Recovery Emotions
After a good couple of weeks I had a bad day yesterday. On what should have been a good one. One bad thing happened, I cried, and the rest of the day was cactus. I was starting the very first sessi...
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Hi @kmakm,
Aaaawww lovely. Those days stink.
Possible mix of emotions and hormones gone whacky?
Round 1 and 2 of HT I was swinging between getting frustrated and cranky for no reason other than the veges were taking long to cook, or bursting into tears if someone looked at me the wrong way.
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The emotions do seem to sit right at the surface and are easily triggered either way. The slightest thing can tip it over.
I could hear a song I loved driving in the car and burst into tears. Watch a story on the news, tears. It just comes, there's no way to stop it.
Sometimes I would get really anxious prior to the tears, sometimes it would be preceded by a hot flush, sometimes both.
A series of small events like you have described would start the anxiety then bam, crying mess or feral cat.
A lot of the time it would disappear as fast as it came, other times it would just wreck the whole day. It's getting better but the hair trigger is still there at times.
Don't be too hard on yourself, there is still a chemo hangover, a slam dunk into menopause and some pretty wicked drugs floating around in your system manipulating things. It kind of takes you by surprise when you behave totally opposite to the way you used to be.
Biggest hugs lovely lady.
xoxoxoxo
Aaaawww lovely. Those days stink.
Possible mix of emotions and hormones gone whacky?
Round 1 and 2 of HT I was swinging between getting frustrated and cranky for no reason other than the veges were taking long to cook, or bursting into tears if someone looked at me the wrong way.
.
The emotions do seem to sit right at the surface and are easily triggered either way. The slightest thing can tip it over.
I could hear a song I loved driving in the car and burst into tears. Watch a story on the news, tears. It just comes, there's no way to stop it.
Sometimes I would get really anxious prior to the tears, sometimes it would be preceded by a hot flush, sometimes both.
A series of small events like you have described would start the anxiety then bam, crying mess or feral cat.
A lot of the time it would disappear as fast as it came, other times it would just wreck the whole day. It's getting better but the hair trigger is still there at times.
Don't be too hard on yourself, there is still a chemo hangover, a slam dunk into menopause and some pretty wicked drugs floating around in your system manipulating things. It kind of takes you by surprise when you behave totally opposite to the way you used to be.
Biggest hugs lovely lady.
xoxoxoxo