Hi

Just posted something very similar asking same thing re work. My bones in hands and feet ache. Although getting better slowly, I finished treatment xeloda a couple weeks ago. My concern is I'm making a lot of mistakes at work, I'm normally a perfectionist so I am normally hard on myself anyway but I'm beginning to think something is wrong with me.

Going to keep searching for an answer as this doesn't seem normal for me.

Sorry not an exact answer, but I hear you!

Best wishes

JB

Hi Javelin1 and JB45

We have some information about fatigue from cancer drugs and other side effects here.

You will see that fatigue is a very common side effect for lots of people.

If you would like to talk to our nurses for advice about how you are feeling, please do give them a call on freephone: 0808 800 4040 from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.

Our team would be able to advise you about how best to help you with your depression, Javelin1.

I'm sure others here will understand how you are both feeling now. This is an interesting discussion and I hope that those with similar experiences will be along to chat soon.

Best wishes to you both,

Jane

Hi Javelin,

Welcome to this friendly forum. If you are having hormone therapy, this could be the reason for your crying. I was given hormone therapy for my prostate cancer and its well know to give mood swings. It only needed a small trigger, something sad or even good, and I would have tears running down my face. As a man, I found this very embarssing and tried to hide it from my wife. Hormone therapy can also mke you feel like you are depressed allthough I never suffered from this luckily. The good thing is, the treatment was very sucesful for me and along with the radiotherapy, saved my life.

As you say you dont have any real close friends, the effect will be more noticable. But let me just say this Jan. I have been a member of this forum for nearly four years now and have made some fantastic friends on here. If you post on here whenever you are feeling low, people will respond and I promise you will make friends too. So please keep in contact and let us know how you are getting on.

Take care, sending kind thoughts and best wishes your way, Brian 

I have just had the all clear from nhl after r_chop . I have had problems with aches in every joint , especially hands . I told haematologist and she said that the treatment was not the cause and I should see my gp . I feel tired allthe time and trying to get up from a chair is a challenge.  Blood tests have come back with no action needed . Someone said that this was just me attention seeking as was my cancer  so I cannot talk to anyone , I feel so low . Is this  normal or is it all in my head and I should work through it .

Hi sorry I don't have a answer for you, but I'm going though the same thing that you are, so you are not alone if nothing else you have me.

Hi Javelin1

I had been back at work for nearly a year when I suddenly started getting panic attacks. I worked in a busy office chasing unpaid invoices and I took it all slowly. I was back at the top of my game when the attacks started - palpatations and the feeling as if I was in some sort of bubble and every one was outside. I had completed my treatment and never felt the "im gonna die!" syndrome. My Mum was having chemo so I think I was more worried about her [she has since passed] I saw The Doc and he recommended Citalopram which is a mild Anti depressant. I also saw the Mental Health Nurse. He reconned my attacks were perfectly understandable, you cope because you have to but sometimes your brain just blows a fuse !!

The tablets did help me to cope, I did not want to be the member of the team that every one else carried and I went on to be promoted !  As for aches I figured the steroids that made me eat [because I was sick a lot] made all of my muscles ache. 

Hope you are soon ok

Spooky

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hi javlin , i,ve been through same as you finished chemo now i feel all my bones are aching and i,m really depressed and confused 

Hi

Yes it isnt very nice when you feel so isolated is it? I can be in a crowded room and feel totally alone.I think us cancer survivors are   in a special club and no one can understand unless  they go through it themselves. it seems every one is just wrapped up in their own problems. I ached all over for months but it did eventuall pass. Lord knows what chemo does to your body, its a poison afterall!! the lack of support and sympathy for my illness surprises me. Only Mum helped me through it, and she has gone now too.

cheer up and soldier on

x

Yes I ve been feeling the same Javelin I hadn't even thought about the medication causing my depression but I think a lot of it is we ve been through such a trauma. I ve had other cancer sufferers tell me I ll get through it so hopefully this is just all part of coming to terms with what we ve been through and that the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer x its good to hear from others that they feel the same as I ve felt really stupid when I cry at the slightest thing x