Travelling in NZ was a trial because I experienced severe fatigue every day. In addition, I found myself struggling to eat and as a result ate very little. This is very different from what happened during chemo-radiation treatment. During treatment, when I didn’t feel like eating I could push through without consequences. At present, if I eat too much, or too fast, or the wrong food I can vomit. As David says, I have only vomited 2 times, but that was enough to make me super cautious about eating. Tomatoes, cucumbers and plums were the preferred nutrition sources but not much protein there! Whatever the cause it must have been developing for are while because I lost 7kg in the last 4 weeks (Now a svelte 79kg). I wasn’t trying to lose wight. I just wasn’t eating.
My troubling symptoms are:
Severe fatigue and sleeping lots – sleep that does not restore
Light headedness/dizziness – especially on standing up
Not eating (nausea and fear of vomiting)
Headache
Mild breathlessness with exertion (eg walking up the stairs at The Gove)
Feeling like I am going to faint
Neck/ upper back soreness (thought it was from the 60k cycling Day 1)
Brain fog – poor concentration.
I went to the GP this morning (18 March, 2025). The doctor took my blood pressure, 100/63. The lowest reading for me in the 15+ years that he has been our doctor. My usual BP is around 115-120/78-90.
GP thinks that the weight loss may mean that my meds are causing low BP. He recommended that I pause my BP meds for a week or two, but asked us to buy a BP machine to monitor closely as well. We now have an Omron BP Automatic BP Monitor. The first reading was 105/61!
I feel better after downloading to GP and after hearing that the possible causation might be as simple as low BP. The CT scan will be more definitive if more sinister things are in action.
