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Fatigue

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Having had a stoma fitted in January of this year, followed by 5 1/2 weeks of radiotherapy ( with 2 weeks of chemo at the beginining and at the end) I am suffering horrendously with fatigue.

do you please have any advice as to how I deal with it? I can manage a 'normal' day followed by 3 or 4 days pretty well flat on my back and sleeping 24hrs at a time?

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    Hi Neil_b,

    During and after my cancer treatment i had a huge amount of fatique. I think this is normal. I had to pace myself, just do the essential stuff. I was told by my consultant , that the more exercise i did the more the fatigue symptoms would abate. This is true, but i think after treatment is when i started to exercise. Your body is going through so much, perhaps by sleeping and resting it helps the healing process. I feel for you and i've been there , it, such a difficult time. There is light at the end of the tunnel because i got there and i really hope the same for you. Wishing you the best .

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    Hi Neil_b,

    During and after my cancer treatment i had a huge amount of fatique. I think this is normal. I had to pace myself, just do the essential stuff. I was told by my consultant , that the more exercise i did the more the fatigue symptoms would abate. This is true, but i think after treatment is when i started to exercise. Your body is going through so much, perhaps by sleeping and resting it helps the healing process. I feel for you and i've been there , it, such a difficult time. There is light at the end of the tunnel because i got there and i really hope the same for you. Wishing you the best .

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