Coping with fatigue: What are your coping tips?

Last several days I felt less fatigued and today I was able to have my chemo and immunotherapy because my blood platelets recovered impressively to 79 from the dismal 41 it was at last week, triggering last weeks chemo postponement. I also got the injection to elevate platelets to prevent future postponements to my chemo schedule which clearly is working. I’ll be getting a new PET scan in two weeks to determine regression or progression of my cancer. I’m hoping the fatigue following this round of chemo is less severe than it was following the last round. I have much to be grateful for, and optimistic about.

I’ve been on Ibrance since 2021. I’ll be good for a while, overextend myself, then crash in bed for three days, and then back at it. However, the last month the fatigue has been every day and sometimes it feels that there’s nothing left in the pot. I find chilled water helps, eating fruit, hot baths, lots of rest, sometimes crying, coffee, massage and acupuncture. If I have any money left.

@pinkjjj Sometimes I find a nice walk in the early morning, which manages to sustain me for awhile.

@kenc thanks! My husband makes me walk after lunch to metabolise my food but this morning I’ll be walking to the docs!

@pinkjjj

Though my treatment is different, I feel everything you just wrote! Hugs to you! 💕

I take lenalidomine for 3 weeks on, 1 week off. I sleep about 18 hours a day on the week I am off. I feel like a balloon with no air in it. Bone marrow cancer

Chemo last year, Exemestane now. Some days I feel like I am slogging through thick mud. So tired no matter what I do or don't do. I am not sleeping the best which doesn't help. I can't do the caffeine some recommend. So, I just started dropping some activities that are stressful and keeping those that I really enjoy and that help others. Rest when you can!

Rest as much as your body needs, try to walk every day - even if you can only do it a little bit at a time. Prioritize what you need to do and get help from others.

I was really hoping to see some great tip I had never thought of to help me too. I guess it's just something we all have to live with while we are being treated. For some, like myself, it's my new permanent normal because my treatment will continue as long as I do. I have not found anything that helps with this and it's truly debilitating. I can't really do much of anything because of how completely exhausted I feel every single day. I try to move some throughout the day, as I can tolerate because I know being too still is bad, but some days I can hardly even get out of bed. I have trouble sleeping often, as others have mentioned and that doesn't help any but even when I do get sleep, I feel like I didn't sleep at all.
As others have mentioned, I try and prioritize anything really important and I get it done ASAP because I know I will only get more tired as the day goes on.
I don't do well with caffeine, I had to stop drinking coffee because it was making me sick ever since I began treatment. I do have a cup of tea in the morning but that wears off quickly if it even wakes me at all.