Trying to get healthy
Hi, It has been a while since my last blog. I have finished Chemo - The Nabpaclitaxel trial was an overwhelming success with a complete pathological response. I hope that this drug becomes available ...
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Hi Dorothy
It is a good feeling when you near the end of all your treatment and you do just want to get healthy again. I found fatigue was the biggest side effect after I finished my chemo and radio and started hormone therapy (I am on tamoxifen). For me I felt it was just the whole combination of everything I had been through that probably caused it.
Things that helped me to get healthy and leave the fatigue behind me were making small changes to my diet (one step at a time rather than anything radical) and exercise. I did a lot of walking and saw a Pink Pilates physio who really helped me to get moving again. I know a lot of ladies also recommend the Encore program. In the end it also just takes time. Someone told me to expect it to take about as long as treatment lasted to feel really good again. For me I think it took a little bit longer than that (7 months treatment but more like 10 or 12 months recovery!). But I definitely felt better the more that I got moving.
Hope that you are soon noticing some improvements to encourage you along. Take care. Deanne xxx