Hi JudithAllison
Like Samex, and you, I found that by the end of chemo I was so fatigued, I could barely walk up and down the stairs in my house! I found it quite frightening and wondered how I had gone from a woman who could walk 10km a day to a woman who couldn't walk 10 steps. I remember getting out of the car one morning, parked down at the beach that I used to walk on for 2 hours at a time, and realising that I couldn't walk down to the sea and back as it was just too far. Sitting was all I could manage!
I did find radiotherapy "easier" than chemo but more because it was a half hour each day rather than long session of chemo and feeling sick. It was exhausting but a different kind of exhausting. The only thing I can say is that it passes... hang in there - you will be through it eventually and the fatigue will pass!
I am now 18 months out of the radiotherapy, and I can walk and swim and have energy again, but I still get very fatigued, and there are some days where I just can't do much at all. I get frustrated with that as I feel like treatment was so long ago - I should be feeling better. But the reality is that it's going to take a long time to recover and I need to allow my body that time (and my spirit!) The oncologist told me at my last appt that I need to give the fatigue 5 years before it will pass!! I'm just glad to think she thinks I'll be here in 5 years time!!
It will come right JudithAllison - just rest whenever you can,and all the best for the next step. Lots of deep breaths for radiotherapy - and good skin cream!
Zen