burning skin

lori1961
lori1961 Member Posts: 56
in Breast Cancer #1
Hi, have not been on the board for awhile just wondering if anyone has trouble when they start sweating, it feels like the skin is itchy or burning. Have 6 rounds of TAC and finished in April and finished Rads July 1 and 2 weeks of Tamoxifen. Thank you for anyones input, feel like I am crazy...

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  • mamolady
    mamolady Member Posts: 796 Member
    #2
    itchy
    My skin has been itchy, not burning though. I just figured it's residual from chemo since it is not only where the radiation was? Or it could just be the heat? If you get other info I would be interested to know.

    Cindy
  • poplolly
    poplolly Member Posts: 346
    #3
    I started peeling right as I
    I started peeling right as I finished radiation. It looked awful--like a bad sun-burn where a breast should be.....
  • lori1961
    lori1961 Member Posts: 56
    #4
    mamolady said:

    itchy
    My skin has been itchy, not burning though. I just figured it's residual from chemo since it is not only where the radiation was? Or it could just be the heat? If you get other info I would be interested to know.

    Cindy

    burning skin
    TY Cindy thought that is what it could be sinc never had it before... will let you know if I hear anything different...
    lori
  • lori1961
    lori1961 Member Posts: 56
    #5
    mamolady said:

    itchy
    My skin has been itchy, not burning though. I just figured it's residual from chemo since it is not only where the radiation was? Or it could just be the heat? If you get other info I would be interested to know.

    Cindy

    burning skin
    TY Cindy thought that is what it could be sinc never had it before... will let you know if I hear anything different...
    lori
  • lori1961
    lori1961 Member Posts: 56
    #6
    mamolady said:

    itchy
    My skin has been itchy, not burning though. I just figured it's residual from chemo since it is not only where the radiation was? Or it could just be the heat? If you get other info I would be interested to know.

    Cindy

    burning skin
    TY Cindy thought that is what it could be sinc never had it before... will let you know if I hear anything different...
    lori
  • gami43
    gami43 Member Posts: 281
    #7
    poplolly said:

    I started peeling right as I
    I started peeling right as I finished radiation. It looked awful--like a bad sun-burn where a breast should be.....

    Lori - I finished Taxotere
    Lori - I finished Taxotere in April and during the time I was getting it my hands turned a very sunburned color, was itchy and then started peeling. It was that way for a good month.
    I have it again now; in addition I had to see a dermo last week because for aeveral weeks I have had a burning, itchy, red rash all over the tops of both feet. She said it could be a late reaction to the Taxotere; she gave me a steroid injection and oral stteroids for
    a week along with a tube of cream called "VANOS" to use twice a day. I have really gotten relief from the burning and itching; the deep reddened rash is slowly improving. Hope you can sleuth out your symptoms - burning skin is not fun!

    Teresa
  • carkris
    carkris Member Posts: 4,553 Member
    #8
    gami43 said:

    Lori - I finished Taxotere
    Lori - I finished Taxotere in April and during the time I was getting it my hands turned a very sunburned color, was itchy and then started peeling. It was that way for a good month.
    I have it again now; in addition I had to see a dermo last week because for aeveral weeks I have had a burning, itchy, red rash all over the tops of both feet. She said it could be a late reaction to the Taxotere; she gave me a steroid injection and oral stteroids for
    a week along with a tube of cream called "VANOS" to use twice a day. I have really gotten relief from the burning and itching; the deep reddened rash is slowly improving. Hope you can sleuth out your symptoms - burning skin is not fun!

    Teresa

    when I get hot I feel
    when I get hot I feel "prickly" type burning sensation. which is different, i assumed it was the chemopause. dont have any skin changes or anything.
  • sinee
    sinee Member Posts: 196 Member
    #9
    Hey Lore
    Nothing so far..peeling away, and almost completed...still some discomfort under arm and along breast line..but no rash or burning..keep us posted as to what is going on...we can all learn something...2nd day on the pill...so far so good...love to you my pink sister
  • tgf
    tgf Member Posts: 950 Member
    #10
    sinee said:

    Hey Lore
    Nothing so far..peeling away, and almost completed...still some discomfort under arm and along breast line..but no rash or burning..keep us posted as to what is going on...we can all learn something...2nd day on the pill...so far so good...love to you my pink sister

    hands
    About my 2nd or 3rd taxol treatment the tops of both of my hands started breaking out ... itching and burning like heck. Drove me nuts. My oncologist sent me to a dermatologist who gave me some sort of salve type stuff to use .... and it cleared up in a few days and never came back.

    hugs.
    teena
  • deeb111
    deeb111 Member Posts: 141 Member
    #11
    burning
    Hello yes I still get burning I believe its after effects of radiation and surgeries cause I did not have chemo and I wonder will it ever feel normal again so you are not alone and I do hope for all of us we get back to normal if there is such a thing after cancer
  • survivorbc09
    survivorbc09 Member Posts: 4,374 Member
    #12
    poplolly said:

    I started peeling right as I
    I started peeling right as I finished radiation. It looked awful--like a bad sun-burn where a breast should be.....

    Some have the itching after
    Some have the itching after rads, so, could that be it?


    Jan
  • missrenee
    missrenee Member Posts: 2,136 Member
    #13
    deeb111 said:

    burning
    Hello yes I still get burning I believe its after effects of radiation and surgeries cause I did not have chemo and I wonder will it ever feel normal again so you are not alone and I do hope for all of us we get back to normal if there is such a thing after cancer

    I had an itchy right forearm for a couple of months
    after I finished 6 rounds of TAC and rads. I would be scratching it constantly. Sometimes I put lotion on it or water just to try to make it stop. It was not my affected side. I have no idea why it itched. And then, as quickly as it arrived, the itching vanished and it hasn't itched since. Another one of those: "things that make you go hmmmm"!!

    Hugs, Renee

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