Hello! Weight loss and tiredness on Chemotherapy

Former Member over 4 years ago

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Hi All,

I was diagnosed with Colon cancer in December 2020 and had the operation in February this year.

The operation went well and I recovered from it fairly quickly. I am now on 4 sessions of Chemotherapy which end this month. Hurrah! My question is; how do I cope with the awful tiredness? Also I have lost a lot of weight, from 77kg last year when I did 5 and 10k runs to 70.8kg this week. I feel that my lack of interest in food has contributed to my weight loss.

Do you have any suggestions about the tiredness and also about my weight loss?

dom1969 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Mulligatawny soup used to work for me, and watermelon

Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to dom1969

Thanks for the feedback Dom.

Former Member over 4 years ago

Hi Louis5656

I like your self was diagnosed with colon cancer back in December. I am having 12 rounds of chemo done presently. I was 55kgs to start with and have went to low of 52kg. Now 54.5 I got some Cal shakes from dietician and they Def help. Also try to eat food high in calories like cheese.

I was of the chemo for a month after the sixth one as I had to wait for scan to be taken. I found in that month I had put on 3kgs so the chemo Def makes you lose weight.

I also suffer from tiredness as I do not sleep well at night. Think the worrying plays a part in this.

4 more chemo to go and then another scan.

Hope this helps on your journey.