A new one for me - PARANOIA

its hard to know but I went thru depression and axiety.  Its hard to say with your husband since you said he has no previous record or paranoia.   Could be the meds so indeed check with the doctors.  You did not expand on what he was paranoid about, which is fine not necessirily our business, point being if you could isolate exactly what that may help the doctors and your husband narrow down what may be needed to help him.  Good luck

arndog64 said:

Ever since he started

Ever since he started working, he went for a drug test and he takes alot of meds. He said he got weird vibes and left. Of course he went back and passed just fine.

Then he said he was getting weird vibes from his cowrokers, and some of his feeling s did pan out. But, he decided to leave the job and come home.

My husband has NEVER let anyone get the upper hand on him. He was telling me he packed up and was coming home and I said great when do I pick you up. He then questions my feelings, saying he is getting weird vibes from me.. Not the case, I just woke up and I was in my morning daze and I would rather he be home with me anyday.

He just seems really frazzled..

Hi.   I wonder if he is having panic attacks.  The fact that he left work sounds like extreme anxiety.  My mom took pregnisone for many years and she totally changed.  She became mean and paranoid before she died.  I googled her symptoms and found something called "steroid psychosis".  I sent the info to her Dr. and she thought that maybe that was it and took her off the steroids.  You may want to look into this. I asked my Dr. about pain I was having and he put me on pregnisone and I told him my fears and he said that it was unlikely to make me anxious. I was only on the steriod for 2 weeks so I was OK but you might want to ask about this. I am not sure if this is a well known side effect or not.

My mother was on steroids for years and never had any problems.  Remember everyone is different in how they respond to medication and all side effects are to be considered.  As far as his co-workers, there are many people who believe if you are around someone who has or had cancer, you can catch it from them.  Weird as it sounds, it is true.  Just like a pregnant woman thinks being around a person who is handicapped can cause her baby to have problems.  The stress of being back to work and away from where he felt safe during his treatment can be the cause.  Doctor visit is great idea.

Billie67 said:

Hmmm
I'll try to make my little story as short as I can so not to bore you :-)
When I was going thru treatment I had a home nurse that came once a week because I had a PEG. Anyway, she would always go over all my meds in case any of them changed and then she would do her physical assessment and finally ask how I was feeling. While I felt like total hell most of the time, I never felt depressed. I had early on gone thru the whole scared thing but both of my onc's and my ENT assured me that treatment is so successful that I calmed down quite a bit. That doesn't mean I never thought about it again but I was much calmer and never felt too anxious. However each time she visited she would say something to the affect of "do you feel sad, angry, nervous or anything like that?", then she would say "it's not uncommon for cancer patients to be depressed" I would always tell her that in that aspect I felt fine but she would always push it. So on my next weekly visit at chemo the onc came out to me and asked me all the same things and said that my home nurse just wanted to make sure I was ok. I told him I honestly felt ok
but I promised to let him know if I felt any of those symptoms. He then wen






t on to tell me that the nurse thought I was actually turning myself off to any
feelings, in other words I was acting as if everything was normal. He said
some people will do that and then when treatment is over a PTSD type
depression can set in. He wanted me to consider going on something mild so
that when treatment was over it wouldn't be a shock to my system. For a few
weeks I declined to go on anything, I felt like I was taking a whole pharmacy
as it was. I ended up talking to my ENT about it and he said that it has been
known that people will act differently after treatment, paranoia, anxious &
depressed so sometimes it's better to get a head start on it before it
happens. Finally I agreed to go on a mild dose of zoloft. They said I should
stay on it for 8 months and then we can slowly wean off of it if I'm feeling
fine. So now I'm about 4 months on it, 4 months to go! I still continue to feel
fine mentally but I have to wonder if that would be the case had I not started
the meds.





Perhaps your husband is going thru some PTSD depression too?
Just a thought.