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Katereach
Hello,
I hope you can help. I am trying to find out what is wrong with me. A few years ago (aged 34) I was diagnosed with breast cancer. This obviously came as a big shock but for some reason as strange as it sounds i didn't feel I was particularly traumatised about it. I had more of a "what will be, will be" kind of attitude about it and I just got on with things. I finished treatment (I am now clear of cancer) and went back to work and I felt fine. Then suddenly 20 months later I woke up one day with the strongest fatigue ever. Up until this point I was very happy and would say I didn't think too much about the breast cancer anymore. This fatigue continued and it was so severe that I lost my job. At this point my hair started falling out, I had constant heart palpitations, dizziness and ringing in my ears. I thought these were all symptoms of my "illness" but now I've just realised that you can get these from stress!
I've been like this for 2 years now and I'm pretty much bedbound/housebound most of the time. Had endless scans and blood tests. Everything was clear. I've also been sent to the chronic fatigue syndrome clinic/ME clinic who said they wouldn't diagnose me with this as I didn't really "fit".
So I'm wondering if this sounds like PTSD? Can it leave you so chronically tired that you are mainly housebound/bedbound?
Can you get it when you've had a traumatic event (in my case cancer) but you didn't feel that traumatised about it at the time?
Appreciate any replies. Thank you!
I hope you can help. I am trying to find out what is wrong with me. A few years ago (aged 34) I was diagnosed with breast cancer. This obviously came as a big shock but for some reason as strange as it sounds i didn't feel I was particularly traumatised about it. I had more of a "what will be, will be" kind of attitude about it and I just got on with things. I finished treatment (I am now clear of cancer) and went back to work and I felt fine. Then suddenly 20 months later I woke up one day with the strongest fatigue ever. Up until this point I was very happy and would say I didn't think too much about the breast cancer anymore. This fatigue continued and it was so severe that I lost my job. At this point my hair started falling out, I had constant heart palpitations, dizziness and ringing in my ears. I thought these were all symptoms of my "illness" but now I've just realised that you can get these from stress!
I've been like this for 2 years now and I'm pretty much bedbound/housebound most of the time. Had endless scans and blood tests. Everything was clear. I've also been sent to the chronic fatigue syndrome clinic/ME clinic who said they wouldn't diagnose me with this as I didn't really "fit".
So I'm wondering if this sounds like PTSD? Can it leave you so chronically tired that you are mainly housebound/bedbound?
Can you get it when you've had a traumatic event (in my case cancer) but you didn't feel that traumatised about it at the time?
Appreciate any replies. Thank you!