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Post radiation after breast cancer

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I’m 2 years after treatment. Did have chemo and radiation so difficult to know what caused what. I know the chemo caused a lot of fatigue coupled with the radiation to follow. I felt I was doing ell at about the 1 year mark but was then changed from Anastrazole to exemestane and while the joint nd muscle pain is gone, the fatigue is massive. I’m one of those that never “naps’ even as a child. Now, if I don’t lay down (not even sleep, just rest), late afternoon, I’m practically non functional by about 7pm. This is a body fatigue, not sleepy. While it could easily be. Cumulative effect, I do blame a lot on the exemestane.

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Hi I did not have to have chemo but I did have 20 rounds of radiation and I relate to the body fatigue it's brutal I am not on an AI but I still get fatigue if I do too much in a day I just have a day where I have to stay home and rest and I'm usually done by 7:00 every night also I just think treatment really affects energy. I talked to a lady that has been 40 years out from her treatment and still she said her energy never came back to what it was.