Feelings about being fatigued

1. Many patients talk about having fatigue. Comments from patients include:
• "...I think of what I want to do and just can't get up and do it hardly unless I push myself."
• "I could not get out of bed and walk to the bathroom and I would have to sit down... I would have to rest between each activity."
• "...just knocked me down every 'darn' month."
2. Other patients describe their fatigue as being:
• Out of energy
• Bone tired
• Weary
• Wiped out
• Exhausted
• Can't focus
3. What concerns you may have about fatigue
• Many patients have lots of concerns about feeling fatigued. Among them are that you:
• don't feel like yourself
• can become depressed because you can't or don't feel like doing things you usually do.
• may not realize how fatigued you were until the fatigue gets better.
• may have fatigue for a year or more after you finish your treatment.
• don't understand that your fatigue is a side effect of treatment and not because your cancer is growing

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