Fatigue

I started to urine blood (alot) 2 weeks after my surgical. From that day onwards, i was very fatigued and sleep almost whole day. My doctor just give a me iron supplement to boost up my iron and to increase my red bloood cell....... Things get better after one week plus.... I now feel alot better and active again.....

I also had extreme fatigue before my diagnoses but I had Hashimotos (thyroid disease) so I assumed it was from that boy was I wrong!

Did you consult with your Primary doc? 5 is not good at all! 

And yes, it could be other things too. Most good docs run a battery of blood tests to get to the bottom of this.

Have you started Slow FE? Its sold at any drug store.

Let me know!

Geez..

Hugs, Jan

I have been really tired. For no good reason. The kind of tired I got when I was first pregnant and the baby was a mere speck, where you came home and laid down on the bed at 5pm and went to sleep.  I wonder if that was "Kev" growing?    The weird thing i have had is hot flushes at night and somtimes in the daytime.   I am a woman of the right age to be starting to get hot flushes but I have also read it might be related to the kidney tumour.  Something to do with Kindeys regulating body temp.  Will be interesting to see if it goes away after the 9th. 

Today marks my one month surgery anniversary.  8cm tumor, RCC stage 3 with sinus involvement.  Initial post surgical pain was from largest incision but more so from the CO2 they pumped into me to distend my stomach cavity.  The CO2 took a week to completely void itself from my system.  At it's highest pain level it was causing razor sharp stabs in my shoulders and the pain was a solid 9 on the richter scale. That's all behind me.  So is the oxycodone. 

My present post-operative concern is fatigue.  Even modest movement, say a slow walk around the block, wipes me out and I have to take a nap.  That's okay as I'm home recovering.  But in a couple more weeks I need to return to work.  I'm concerned that I won't be over the fatigue hump and will nod out at work.  I never expected laparoscopic surgery to result in fatigue whenever I expend energy.  Has anyone out there had a similar experience from a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy?

I briefly read through your posts and I saw that you had an iron level of 5.  That would certainly explain the fatigue.  Back in 2010, I had an abdominal condition called a sigmoid volvulous.  Essentaiily, a portion of my intestines twistd 540 degrees and shut themselves down.  Long story short, I had to have major emergency surgery to take out about 18 inches of my sigmoid colon and had the lovely experience of having to wear an ostomy bag for about 2-1/2 months.  My hemoglobin level during this fiasco went down to about 7 or 8 and my surgeon told me she wouldn't dare have me go through the "reconnection" surgery unless my hemoglobin went up substantially.  I was also severely underweight, so I had the enviable task of eating myself back up to a reasonable weight and a decent iron level.  I ended up eating a lot of meats of various kinds, having cream of wheat (very high in iron) a couple of times a day, and I drank three bottles of Ensure each day.  Yeah, I'm crazy, but I actually enjoyed the taste of the vanilla flavored Ensure that Costco sells.  Anyway, immediately after the initial operation, as I said, I had a hemoglobin reading in the mid-7's and my weight was about 140 (I'm 6'2" tall, so at 140 pounds, I disappeared when I turned in profile).  In about 8 weeks, given the diet I undertook, I got back to 180 pounds and a hemoglobin reading in the mid-12's.  After getting reconnected, I stablized at about 170-175 pounds and my hemoglobin is in the 13's now.

Annissa, my sister uses essential oils and she gave me some peppermint oil for my nausea and it has helped.

My tumor was found in August after a raging bladder infection with a lot of blood sent me to the urologist. I had my surgery on November 8th. The plan was a partial but ended up having a total because of location of tumor and my kidney was slightly tilted. Anyway, for the last couple of years I always felt like a could lay down and go to sleep all the time. Now, even though I do get tired easily it seems to be a totally different kind of fatigue. It also seems as though I've had some changes (for the better) in my hair and nail growth. Has anyone else experienced this?