Meadow

Your post inspired me to finally sign up! I was like you, very healthy, active, etc. Melanoma requires complete change in attitude in what will be your new normal. I was on Braf/Mek for 8 months and was fine for the first few months and then experienced fatigue, fever, muscle cramps, eye problems, neuropathy, hair thinning, etc. It completely sucked and I would gag if I saw someone taking pills on TV. BUT it shrank my melanoma enough that I could get surgery so it was successful. The fatigue took a couple of months to recover from and my hair eventually came back (new growth was frizzy).

You can compare it to a Grimm’s fairy tale, like the Swan Brothers, you have been tasked with something terrible, but you have to just do it if you want to live. Nothing in fairy tales is ever free, there is always a price to pay. Melanoma is the same way, nothing is given and there is no guarantee that it will work. I wish you the best and you may be one of the lucky ones that doesn’t have side effects.