Hi All, I am on Provera 400 since last 6 months. Overall, I easily feel tired and fatigued. I have gained weight due to the medicine and I want to do regular exercise like walking or cycling but I feel tired and out of energy to do it. Please can someone suggest me ways to cope with this and also some ways to manage weight. I am already trying to control diet.
Hi Letap
Am sorry to hear that you are dealing with fatigue. I know that it can be debilitating.
I found that regular walking helped- shorter distances and often and that although at times I did feel like I was too tired to do it- when I did, I felt better for it. In the longer term I found I had less fatigue.
Pacing myself in the early days with fatigue was important and finding the right balance between resting and moving takes time.
Looking at diet is a good plan to make sure you are getting the right nourishment.
It may be an idea to check with your doctor about the provera to review how it is affecting you and to ask for bloods to be checked- just incase there is another medical reason for the fatigue. At one stage I had low haemoglobin and needed a blood transfusion and this helped with the fatigue.
I found sometimes fatigue could be physical and sometimes social/emotional. If I was meeting friends one day I found it could take a lot out of me so would have a quieter day the next day.
This link has some more info that may help.
Tiredness (fatigue) and cancer | Macmillan Cancer Support
Hope this helps a bit but do give the Support Line a call if you feel it would help to talk to someone about it.
Jane
Hi Letap
Have you also had your vitamin levels checked by a simple GP requestable blood test. I found that with health and medicine challenges mine went off badly and needed vit D and vit B12 each which NHS has predefined deficiency recovery programmes for. Addressing each improved my fatigue issues greatly.
