Chemo-induced Peripheral Neuropathy and Breast Cancer
Hi. Karen here again. Since my last chemo treatment on dec 19th I've had terrible neuropathy in both hands and feet. Has anyone else had this and do you know how long it lasts?
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I noticed it almost immediately in my fingers. I thought it was just from swiping too much on my tablet. It felt like I was developing calluses. I mentioned it to both the doctor and nurse. I was told several times to let them know if my fingers got too numb to hold a pencil. They never mentioned the pain that felt like I had those metal binder clips affixed to my finger tips.
Thank you for reply and wish you the best.
Sorry to know but that seems to be the case with most of us! My best wishes!
And that could be the key. I've read other posts here where they used some kind of mitts and socks with cold packs to prevent a lot of the drugs from circulating to the fingers and toes. This appeared to have mitigated or prevented the neuropathy there.
I used cold pack mitts and socks with 100% of my taxol treatments and still ended up afterwards with the worst chemotherapy-induced neuropathy any of my doctors had ever seen. All I can say is the cold therapy definitely didn't work for me.
Just to clarify: I use the infared now to hopefully encourage nerve healing. Used cold packs during the actual drug infusions.
I used gloves and booties during chemo so far no neuropathy
Ahhh, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification.