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Keytruda & Fatigue: What helps decrease fatigue?

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Welcome to Mayo Connect @terrierlover, thanks for sharing your story, and for taking part in a clinical trial, especially for a treatment that has help so many. I'm glad that you were able to advocate for yourself and ultimately reduce the fatigue, it's fascinating to think about the complexity of our biological systems. Are the doctors able to test for low dopamine levels, or did you just need to try the Sinemet and reap the results?

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I'm not aware of any tests for Dopamine levels, but if they exist, nobody suggested testing. My PCP was the one who wrote me the prescription. He and I are neighbors and I see him and his family out while walking our dogs, so we're "connected" I guess you could say. Neither my Oncologist nor my Endocrinologist ever came up with any thoughts whatsoever about the origins of my fatigue and would just continually check my THS levels and they were ALWAYS perfect, the same every time. Apparently, they're not reading the literature because they've never heard about any of these other AE's. In fact, they didn't even know about Keytruda until I told them about it. Hard to believe really. I'm a Kaiser patient in N. CA, so that might tell you something.