Hi All
Am back from my little break in Somerset and it was lovely (the weather was flippin cold)
Just wondered if anyone felt this awful tiredness that seems to have crept upon me?
I seem to have had all my energy zapped away!! I was fine whilst having RAD’s which finished last Wednesday! !
Is this that funny word called fatigue
Kay x
Oh yes - that funny word fatigue … it’s that funny thing that sneaks up behind you and whacks you like there is no tomorrow! Been there, done that, didn’t like it. I had occassions where I actually felt a wave going through my body from my head down to my feet, not a nice feeling.
I think we all get a bit blase when we finish treatment and think that as we are not going to the hospital every day it’s all over and we just go back to what we were before… obviously we just block out that little talk that they give us at our last rads session (or thereabouts) where we are informed that the rads will continue to work on our body for 2-3 weeks afterwards and we will be at least a couple of months before we are back to normal. My rads finished at the end of April and I am improving a bit - still get tired and have to pace myself, I’m no longer having to go for a nap after work, but I do have to be sensible with regards to bedtime … I had a stay up late night last week and pushed it to 10pm!
As the saying goes - listen to your body and rest when it tells you to. We forget that we have had some nasty stuff done and that it has taken it’s toll.
I am 18 mths down line from diag after mast, chemo, rads, arimidex and only now starting to feel my brain is functioning nearer to normal! Fatique is odd. Some days I’m bouncing. others I am zonked. The only link I have found it alcohol. This def adds to fatigue and general lathergy ( I’m not giving it up though!)
Irene
I finished rads two weeks ago and feel on some days like I have been drugged. I am OK first thing, manage to do everything OK but come the afternoon, I can hardly move. If I go to bed, I sleep for about 2 hours and then feel really groggy for the rest of the day. I wish I could just power nap for a few minutes, but can’t. Alcohol is certainly not helpful as I have found my tolerance to it since rads is really low and I have the hangovers from hell even after a couple of glasses of wine - I feel a right lightweight now!
Hi All
Just butting in on this thread to mention the ‘Cancerbackup’ information about fatigue. There is a specific section related to coping with fatigue, which you may find useful, this can be found by using the following link:
cancerbackup.org.uk/Resourcessupport/Symptomssideeffects/Fatigue
Best wishes
Lucy