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Post-treatment Tired and can't afford to be
Hi there, I am a 60 year old who has had a pretty-easy, early-invasive BC journey: Small, ER+, PR+, HER-; Lumpectomy with clear margins; 2 lymph nodes taken but uninvolved; Axillar seroma drained; 1...
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LP020406 You've achieved a lot in a short space of time! :) No wonder you're exhausted!
But in all seriousness.. we all recover in different ways.
I was still fatigued 6 weeks after radiation and medical people were telling me my tiredness could be due to the radiation, that I was still healing. I would get through the work day but then I would crash.
Have you had any blood tests after radiation? I had a blood test and found my iron storage had completely and utterly tanked. There's various bits of research suggesting that can happen with radiation. 6 months after radiation my iron storage was still struggling so I'm now taking iron every day (rather than every second) hoping that when I get it checked again next month it will be better.
8 months after radiation I'm still sleeping at least an hour more than I did before radiation though that might now be due to the medication.
I'm still waiting for "normal" to return but overall I have much more energy than I did in the first few months after radiation.
I've got quite good at prioritising - some things don't need to be done at all and others can definitely wait :)