Ways to Beat Stress

1. Focus on what you can control. Work smarter, not harder prioritizing your work, concentrating on the tasks that'll make a real difference.
Leave the least important tasks to last. Accept that you will not have time for everything.
2. Label your stress.
3. Try this 4-7-8 breathing exercise. Before you begin, let all the air out of your lungs and then take a breath, inhaling for the count of four,” she says. “It’s best to count 'one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two,' to get the full effect." Once you've inhaled, sit still and hold your breath for a count of seven, she says, then, slowly exhale to a count of eight. Do the exercise four times for optimal Zen
4. Snuggle your face in your dog's fur.
5. Take an at-home personal day.
6. Embrace the mess of it all.
Just accept that nothing has to be perfect all the time.
7. Watch Emily in Paris tonight instead of the news or your favorite show.
8. Exercise for at least 20 minutes every day.
9. Do something to make yourself laugh.
10. Challenge yourself
Setting yourself goals and challenges, whether at work or outside, such as learning a new language or a new sport, new card game can help build confidence. This may help you deal with stress. It can also make you want to do things and be active. Learn how to knit sew or paint.
11. Turn on some Ariana Grande or listen to your favorite music.
12. Yoga
13. Stop thinking all those negative ruminating thoughts. Try to be positive.
14. Snag 15 minutes to yourself every single day.
15. Help others.
16. Go ahead and leave the party, if you want to.
17. Take a bath—but not a bubble bath just floating in water helps.
18. Add meditation to your routine.
19. Take time for some self-pleasure
20. Sip on some warm tea.
21. Accept the things you can't change.
22. Avoid unhealthy habits
23. Connect with people
A good support network of colleagues, friends and family can ease your work troubles and help you see things in a different way.
The activities we do with friends can help us relax and relieve stress. Talking things through with a friend may also help you find solutions to your problems.
24. Read Bible and pray!

Three things are critical: exercise, sleep, and DIET. Minimum 5 WASHED fruits/vegi servings a day to include berries (antioxidants), avoid red meat and processed foods, drink minimum 8 cups of water/day, consume minimal caffeine (dehydrating), restrict or eliminate alcohol. I avoid GMO foods. Basically, a plant-based diet is encouraged. Snacks aren't evil if healthy, such as popcorn and whole grain crackers. Even a small amount of very dark chocolate is good (antioxidant). Have to get good nutrition to make healthy cells. Also need to avoid foods that negatively impact organs such as alcohol on liver, high fat foods/red meat on liver raising cholesterol, dehydration strains kidneys, eating empty carb = weight gain and strains our bodies. and organs. The more we support our general health the better we manage our disease.

I was diagnosed with MM in 2018. During the last year I have been nauseous more than usual.
I learned that a lot of the problems, especially lack of appetite, is caused by psychological issues of having cancer.
Knowing you have cancer creates unconscious emotional stress that needs to be worked out.
My Oncologist recommended I see the Psychiatrist on my team.
We talked about some things and she put me on an antidepressant and most of the sickness went away.
I almost feel normal.
The reason I bring this topic up is because most people only pay attention to physical symptoms but don’t think about the mental effects of being diagnosis with MM.
Mental stress causes more symptoms in Myeloma than people realize.
Eating and appetite are just a few of the many problems that unconscious stress can cause.
There are many different physical symptoms that MM can cause but most people don’t relate it to and many of them can be treated in therapy.

I never considered it until my doctor recommended it.
I’m glad he did.

Wandasue, that's part of the issue with cancer and nutrition... oncologist don't tell you what nutritions roll is in all of this. Check out the Gerson diet. If you follow it it'll reset your immune system.
In my mind nutrition is just as important as therapies...

I’m 67 and was diagnosed with MM one and a half years ago. I did the stem cell transplant a year ago. I quit maintenance after two tries because the side effects left me totally fatigued all the time and my brain power was 50% of normal. For me, and I stress this is very personal to me, that is not a life worth living.
Today, I feel as good as pre-cancer. I eat a lot of protein - 50/50 plant based and meat. That is far more protein than pre-cancer and it boosted my energy a lot.
I don’t favour organic because, at my age, the MM will get me long before the pesticides do. Perhaps I should have gone organic 40 years ago.
5 small meals a day, lots of fruit and veggies. Works for me.