Fatigue

Hey Tracey

Nice to hear from you. Hope you are home and on your way to recovering from the yukky side effects you obviously had to deal with you poor luv. Chemo is bad enough without all the crappy side effects and then visits to hospital to boot!!!!

Unfortunately it is pretty hard to fight fatigue. It is a major side effect for chemo and for me I found it one of the hardest to deal with because it is quite debilitating. I am so sorry you are suffering from this. I finished my last radiotherapy in September and I am still dealing with fatigue. It is nowhere near as bad now as previously thank god but it does still hit me some days.

My husband also notices how I can be doing something and then out of the blue I say I have to go lay down, he comes in to check on me and I am sleeping like a baby. Once I have had my nanna nap then I am okay again. Now I get where it hits me and I just need to have a lil reviver, not always a sleep sometimes just a lil rest on the couch and then I am good to go again.

I was working 3 jobs and running the house and mowing lawns etc. when I was diagnosed so I found it very very hard to deal with this bloody horrible fatigue. I tried to fight it and I found I got really angry and upset about it in the beginning but now I just think I can't beat it so I just go with it and I have structured my lifestyle around it. Needless to say I not back to my 3 jobs (only 1 of them currently), I have a lawnmowing LADY!! come in and do the lawns, hubby has to pull the weeds etc. So I have had to make changes in my life BUT it does get better week to week so just hang in there kiddo and I will keep fingers crossed you are up and running again ASAP.

I do rely on Berocca most days to give me a boost even if it is only me mentally thinking it is helping :-)

Thinking of you and relating to your dilemma.

Lots of love, Mich xoxo