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Hello all. After recovering from bowel cancer at 39 , I was diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago and also needed a spinal operation.
Ive turned into an anxious human being . I was a confidant man . Now at 52 , Im quite anxious all the time and can only work part time.
Id really appreciate some advice or similar experiences
Ron
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Hello ron, I can't say i've been through exactly what you have, but as a long time sufferer of anxiety, when I had a breast cancer scare about ten years ago my anxiety went into overdrive for a while. It's perfectly ok to feel the way you do, you have been through a lot of stress and trauma over a long period of time. I sense that a large part of your anxiety is grief at your loss of confidence and that you can now only work part time. Perhaps you are feeling mentally weak and inferior? I know that these are only words, and may come across as trite, but I think you are the exact opposite: you are a survivor of two very serious cancers and that takes a lot of strength and courage.
Can you feel where the loss of confidence is coming from? Are you living in fear of another health scare?
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HI Ron
I had bowel cancer at 47 I am now 53 and have begun to suffer from anxiety self diagnosing myself with any terminal disease my favourite being pancreatic cancer .....cant survive that one aye so might as well become obsessed with it ......Just a little more about me I am a registered nurse currently working 8 day fortnight so I think I am sane LOL anyway I am menopausal so that could be part of the problem but I am anxious most of the time and can have full on anxiety/panic attacks usually at night i will wake from sound sleep only to then start having palpitations and hot flushes combined with nausea and epigastric pain that also goes to my back it was so bad last night that I took myself into hospital (where I work) just to check that i wasnt having a heart attack .....I have just started taking an SSRI but it will take a week or 2 to work meanwhile I am really nervous about going to bed incase I wake up in a panic .......not sure if I am right but think once we have had cancer we always have the fear ...anyway just to let you know you are not alone xx
