Three months after chemo and radio therapy but I still feel rubbish .

Hi Carol Ann

I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. It must make recovery from your treatment doubly hard.

Have you had a look at the Moving Forward course from Breast Cancer Now?

https://breastcancernow.org/information-support/support-you/moving-forward-online-course

its done on line and had lots of information to aid your recovery

Take one day at a time and hopefully you will start to feel better soon.It will take a while to get back to normal and even then it may be a new normal.

Be kind to yourself 

Take care x

Thanks for the advice I will look into the online course.

Hi Carol ann

So sorry to hear about your husband and as exraygirl says it really will make recovery harder due to grief.  

I think it is a couple of steps forward and one step back as you wonder when your ever going to feel better.  I always kept the longer game in mind while taking it day by day at the same time.  Someone told me it was a year before they started to feel anything like themselves after surgeries, chem and radiotherapy.  This helped when I made myself walk short walks twice daily which got longer over time and maybe nothing on a bad day.  I had to see consultants and dentists for unhealing ulcers, legs that felt they were filled full of concrete, arms and shoulders that felt they were encased in iron due to corded veins, reoccuring thrush and welts covering my head while continuing on herceptin and pertuzumab.  Im kind of deal with everything bit by bit.  The gentle walks which grew stronger, recent taking up of basic yoga again when I felt I could use my arms again,  which is working wonders, the special mouthwashes and toothpastes and coconut oil for the head.   Every month I have felt myself getting stronger and stronger.

3 months is still very early days Carolann and Im sure those days you feel your winning feel great and on a rotten day let it be that just a rotten day.  Plenty of rest I forgot to say is really important , Think I had an afternoon half hour snooze or rest up until recently.  Im one year on now and feeling so so much better.  I have plenty more recovery to make but glad the measured bit of everything each day is working well.  

Keep up the walking Carol ann it sounds like your doing great.  Take care x