Very tired & constantly fatigued
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Hi @Ange6741,
So sorry you find yourself here. It is such a overwhelming process isn't it especially after you helped in her journey with breast cancer. That's tough. I don't think any of us ever think we would get breast cancer. I never thought I would get it either but here I am.
You have been through alot and still have a bit more to get through yet to finish your treatment. You will get there in times. It is exhausting to go through all this. Just processing it emotionally takes it out of you and then chemo, surgery and radium also have fatigue as a consequence of the treatment.
Give yourself time. It takes months to get over this. I finished my treatment about this tine last year. I had 2 surgeries, chemo and radium and now tamoxifen. I suffered fatigue badly but what helped amazingly was walking. Some how it just seems to work. I still get fatigue from tamoxifen but I still walk daily.
I had to adjust my expectations of myself and I had to allow myself to have rests, not do everything for everyone, say no, put myself first before I helped others and all of that seems to have made a better life for me now.
I wish you all the best.
So sorry you find yourself here. It is such a overwhelming process isn't it especially after you helped in her journey with breast cancer. That's tough. I don't think any of us ever think we would get breast cancer. I never thought I would get it either but here I am.
You have been through alot and still have a bit more to get through yet to finish your treatment. You will get there in times. It is exhausting to go through all this. Just processing it emotionally takes it out of you and then chemo, surgery and radium also have fatigue as a consequence of the treatment.
Give yourself time. It takes months to get over this. I finished my treatment about this tine last year. I had 2 surgeries, chemo and radium and now tamoxifen. I suffered fatigue badly but what helped amazingly was walking. Some how it just seems to work. I still get fatigue from tamoxifen but I still walk daily.
I had to adjust my expectations of myself and I had to allow myself to have rests, not do everything for everyone, say no, put myself first before I helped others and all of that seems to have made a better life for me now.
I wish you all the best.