THE FATIGUE CONTINUES

Good points, Mike. I do sleep with a CPAP, but the last couple weeks haven't been able to get into a sound sleep, so something is amiss.

One thing I forgot to mention is I had a "cycto retrograde" last week where the Doc scraped off the shoulder where a ureter enters the bladder, just so he could see into the ureter better. He also took the opportunity to grab a sample for biopsy...came back negative, so even more relief!

Bob,

I did not experience the symptoms that you described. Do you get good quality sleep when you go to bed at night? Are you able to sleep through the night?

It could be that the fatigue is caused by something else (then again maybe not). If you had it before the bladder cancer was discovered, then it probably wouldn't be from stress associated with thinking about cancer. It probably wasn't from bladder cancer itself, because now you are cancer free. It may be worse due to the BCG treatments, but those effects should have worn off in between cycles of treatment.

You may want to talk to your regular doc about a sleep study. Sleep apnea and a ton of other things could contribute to the symptoms you describe and there are ways to treat most of the contributing causes.

Best of luck with this! Doesn't sound fun at all.

Mike

As I've mentioned before, I've had issues with extreme fatigue since before discovery of my BC in March of last year. I would regularly require an hour nap most afternoons while driving to the next location. But this need for napping has intensified-particularly in recent months and now I cannot seem to get through a day without a nap. Some days I require 3-4 hours of sleep and after waking up I could just need to rest some more, it seems. The tiredness I experience is unlike anything I've ever felt before, meaning I am absolutely exhausted and just can't seemingly get rested enough. This problem has become worse since I took treatments #12-15 back in April of this year.

Has anyone experienced this amount of fatigue after contacting this dreaded disease? Could the BCG have added to this condition and made it worse? I guess my concern is what other factors could be at play here.....