Fatigue

Hi @susie70 sorry to hear you are struggling with fatigue. Strange as it sounds, my oncologist told me that regular walking would help me feel much less fatigued. Maybe this is something to consider, though I accept it sounds counterintuitive. Best wishes 

@Susie70 I agree with the exercise advice, I've been told this also. I haven't followed said advice too well, but years ago, before cancer I found it really helped with chronic exhaustion and pain from a lifetime of back injuries, so I believe it may well be a useful tactic.

Thank you for the advice.  I will definately try the excercise.  I have a treadmill at home a good one and will try to use that walking at incline as well as outside walking a beautiful memorial gardens near which is also relaxing.

Definitely agree with exercise, however small, it will help you with chemo. Cardio a couple of times at least during a cycle really helps. Also watching your diet as you are able can help too as tiredness worse if not eating enough or not eating enough protein. If you can eat a bit of protein at every meal and snack on things with a high protein content - eg nuts, houmous etc and make some little protein balls for a quick healthy bite. I wish I'd known about the protein thing beofre chemo started. Good luck with your chemo too. x

• Thank you for your kind reply clw24 and sorry to hear about your chronic back pain and cancer.   I will definately give the exercise a go as above, fingers crossed I am able to do at least do this.   Tomorrow is my first chemotherapy and I have just had the port implanted under GA yesterday.

Thank you zephyr for your kind reply. I really welcome the advice on diet and I am quite a protein fan. I will try the cardio on my home treadmill as I am not ready to return to my gym spin classes yet as I am only about to start my first chemo tomorrow.  Also feeling sore with port implanted yesterday under GA.  I returned back to once a morning coffee and I found this helped me too although I am not sure if you should be having coffee once chemo starts.

Thats what I did too - found interval training on the home treadmill the best thing - resting at about 6.5km/h for a couple of mins and then running at 80-90 percent of my fastest speed at the time for a minute or so, and repeat (obviously after warm up and then warm down at the end). Some days I really felt too tired to attempt it, yet felt so much better when I had. Am still running now, taking care of resistance training and still on the year long stretches after radiotherapy - it gets tight if I forget even for a day, so keeping up with the new routine. I just did what I could during chemo, accepted I would lose fitness during chemo, but that exercising would mean that I could control to an extent how much was lost. My recovery starting point after chemo was considerably better for the exercise, and I wonder if the same is true for my experience of chemo.