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Post radiation: How to be more patient with my recovery?

Posted by sue417 @sue417, Nov 5 1:50pm

Hi
I am going into my 6th month.Post radiation and my fatigue is a lot worse again. If I try to exercise I completely am wiped out the next day. am I being unrealistic by thinking I can do a twenty five minute walk on a treadmill? I do 2 upper body machines.That's it..
my doctor now is putting me on a effexor Because I am so exhausted depressed and fatigued😩. I have lost 25lbs since this process started. I am making myself eat. I don't have an appetite. I'm actually feeling afraid I wish someone could tell me that I just need to be more patient and stop trying to be back to "normal"

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myoga | @myoga | Dec 6 10:30pm
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@gaylepc

Did Letrozole raise your blood pressure? I have had high BP for years and it has been controlled well on 3 meds until my cancer recurrance. Lately it has been running much higher and I am trying to foigre out if it is a side effect of the Letrozole, or just acute anxiety (which I have had off and on in my life) over dealing with cancer.

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I was on AI for 2 years and now I'm on BP medication. I was able to control my BP through exercise until now. I think the AIs (anastrozole and exemestance) did me in! But I could be wrong?

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kpederso | @kpederso | Dec 7 8:25am
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@myoga

I was on AI for 2 years and now I'm on BP medication. I was able to control my BP through exercise until now. I think the AIs (anastrozole and exemestance) did me in! But I could be wrong?

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I think you’re right. I tried all three AI’s & I had terrible leg & foot cramping. My knees hurt & finally they noticed I had torn a torn meniscus. This happened months after i stopped all AI’s. I believe all was caused by the drugs. I did nothing to hurt my knees?? I feel very positive that these drug side effects last, for a long time, I don’t know how long yet, a year for sure for me.

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myoga | @myoga | Dec 7 2:31pm

@kpederso I realized my post gives an impression that I’m no longer on AI. I’m still taking exemestane. Now I start having rashes, occasional headache and some symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. I believe there are more side effects than those pharmaceutical companies claim and those side effects can manifest themselves months later as in your case. The most annoying thing is that when you talk to oncologists they seem to attribute the problems to something else, not AIs. Then again, we have to take it with the hope to keep cancer from recurring. Why would those companies want to spend resources to improve the drugs so that patients suffer less?

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