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How long do side effects last? - 1 1/2 year survivor
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 16, 2022 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
Welcome to Connect @survivor1. I revised the title of your message to be more specific to your question. It is a good question and one that many people who have had cancer treatments ask, and that professionals are paying more attention to. In fact, just last year the American Cancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology published a Breast Cancer Survivorship Care Guideline to provide recommendations to assist primary care and other clinicians in the care of female adult survivors of breast cancer. Here's the full study http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/early/2015/12/07/JCO.2015.64.3809.full and a lay person's summary https://medivizor.com/blog/2015/12/18/side-effects-of-breast-cancer-treatment-infographic/
@grandma41 @cautiousoptimism @susanao1 @yyyy @scwgal @rena42 @johnwburns @lacey @donnelson @teege1 @lynnkay1956 do you have any experience or insight about long lasting side effects to share with Survivor1?
Survivor1 - by the types of side effects you list, I bet it is a challenge to be physically active. Are you able to incorporate physical activity into your day?
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Having a young family, and running them to different events, will keep you flexible and able to do a lot more than if you sat around on the couch all day. You will train your body to move again like it used to, it takes time, don't forget to breath and rest in between. I do drink the Ensure ( extra protein ) and that seems to help a lot. I don't think it will ever be like it used to be, but we were all a lot younger than also. Good luck, God Bless Lacey
Thanks, Colleen, I will try to share my experiences with everyone, I just don't want to make them feel that they will have the same effect as I do, we are all different that way. Had my blood tested this week again, it came out very good, still very tired, really need to push myself off the couch and walk, a little each day, keeps the doctor away??? Lacey
Lacey I know my body will never be the same like it was before cancer. I am trying to find my "new normal". It is a painful journey but I am a fighter and I will keep fighting not only for myself but for my children and to be an example to other breast cancer survivors.
God bless you too 🙂
Hello, I do have a system that works for me, the day before, I think of what I have to do the following day and that is all I do, I try not to crowd too much into one day, if I have an appointment, I plan some shopping around that appt. , but than I want to get home and rest and I have 3 doggies who depend on me. it works??
I'm in chemo again after 1 yr had surgery for recurrence
Very tired after each treatment
Hanging in best as possible for husband and kids and grandkids
Hang in there girl. Use your family to help keep you motivated to keep going. Listen to your body. I pray for all of us.
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Yes I am able most days, I also have two teenage boys that I must drive everywhere so I do not have time to be down. Unfortunately I will have a day that I am running kids and then the next day I am exhausted and am not able to do much. When I am not running kids I do go to the gym after drinking an energy drink to get motivated.