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Newly diagnosed-night waking
yet again I’m awake at 3am, so thought it was time to check out the online forum. I was diagnosed with early breast cancer just before Christmas (the day before we were meant to take the kids to euro...
Not sure if this helps or applies to you Nuala, or anyone else. But I found while having chemo treatment, I couldn't sleep and was super (I mean really super) hungry all the time and the only thing I felt satisfied with was basically junk food, which I rarely ate prior to diagnoses. When I mentioned this to my chemo nurse and oncologist they both said it was probably the steroids given prior to chemo. Thus I had my steroids reduced to half, and then the following week reduced again. Wow, this certainly made a huge difference for me for both sleep and hunger.