My husband has stage 4 lung cancer EGFR positive. Currently on 160mg Osimertinib. His fatigue is horrendous!!! Sleeps all of the time, cannot really function tbh. Anybody got any advice, tips for me pls
Hi, sorry to hear about your husband diagnosis, subsequent treatment and fatigue. I don't have experience in his treatment, my treatment was just radiotherapy on my lung cancer. I hope somebody who has experience of this fatigue on the same treatment will reply with some advice.
I have just read up on the side effects of Osimertinib, but they don't seem to mention fatigue. I would ring your cancer nurse specialist and mention about the extreme fatigue, they will be able to help you with advice, and if they feel your husband needs to be seen by the consultant they can arrange that for you.
hi I’m so sorry to hear your absolutely awful time you’re having must be so stressful and traumatic for you and your husband. We had a similar issue with capacitabane chemotherapy tablets for my husband‘s oesophageal cancer and the Oncologist halved the medication to stop the fatigue And said it would not affect the success of the treatmentperhaps you can talk to the Oncologist and see what would be the best way forward for treatment that would assist is recovery. I sincerely hope and to half the fatigue he’s suffering. I sent you my love
