Hi,
It’s been a while since I have been on here. Sorry for being so absent when you have all been so busy.
My treatment ended mid February, one week after my 61st birthday. Strangely enough I didn’t do anything to celebrate my big day. My day out was to the radiology department at The Velindre Cancer Centre, an extremely painful poo and an early night with fatigue. Such fun!
Being a man, as opposed to a women who is giving birth without pain relief, I wanted to cry every time I gave birth on the toilet. i was not proud and took everything that was offered to me, codeine, morphine, four different types of creams and gels.
I would love to know why, when I was in so much pain I seemed to want to go to the toilet so much more often than when I was not in pain. The universe has a weird sense of humour.
My pain has now pretty much gone, just some very minor residual pain remaining.
The fatigue has also pretty much gone, it just occasionally rears it’s ugly head.
I still have painful finger tips and weakness in my hands. I wake up every morning with joint and muscle pain and I often cannot recall words I want to use during conversations.
I am now waiting on my MRI in two months time.
In terms of empathy. I now understand why dogs occasionally scoot on the carpet. I haven’t been caught doing this, yet, but I wouldn’t discount it 
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Hi Poppydays2 ,
Well done for getting to this stage in your treatment. The treatment can be gruelling but my experience is that once you start to heal you get better quite quickly. Not that it feels like that at the time.
You will get there soon enough and then this will be another life experience story to tell at cocktail parties. 
Hi LCraig ,
This post made me chuckle In all seriousness though you’re doing great by the sounds of things! I’m almost 7 years post treatment & not sure how much of my ongoing joint/muscle pain is a consequence of the treatment or just down to age & some osteoarthritis, I can’t remember this pain pre-diagnosis although that feels like a lifetime ago now! Hopefully the pain & weakness in your hands will improve over time along with the brain fog, being a woman of a certain age I’ve learned to live with the brain fog, it kind of rolled on from my first pregnancy at 24 to my second 13 years later then onto menopause it’s now a way of life.
Thanks so much for the update, posts like this really do help those that are facing the start or those in the midst of their treatment.
Nicola
P.S., I would try & refrain from scooting on the carpet, I can imagine it’ll burn!!
