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Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: May 29 10:06pm | Replies (54)
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I am chronically fatigued to the point where I cannot function. My vision has been affected, I get wiped out from even a gentle yoga class; my muscles and bones hurt and I’m even more exhausted. I often feel out of breath. I am now very depressed because I was a health and fitness trainer and I can’t do the things I enjoy! Are there any drugs to help with my energy level? This is not living!
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@teralinda1 Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! I am quite sure you will find many of us nodding our collective heads in agreement and sympathy with your post.
The first thing I would suggest is to check with your primary care doctor, and get some baseline tests done, making sure there is nothing else going on. Then check with your hematologist oncologist to see what they might recommend. Many of us find we need to reconfigure our lives and understand our energy levels might be affected. Checking to see what medications you are on, and possible side effects, may give you some insight also.
Moderate exercise, healthy eating and stress reduction can go a long way to helping us on a day-to-day basis when we are dealing with MGUS. If we have been a very active person, it is disheartening to get older/not feeling as energetic. Sometimes talk therapy is in order. I wish I could do half of what I did 5 years ago!
Ginger