1/2 through radiation, and I'm Knackered,
so here I am on week 3 of 6 of this radiation treatment, and I'm so over it! After my last post on tips and tricks on how to get through and all the updates about my horrible radiation team, like tha...
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Hi @Maree72 - I also hit the wall about half way through RT. I'm also in Brisbane and was public. My RT centre was only a few hundred metres from the car park but up a hill and the last couple of weeks my car may as well have been on top of Mt Everest. My whole body felt like jelly. My centre gave me access to a physio during treatment and she set me resistance band exercises to do. I'd do them, then be unable to do literally anything else that day.
It does get better. My fatigue lasted about 4-6 weeks after I finished but then slowly improved. At the 6 week mark I went back to swimming after most of a year out with surgery, chemo, rads. That was interesting at first- did 500m, felt like I was going to die. Little by little I persisted and got back to my old training distance (2km). I was 12 months post treatment in March and did Laps for Life and managed 40km for the month. So there is hope!
Do you have a partner or friend who can come to treatment with you:? My final week I really couldn't climb Mt Everest to the car so my partner took the week off work and brought the car to me while I parked up on the bus stop bench like lady muck :D I also slacked off on my physio that week. I just couldn't so I didn't force it.
It does get better. My fatigue lasted about 4-6 weeks after I finished but then slowly improved. At the 6 week mark I went back to swimming after most of a year out with surgery, chemo, rads. That was interesting at first- did 500m, felt like I was going to die. Little by little I persisted and got back to my old training distance (2km). I was 12 months post treatment in March and did Laps for Life and managed 40km for the month. So there is hope!
Do you have a partner or friend who can come to treatment with you:? My final week I really couldn't climb Mt Everest to the car so my partner took the week off work and brought the car to me while I parked up on the bus stop bench like lady muck :D I also slacked off on my physio that week. I just couldn't so I didn't force it.