Taxol -Leg pain

I finished my Taxol treatment over a year ago. I also had horrible leg pain, from my first treatment.I was told this pain would go away after my treatments ended. My Docotor was wrong. I suffer what is called chemo related severe Neuropathy, for which there is no cure and few treatments/medicines that help.Taxol, Taxotere, and a few other chemo drugs can cause this Neuropathy, nerve damage/destruction. These nerves and their coverings do a poor job coming back so PLEASE insist your Doctors consider stopping Taxol and switching you to something less damaging to you. Some people are extremely sensitive to this drug. If you started having severe pain from the beginning, you are one of these people too. After the damage is done,it is too late. My Doctor hands me pain medicine, sleeping pills, blesses my heart and says he will see me in 6 months.I have seen a Neurologist but none of the few medicines they have for Neuropathy helped me. The side effects from those medicines were their own impossible solutions.Good luck. Melperkins

did you have the neupogen (sorry about the spelling). my first tx 2 days later i had really bad leg pain. when i went back for my 2nd tx i ask the lady that was giving the shots. she told me to take advil before the injection then every 6 hours i did not have the pain. my problem now is that i have bad hand cramps. i don't know what to do. all of my blood work is fine my md told me to take magnesium. i still get them i had one tonight it last about 10 min, very painful. i go for my pet scan tomorrow. it has been 3 years. hope everyone is doing good. take care vicki

I had leg pain with taxotere. the first treatment was bad, but went away after a couple of days. Second treatment they upped my dose and it lingered a few more days. Third treatment they reduced the dosage and no pain. But they upped it on 4th treatment and now, after a year, I have extreme numbness on feet, some on hands. I take amitrytiline (sp), but it does little good to fight the pain. Your dr. can adjust the dosage to keep it within guidelines, but you may consider stopping. I was given the option of stopping, taking a drug that didn't have a track record or continuing. I decided to continue as my cancer is advanced and I felt I would rather risk the neuropathy than not get enough chemo to fight the cancer.