't know that I have it in me to do that. I've had three chemo treatments so far, tomorrow will be #4 and I'm sick of going to the hospital already. Chemo is going well, no horrible side effects, but one would wish that once chemo is done there will be no more cancer, but it seems that's not the way it goes, extremely depressing, I too cry at the drop of a hat thinking about what's to come. I think about it constantly.0 -
Its a mortality issue .........smokeyjoe said:I think we all feel the same
I think we all feel the same way, you go for the surgery to remove the cancer.....assume the chemo. will kill off the remaining cancer and hope to have your life back to where it was before this horrible diagnosis.....all I want is my old carefree life back!!! When you see on this board people fighting it back for years I just don't know that I have it in me to do that. I've had three chemo treatments so far, tomorrow will be #4 and I'm sick of going to the hospital already. Chemo is going well, no horrible side effects, but one would wish that once chemo is done there will be no more cancer, but it seems that's not the way it goes, extremely depressing, I too cry at the drop of a hat thinking about what's to come. I think about it constantly.
as we all think we are immortal when we are growing up and the mindset is instilled in us that that is the way it is...Then comes the ole thing called cancer and we soon see just how mortal we really are.....Its a slap across the nose and it really opens our eyes about our mortality, and how real it actually is..........I do think though that once one determines that life on this earth will end someday and there is nothing we can do as mortals to stop it, and we really get this new found thought instilled as much as the immortal status was in our earlier years, that we can finally learn to cope with this better than we thought we could. Enjoy everything in your path and keep doing that.......buzz0 -
Oh Dear
I know that weepy thing, well out right sobbing, heart wrenching cries, the ones I did when first diagnosed. And the heavens only know how I will react when (I know too well now, from many here it's a great possibility)I'm told I have another. I keep trying not to think about when the other shoe will drop. I chastise myself when I catch myself thinking about it.
So GrannyC I'm just thinking it's because it's back, and you already know the fight you had to use the first time and it's just overwhelming at the moment. These were natural feelings for me at first, I think they lasted a couple of months. I didn't take pills but probably because I'm not a pill person, I can never remember to take the dang things. I haven't cried over my cancer for at least the past six months, I think it's because I used up all the tears in the first couple of months. I didn't know a person could cry sooo much as I did then.
Thinking of you,
Sending you cyber hugs and a bit of cyber hand holding as you cry in the night.
Winter Marie0 -
I just found your post. I
I just found your post. I can relate to it because when I got the news of colon cancer i was in shock. Then 5 yrs and a few months later cea rising, mets to liver. resection, then chemo ending Feb. 2010. Great scans all year. a month ago perfect bloodwork. One more ct for the road. It showed a lesion on liver. now this monday an appt. with the surgeon. I got hysterical. I could not stop crying. I was sure it was gone and now I know, if I have to do it again, what it will be like. So I think we deserve to cry before we begin to fight again. I also got a script for an antidepressent. It helped tremendously. I took it for about 2 weeks and then I started to forget to take them. So i guess they got me through the worse part of the shock.
Hugs and prayers coming your way,
Judy0 -
depression pills & nightmares
I took Paxil and Zoloft in past years for depression and though I did have nightmares and night sweats at first, they went away after a few weeks. I try not to medicate, but if you need assistance getting through a rough time then I think you should go for it.
Janine0
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