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Hi,

Have you tried taking a cold shower to fight off fatigue?

I have never experienced heavy symptoms from TKI, don't blame it for everything negative I feel, but after spending a week of just feeling tired and lacking motivation I found that forcing myself to take a cold shower was an immediate benefit. It was either the cold shower itself or pushing myself to do something unpleasant that made me more motivated afterward.

It is summer now where I live, so it might sound like I'm cheating...

Anyway, hope this ancient "everybody knows but nobody wants to do" method can be beneficial for some.

Best,

I’d also add that having CML or any form of cancer can cause depression. This defo effected me for a time and I had massive fatigue, I wanted to sleep all the time, even not long after waking up after a full sleep. Only when I got on top of things mentally and physically did my fatigue go completely. So the take home is TKI can cause fatigue but also so can depression. It’s difficult to know what caused the fatigue but mine went as mentioned above.

Alex