Post-active treatment fatigue

I'm still fatigued 2.5 years on and accepting thus might be as goid as it gets. It's especially when I have been really busy and stressed with poor sleep for a number of days.
Slowing down and relaxation may have made you actually take notice how tired you are. You know it's fine to take a short nap so you have the energy to keep going in the evening..

Thanks @primek.

I also have fatigue 7 years on, but I am 70 years old. So I don’t expect the fatigue to go away. I seem to be always tired, whether or not I have taken a sleeping pill.

 I hope your fatigue improves with time, but you have a big household to look after, emotionally and physically. So it’s not surprising you get tired.

Tiredness may be normal, depending on age, sleep patterns and activity but fatigue usually isn’t. It’s worth addressing the tiredness factors first (sufficient sleep, stress, physical work/activity, accumulation of being tired too often) then seeking help if it’s actually fatigue. Best wishes.

Combination of a lot of things! Lack of sleep that you speak of on other threads is not helping your demeanour.  These links may help you to understand your predicament better and get help. 

https://www.bcna.org.au/health-wellbeing/physical-wellbeing/fatigue/

https://www.cancervic.org.au/living-with-cancer/common-side-effects/fatigue

My hubby gets that kind of fatigue after he uses sleeping pills.  He's a terrible insomniac, always has been.  He'll resort to pills after a week of little sleep. He is lucky if he gets  4 hours a night and can change beds, rooms and to the couch in amongst that.  He calls it his pill hangover that's why he hates taking them.  

2.5 years post my latest chemo, fatigue is still a frustratingly random problem. Thankfully I now have more good days than bad days, but it's really hard to predict what will trigger a crash. I'm on the couch now, but so I bloody should be after hosting my partner's family Xmas in July  last night (char sui duck--nailed it) too much red, random people snoring in the house, a 6km River walk at dawn , two tandem loads of pruning and a massage.

I don't mind if I've done something to deserve it, it's the sneaky 3pm exhaustion that arrives without reason or warning that does my head in. I've been so tired on occassions I've had to pull up on the side of the road on the way home from work because I'm falling asleep after spending the the last two hours sounding like I've got a brain injury because I  can't string a coherent sentence together. The other shitty side effect is sugar and carb cravings that do nothing but pack on the kilos.

Ah well, what can you do? It's confidence destroying because I don't know when it's going to happen, but life won't wait and I can't be held hostage by something I can't control or predict. On one plods.

I heard yesterday at the conference (can't remember which speaker - possibly excercise pyschologist - @Anne65?) that we can expect to suffer side effects of treatment for 2-5 year afterwards.

@Sister Cripes. Well that explains it.

As I said, I haven't had too bad a run with fatigue. And it definitely was that. Today I'm tired (it's been busy) but I'm able to be upright without the overwhelming urge to lie down.

You're right about it being confidence destroying @Zoffiel. I think about getting a job, the sustained level of concentration required, the stress, and then coming home to deal with the family, on my own more often than not, and if I then have one of these fatigue attacks at any point...

@kezmusc I haven't had a reaction like this before. I felt good all day, until I didn't!

@Afraser @iserbrown I'm working on improving the tiredness situation. I'm going to bed earlier and improving my sleep 'hygiene'. I'll keep trying.

I don't push through any more when that incredible tiredness hits me because if I keep on being active I get over tired where everything aches and I can't turn off and blissfully sleep it away. Some days are great and even hubby will notice but others are just a write off.