You have cancer and just had major surgery. Could usually bring very active be possibly causing you to push yourself too much? I’m much older and wasn’t as active so I might have been more patient with my situation. Sorry, I didn’t have your more severe pain issues.

Like you, my only comfortable position was on my back, I’m a side sleeper but I was able to sleep on my back. But I sometimes use sleeping bills because of another medical condition. I can’t remember if I was using them at that time to help? Are you or your doctor totally against using a sleeping pill? I’m sure you know this but sleep is really important to healing and your brain and emotional health. I use Ambien when needed and for me, it’s worked.

I started chemo 4 weeks after my surgery.

Lastly, I want to add that after my last chemo, my oncologist focused too much on my CA125 number. He didn’t use other methods like CT or PET scans to see if I was cancer free. My CA 125 was low for months and months and he declared me cancer free and was going to stop treatment. I insisted on a PET scan first and I wasn’t cancer free at all. My surgeon had to leave a group of tumors because of their location. He though the chemo would get rid of them but unlike most other people, chemo hadn’t been fully effective for me. And for me, the CA 125 wasn’t an accurate measure either. I hope your oncologist is better than mine and after your chemo ends, he/she tracks your cancer status much better than mine did. It’s nice to see a low CA 125 but use other measures as well.