infections after treatment

I can definitely recall having several infections post chemo, mainly sinius infections. Our bodies have been poisoned and are just run down. I have been using echinecha drops in my morning orange juice for last three years and it seems to be keeping infections at bay. Its herbal! Worth a try. The Doc Morris chain were selling it with 30% off recently. Aside from that sleeping and eating properly also help...if you head was not in a good place recently it was perhaps affecting sleep which of course has a knockon effect in terms of general health.

Look after yourself and please don't try to do too much before younare able.

Lindylu

For what it's worth, I have NEVER met as many people either coughing and spluttering or vomiting and diarrhoea affected, as I have over the last few weeks. So it doesn't surprise me to hear you are knocked out too. However, while I relatively flew it through surgery/chemotherapy/radiotherapy/Herceptin, I am feeling the going very tough at the moment with my energy level being at what I consider to be an all time low. I just feel so tired/drowsy. What's the story people?!?! I'm factoring in me going back to work last July and also that I only finished all my treatment in November but I was hoping I would be feeling way better than this. Any thoughts? I have said it to my lovely friends in uniform in the Breast Clinic & they weren't surprised, but is this really right?

I just feel with the emotional and physical trauma we have or will go through from the day we are diagnosed it will take a long long time before we feel anyway 'normal' again. Our bodies have gone through so much. I'm sitting here nearly two weeks after my last chemo (and very happy with that) absolutely exhausted with a taste in my mouth. I was a social animal before all this and I've zero interest in going out for a meal or drink which isn't like me but I've no energy and I'm happy to sit in. I don't think I'll go out again till I have hair lol. I know I'll get back out again it just seems too much like hard work at the moment xxx

I know what you mean WWL (abbreviating Wicklow Lady)!

I was the same, from a social point of view - I worked in our local bar/restaurant and absolutely looooved the work because I got to meet all my lovely neighbours and friends on a regular basis.

Then I got diagnosed, and I became the local celebrity (I joke not; my daughters used to call going to Dunne's Stores "Celebrity Shopping" because of the amount of people that stopped and talked to me!) and it was just so lovely getting so much support, kind wishes, good deeds, cards, flowers, chocolates, dinners, fruit, veg; you know yourself. So I think I'm now "peopled-out" a small bit, and I find myself getting a bit cranky and resentful of my personal space and time being invaded if I go out for something to eat or a drink.

Plus, everyone was used to me being an night-owl, and I just get a bit fed up sometimes when people say "Ah, you're not going home now are you?", if I start saying my good-byes before mid-night. Really, they don't have a clue that I've been struggling to keep myself from yawning for the previous hour!

But if that's all I have to give out about, there is fear of me!!

Good luck with everything x

Thanks ladies for replies
Reckon I will be visiting gp again on Monday.
Im with you girls on the staying in.I don't know if its the tiredness is lack of confidence in myself but its just too much effort to go out.last night out I went on was in June to my 40th(kinda had to go!!!)mind you I was 6 weeks post op and I think still high on drugs as I outlasted everyone .not a chance of that now past 9pm and I'm in a this if I'm not near my bed.
You know I am so grateful that treatment is finished and I was 'lucky it was caught early but sometimes I can't help thinking that the cancer was the easy part.its the after effects and the lingering side effects of it all are harder to deal with.its a very lonely disease to deal with.
Back in with plastic surgeon on Thursday so back to my second home and the sad part is I nearly feel more at ease knowing I will be in the hospital this week!!!!separation anxiety honestly.

Thinking of you all this forum is a great support
Hugs and best wishes
Xxw