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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I was told that the percentage they’re helping is 4, which quite frankly isn’t enough to guarantee that’s why those women stayed alive. In my reasoning, those women probably did other things that helped them stop recurrence, but it looks like it was because of the AI.
We’ve been programmed to listen and obey to experts etc, which is why we feel we have failed when we can’t follow through. In actual fact, this should not happen as I don’t believe there’s even enough studies done to prove the efficacy of so many meds. And we should not be made to feel like others (this includes doctors) are the authority over us. No one knows you better than you do. Your body is not failing you, it’s actually trying to tell you that you don’t need those meds, that it’s healthier without them. Symptoms are a sign of distress that what we’re doing is hurting our body, and that’s never a good thing.
Don’t be hard on yourself for feeling like this. You’re most definitely not the only one, because as I said we all get programmed. Give yourself time to get used to being off them, and I’m sure you’ll adapt soon enough and stop feeling guilty 💟.