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Members shared their experiences with cancer-related fatigue and offered practical strategies to help manage the exhausting side effect that... Read more
Get some exercise, drink water, pray, have a little pot to help relax. Stay busy.
Teresa,
We all suffer from the fatigue that comes with any of the treatments for cancer. I had 7 weeks of radiotherapy, along with 7 cycles of carboplatin in 2020, and noticed the fatigue soon after starting treatment. It continued right up to the chemotherapy this past fall. So now it's a little worse.
I tried vitamin B-12 supplements and had my B-12 and thyroid levels checked, but they came back normal (actually, my B-12 level was way high with the supplement). Other things to check are iron and magnesium levels. All of mine are good. Sadly, I haven't found anything to stop the chronic fatigue.
If you come upon something that works, please post it so the rest of us can get some relief.
Stay positive!
And God Bless!
Tony
Hi Teresa
Spring time is here after along grey winter so that will help with fatigue by getting out more in the fresh warm air.
I had both chemotherapy and immunotherapy.While in chemotherapy I did have fatigue but nothing like immunotherapy.Once on immunotherapy my thyroid numbers tanked and that only makes the fatigue worse.
They have adjusted my medication the only problem with thyroid medication is that it takes three to four weeks to show if it is making a difference or not.I will be tested again tomorrow along with my regular blood work and see how my thyroid is doing.
If you have not had a blood test for your thyroid I suggest having one done during treatment to rule out the thyroid on adding to fatigue.
Good luck
Gary
Hi Bonnie
Will have to give the beets a try.God knows I don’t need the prunes LOL
I was very fatigued after treatment. I would lay awake at night making these great plans for the next day. In the morning my body would say not today! Then suddenly I would have a day with energy (or a few hours) but I grabbed hold and accomplished things. Those days started to increase in frequency until I almost felt like my old self. Treatment takes a toll on us and time returns us almost to the pretreatment self.