Anyone Feel Old After Treatment?

Good to hear from you. I was sure I would never be my old self. I couldn't remember things I had completed at work during the treatment. When I would drop something on the floor it was all I could do to pick it up. I feel into a depression that required medication to get out of and I was then 43. I was sure my life had changed forever. I finished all treatments (lumpectomy, chemo, radiation) last July. So ... one year later ... I'm working on a very big project at work and remember things all over the place. I built retaining walls and made a vegetable and flower garden, painted our shed, helped put new tiles on the kitchen floor ... played golf ... my point is ... I'm back!!! I honestly didn't think I'd ever feel energy again ... I do and continue to have more strength and energy. Life is good!!! Hang in there ... I did have to take anti-depressants ... I think it took me 8 months to really feel energy and excitement about things. So ... another great big HANG IN THERE!!!! YOU CAN DO IT !!!! LIFE IS GOOD !!!! You're in my thoughts, Jamie

HANG IN THERE yes you do need that. It isn't easy growing old let alone having to face age with new concerns or more. I just found trying to get over the cancer thing has been a big ordeal and not many of us out there. I am so glad that most women are able to bounce back quite well and pick up their lives pretty much where they left them. There are also those who have changed drimatically but then again they better have or they will find themselves back here again another day. I on the other hand have found this very hard work and believe you me probably wouldn't have gotten better if I didn't realize it started and ended with me. Funny enough my son was the one who reminded me of that when he told me he realized he could blame everything on his father for not being their and being the father he needed but in the end it was just him standing in the messes he made. He realized that he had been hard on me but most of all he had been hard on himself making things much more complicated than they had to be. Funny I am finally hearing the words I need to hear from my son with whom I have been trying to drill things in his head with the constand nag. Now he is the one who has to remind me just how hard it is and how much work but it can be done because he has done so much more than I could of ever imagines and I am so grateful I am here to hear it.
Please do me a favour quit looking at what you once were comparing yourself to other especially those 20 or 30 years younger than you. The best thing I quit doing was saying what I use to be able to do cause I can do a whole pile more just differently. That has helped me feel so much better because how I talk to myself really is where it is at. I can be awful mean calling myself useless and a hasbeen. I can be in better shape and have a better body even with no breasts, even if I don't feel good all the time. At least I am now know what it is like to feel good again.
Be good to yourself always,
I am sorry I have never gone on like this.
Love to all.

Hi dear sister. I hope you are on a SERIOUS vitamin regimen. Especially a good B Complex, also E, C, a multiple, flaxseed, grapeseed, CO-Enzyme 10, selenium, folic acid, green tea capsules, fish oil. Just go to Costco and load up, you will feel like a new person in no time. Hugs, Shirlann