Posted 5/2/2022 10:10 PM (GMT 0)
I have been on continuous ADT since diagnosis in 2013 --- with chemo and nine weeks of radiation thrown in there --- and on ZYTIGA for over six years.
My lesson learned?
Even a half-hour of exercise can pay dividends.
Get outside, if you can - yardwork, gardening, or take a walk.
I walk every day. There's a thousand benefits to getting outside.
You have been through a lot. Treatment exhaustion and lingering fatigue is real.
My clinic asks a few depression screening questions at each appointment for all their patients.
To be honest, you may have some mild depression --- lack of interest in usual activities, lethargy, and so forth. Can you discuss this possibility with your doctor?
You have been through a lot, so it's certainly understandable, if this is the case.
Some suggestions that may help mitigate your fatigue:
Set an earlier bedtime, but set some simple exercise goals.
My radiologist told me that nine weeks of radiation would take a toll.
His mantra, which I have never forgotten:
"The day you don't FEEL like exercising is the VERY day you need to exercise the most."
My dad - who stands beside all of us here as a fellow prostate cancer patient --- who survived a months' long hospitalization on oxygen with covid before the vaccine was available, and is ALSO a 25-year leukemia survivor --- gets up every morning and walks all around my hometown, up to the post office, and around the town park.
Dad's example inspires ME --- and everyone in my hometown.
His doctor has said even a 30-minute walk pays dividends the rest of the day.
Small goals, consistently done, each day ...
Thanks for your honest post --- we're all in this together ---
CYCLONE - # Iowa State University