Emotional about DCIS and Potential Fatigue
I really empathise with a comment I read on this forum recently "I don't want to think of this as a big deal, but for some reason it kinda feels like a big deal." I was going to add my comments to tha...
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Welcome @JanieStoke_Trent Rads do make you tired but many women go about their lives pretty much as normal with the treatment. My own experience was last year. I wasn't working during treatment and have I have 3 kids (at the time, one at primary school and two at high school - both miles from where we live and on opposite sides of town). I had 6 months of chemo so was already feeling pretty wrung out by the time rads was due 3 weeks later. My treatment was a higher dose over 3 weeks. I would drive 30kms to drop my youngest off, 10kms to drop the other 2, 7 kms in to the city for my treatment, then 40kms home. Sometimes I would do the shopping on the way home but mostly I tried to keep things to a minimum. I did get tired but it was very manageable. I didn't have any severe burns but did get sore and red a couple of weeks after rads finished.