Hi, This is my first post. I am 68 yrs old and I had a large tumour removed from my bowel 2 years ago, followed by 8 courses of chemo. I have coped with it pretty positively as my father had bowel cancer and I had always sort of expected it to happen to me and when it did my attitude was "OK here it is now let's deal with it". i have had my 2 year check and all seems good I guess as far as you can ever say.
What I would like to ask if anyone else is suffering such extreme tiredness. I sleep and eat well but every day I am hit with this exhaustion . Not just feeling tired but like being hit with a sledgehammer and I just need to go to sleep. Fine if I am at home but when out it is very hard to deal with. I have had blood tests and all is fine so is this just something normal following chemo . I have been told that sometimes you never get your energy back but this is so bad it is interfering with life.
Now looking back at what I have written it seems a minor thing with so many of you dealing with so much more, so I send my thought To all of you and I really do believe that my positive attitude did help me to deal with this all. I hope that maybe I can help someone else on this site sometime.
