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Coping with fatigue: What are your coping tips?
Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Sep 11 9:32pm | Replies (31)Comment receiving replies
I think this side effect needs to get more attention. I would talk to my oncologist and GP about it and neither of them said it was a really common side effect. I kept thinking, “What’s wrong with me?” and feeling really discouraged.
It wasn’t until I joined a women’s cancer group and discovered that many of them were dealing with this too, that I could start being more accepting and kinder to myself. And just that helps.
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My cancer nurse and oncologist both warned me about fatigue before my treatments started and to get projects out of the way! Also looking on hospital cancer advice pages (as well as being part of group chats on the Belong cancer app) fatigue is a common side effect of cancer treatments, in both men and women.
You are absolutely right this fatigue side effect should be given more emphasis and advance notice.
(Like neuropathy should. I was lucky my treatments didn’t give me neuropathy but those side effects can in some people be even tougher to handle and in some cases can be permanent . Fatigue at least does eventually go away, once treatment stops).