Chronic fatigue syndrome and cancer treatment

I have suffered with Chronic fatigue syndrome for about 3 years and just about coping on my own.

I'm a week away from going in to have a lumpectomy and then (hopefully ) just radiotherapy and hormone treatment.

I worried about the side effects and coping with daily living and working. 

Has anyone been through this too and how did you cope.

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  • I’ll say right from the off I don't have CFS altho I picked up some kind of virus (doctor’s description of it not mine) two years prior to diagnosis which had a long term effect on my energy levels and joints. 

    The lumpectomy I found easy. My two sites were very small and close together so I have one fairly small scar, this has healed really well and I only have a white line now. My surgeon was brilliant, altho he was a bit surprised about a couple of the things I asked,about he was happy to go along with it. 

    I found the radiotherapy very tiring, I worked thro most of it altho only half hours from about the mid point onwards. 

     

    I took a month off work when radiotherapy was completed due the the fatigue that set in but not everyone is affected as badly. It is very much an individual thing. 

     

    There is a thread on here called the good and the bad and there a lot of us breast cancer types on there, other people do pop by once in a while and everyone is welcome to chat as everyone is on the site. 

    We talk about most things, life isn’t all about cancer for us, altho for those still in active treatment we are here to support as long as they need us to.  Between us, we can probably relate to whatever part of treatment you are currently undergoing. 

    This is doable, don’t think for a minute you have to do it alone  

     

     

     

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  • I’ll say right from the off I don't have CFS altho I picked up some kind of virus (doctor’s description of it not mine) two years prior to diagnosis which had a long term effect on my energy levels and joints. 

    The lumpectomy I found easy. My two sites were very small and close together so I have one fairly small scar, this has healed really well and I only have a white line now. My surgeon was brilliant, altho he was a bit surprised about a couple of the things I asked,about he was happy to go along with it. 

    I found the radiotherapy very tiring, I worked thro most of it altho only half hours from about the mid point onwards. 

     

    I took a month off work when radiotherapy was completed due the the fatigue that set in but not everyone is affected as badly. It is very much an individual thing. 

     

    There is a thread on here called the good and the bad and there a lot of us breast cancer types on there, other people do pop by once in a while and everyone is welcome to chat as everyone is on the site. 

    We talk about most things, life isn’t all about cancer for us, altho for those still in active treatment we are here to support as long as they need us to.  Between us, we can probably relate to whatever part of treatment you are currently undergoing. 

    This is doable, don’t think for a minute you have to do it alone  

     

     

     

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