Feeling a failure
Does anyone know if there is a phone consult available for breast cancer mental health? I had two lumpectomies and axillary clearance due to cancer in one node in early 2019. Then rads. Then hormon...
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We are made to feel like failures if we don’t continue on with treatment, but realistically we’re not. Not even close.
I understand your feelings because I’m also not happy on my meds (Anastrozole and Zoladex) and after almost 3 years on them I want to stop them. I think that it will be a good decision as I’ll be much happier and stronger generally due to the side effects which will go. I will need to, and am currently working on that more than ever, make radical changes in my lifestyle to eliminate the root cause of getting the cancer in the first place, and then I will not be worried about it returning. In these situations, I believe eliminating the root cause is more important than a band aid fix such as these meds. This is my thinking, others are free to disagree. But we’re definitely not failures. Considering what we go through, we’re more like superheroes.