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You might want to check if your chemo infusion center offers cold therapy during chemo. If not, you can buy the cold booties and mittens. I had 12 cycles of Folfirinox and am now on Gemcitibine/Abraxane. My neuropathy in my legs/feet is very bad and I wish I'd known about cold therapy. If anyone has had any luck at all with any treatment for this neuropathy, I'd very much appreciate hearing of it.
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Acupuncture is helping me. Wish I had known about it 3 years ago when I started chemo.
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Cold therapy and compression therapy have both been shown to help reduce chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy. At least one member here, @murray3 , has reported good success with acupuncture as well. I've tried all three, and can't say if they alone or collectively have helped my case; technically I couldn't tell unless I treated one hand/foot but not the other. With that said, I'm confident there's no harm done, and I might be worse off without those treatments.
There are other herbs, vitamins, foot baths, and techniques like massage that may help, or at least not hurt. However, "overdosing" on certain B vitamins has been shown to potentially make neuropathy worse, so be careful there.