Getting past treatment

Thanks so much everyone for your advice. Its so difficult when you just want to be normal again. I am getting my body now and have a rest when i need to. 

I admire those who go back to work so soon! 

I am exercising with yoga, gardening and walking. We recently put in a pool with minerals which will help! It was so hot up here in Mackay last year, doing chemo was a difficult thing to do for sure. 

I felt better after chemo than after radiotherapy,  that has been the one that's left me so tired. 

Cheers Janet

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I'm nearly six months after treatment and have many issues still going on and pain, arthritis type stuff. Up and down it is, I know how you feel. Some people have said give yourself a year roughly it's an ongoing thing but different for all. I have osteo treatments and reiki, so a fair amount of listening to medication and also on the research project "womans wellness after Cancer treatment programme". So it's not like I'm doing nothing. I don't know somedays if it's still effects, menopause symptoms or pain from prexoisting conditions which have been exasperated due to all the bod has been thru, but I remain optimistic. I feel crappy for days after any osteo or reiki treatment but I keep going, I think it's slowly making a difference. hang in, you have my empathy. I do have up times, I get excited and do too much I think lol. Big hugs I think it helps to be a part of a support group as well I finally joined one recently. 

Hi Paula,

what is the encore program?

Nada

Hi Janet,

i remeber that feeling well. Everyone wanted me to be "back to normal" probably myself included. I felt like crap!!! Excuse the expression.  It took me quite a while to get back into things. One thing I did do was walk every day no matter how bad I felt. Some days it was just around the block. I called it walking for my soul. Just being outside and moving was good for me. It is one of the changes I have made to be healthier and so I have continued to walk most days four years on. I too did the encore program. Not only is it a great course that is gentle and also informative, but it's a great way to meet others who "get you" and what you have been through. I am still friends with all my encore buddies. We meet regularly for a catch up. 

Be kind to yourself. You will get there. 

Paula xxxx

Hi Janet,

My radiation finished in Feb 2014 and I suffered from fatigue for about a year after.  I still have ongoing pain in my right breast which I manage with pain medication and stay away from overuse on that side.  Doctors have told me that it will probably be another year that I will have the pain.  The fatigue has since left me, although I find if I party too hard (lol!) it comes back for a short time.  I learnt to listen to the signs of my body and rest.  I had to go back to work full time and when I came home from work each night I could not do too much else except sleep, so my husband stepped in and cooked meals.  For a long time, I could not cook a meal.  I was fortunate that I had a cleaning lady come in before my treatments as I could not do any of that afterward.  My body is slowly returning to the way it was.  I can now walk for a lot farther than I could before and do a few more things around the house.  Take things slowly, exercise a little when you can.  Your body needs to recover and you need to let it.

Cheers - Irene

Good morning I finished active treatment in May. I had a long hard year with treatment chemo, herceptin and multiple surgeries. I workd on and off and back at work full time now, I struggle with the fatigue it is slowly getting better, everyone tells me it takes time and I'm in a hurry to get back to some sort of normal.It is hard to be patient hang in there.

I have heard some breeze back to work as we are all different.  I guess after all the treatment we have there is bound to be some recovery time. Congrats being youlast!

Hi Jane,

I guess we don't know what to expect and being such an active girl its difficult to be patient,  nice to know how others are feeling!

Janet xx

This sounds really scary Janet.

I hope you feel better soon.

I need to keep working and was hoping that what I'm experiencing now is the worst (I.e. Really bad chemo and steroids side effects). My last chemo is next week...

has anyone experienced no fatigue after it all finishes?