Tingly fingers

Definatley sounds like neuropathy
I did not have the tingling but I had the arthritis feeling in many places. I've had it several times. The first time it was almost a month after the last treatment and when I was on Taxatere during treatment and it lasted a couple of months later. Each time it did go away thank God. J

Yes! Yes!
to both of your questions. I feel like a 70-year-old woman sometimes. But, every morning when I wake up, I am glad that I am an old lady that is ALIVE! I'm sure the key is to get as many chemo breaks as possible, while managing long term chemo. Tricky decision making indeed, when you can't stay alive without it!

I still marvel that Bonnie Rose was able to go for 8 years almost non-stop chemo. I don't think my body could take it that long, although I am not giving up on trying, LOL.

kathleen

Question #2
YES! Don't know if it's from chemo, but you but you discribed it perfectly. Also when I lay down to go to sleep my feet just ache and ache. Does anyone have that lovely legacy?

I'm also very happy to be here, but I look and feel 90+ for the first several steps after sitting for awhile or waking up.
(((HUGS))) Maria

VickiReed said:

Numbness and Tingling
Yes Tina, I too had numbness and tingling in my hands and feet. My feet started first by the 3rd or 4th round of Taxol. By the time I took my 6th one I had trouble with walking and hanging onto things. The day I would come off the steriods I was a mess. I had major dropsies. My husband felt that if I would have to take further rounds of Taxol that I would need a walker for a few days. My gyn/onco told me that the chemo effects didn't peak until 3 months after the last treatment and it would get progessively better after that.
I too felt as though I were an old woman. I had a lot of body aches and bone aches while on Taxol. My back and shoulders hurt awful. I had a past injury in my shoulder and with the chemo it seemed to amplify the problem. It was so bad I had a very hard time finding a way to sleep.
Vicki

I have that pain!
I just finished chemo and I have that aching in my back and shoulders. Did it start to get better after 3 months? Did it ever go away? I am hoping it will get better with time.

Tethys41 said:

Pain, pain, go away
To Tina and all of you experiencing pain,
I had severe joint and muscle pain after my chemo treatments, while I was still on Avastin. Long story short, although we were blaming the Avastin for the pain, I learned that I also have Hashimoto's, an autoimmune condition that attacks the thyroid. Working with a naturopath, we are addressing the Hashimoto's with herbs instead of pharmaceuticals, the traditional way of addressing the condition. Within one week of starting the herbs, all the joint and muscle pain disappeared. There have been posts about thyroid conditions resulting from chemo. I don't know if my situation is common, or if I am the exception. But just realize that the pain may not be due to the chemo.

Grateful to not be having joint/muscle pains
I have had a lot of pain since the debulking surgery & chemo but none of it was joint/muscle pain. I agree with Tethys41 that there could be a thyroid problem that is being overlooked that is related to the body aches in some of the survivors. About 15 years ago, I had a low thyroid condition and I was exhausted by 4 pm & felt like I had been beaten by a stick by the end of the day. That cleared up when I got treatment for the condition.

Hashimoto's is an autoimmune problem and there are antibodies that show up on a blood test to confirm the diagnosis--unfortunately, most family doctors don't do the blood test for the antibodies. It is a tricky condition where the thyroid gland starts off hyper and ends up hypo (underfunctioning).

When I was getting myself educated about ovarian cancer, I found out that there is a higher rate of ovarian cancer in women who had low thyroid condition (hypothyroidism). When you look up the symptoms of hypothyroidism, most conventional sources say nothing about body aches.

LQ