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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Ahhh, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification.
I used gloves and booties during chemo so far no neuropathy
Just to clarify: I use the infared now to hopefully encourage nerve healing. Used cold packs during the actual drug infusions.
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.
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.
Sorry to know but that seems to be the case with most of us! My best wishes!
Thank you for reply and wish you the best.
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.
I'm sending you dozens of hugs! Your story is sad but helps me feel not so alone. My oncologist says no one ever gets such severe neuropathy from these drugs - except obviously I did. I use an infared mitten and foot socks every even for circulation boost.
I did not have to continue with meds linked to neuropathy. It concerns me that I might be faced with the need for more treatments/ meds thagg to cause neuropathy. I would talk to them about alternative meds if there are any that don’t or are less likely to cause neuropathy.