Fingerprints!

dianetavegia
dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
Most of you oldies know I voluteer at a number of different places. I recently decided to formally volunteer with another group of youth and that called for an FBI fingerprinting. Went today to have that done and kept being rejected because I've lost most of my fingerprints. We finally were able to get them up to an 80% and pass me.

I had FOLFOX and had not ever seen any mention of that causing you to lose fingerprints. Just a heads-up for those who might travel overseas or need prints for a job, etc.

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  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    #2
    Fingerprinting
    Just got mine done and didn't have any trouble. Never heard of that. Wow criminals would love that wouldn't they.

    Kim
  • khl8
    khl8 Member Posts: 807
    #3
    I have heard that. wonder
    I have heard that. wonder if mine are there?
  • jararno
    jararno Member Posts: 186
    #4
    I had heard about Fingerprints
    I had read about this happening after Chemo. I remember joking about it being a great time to hit a bank ( kidding !!!!! ) Very interesting side effect!!

    Have a great day!

    Barb
  • idlehunters
    idlehunters Member Posts: 1,787 Member
    #5
    jararno said:

    I had heard about Fingerprints
    I had read about this happening after Chemo. I remember joking about it being a great time to hit a bank ( kidding !!!!! ) Very interesting side effect!!

    Have a great day!

    Barb

    Lost Mine
    When I first bought this laptop 2 years ago I was not on chemo. It is one that you scan your fingerprint to sign in. Worked great until chemo took my prints and I was no longer able to sign in that way....still no prints. Weird

    Jennie
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #6
    idlehunters said:

    Lost Mine
    When I first bought this laptop 2 years ago I was not on chemo. It is one that you scan your fingerprint to sign in. Worked great until chemo took my prints and I was no longer able to sign in that way....still no prints. Weird

    Jennie

    does the world know???
    gosh do you think the criminal world knows about this.....??//

    nothing like a nice stretch of folfox just to achieve fingerprintlessness....

    kiddin

    mags
  • lisa42
    lisa42 Member Posts: 3,625 Member
    #7
    interesting
    Hi Diane,

    I'd heard of this before. Recently, when we went to Sea World, they check you if you're a pass holder at the gate by having you put your finger over a fingerprint scanner. Mine worked fine apparently. Today while I was having chemo, another woman there who is on Folfox said that she has a really hard time using her Ipod Touchscreen now & that it works fine for everyone else in her family, so she assumes it has something to do with the chemo. Weird! What I find weird, Diane, is that it's been quite a long time since you stopped taking the chemo & that it's been a problem for you all this time. Glad it's coming back!

    Lisa
  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    #8
    Wow
    That's freaky!

    *hugs*
    Gail
  • sharpy102
    sharpy102 Member Posts: 368 Member
    #9
    jararno said:

    I had heard about Fingerprints
    I had read about this happening after Chemo. I remember joking about it being a great time to hit a bank ( kidding !!!!! ) Very interesting side effect!!

    Have a great day!

    Barb

    HAHA
    @Jararno: LOL...let's do a couple more rounds of chemo and then we shall meet by the corner of Bank America! ;) Jk! LOL :D
  • coloCan
    coloCan Member Posts: 1,944 Member
    #10
    tootsie1 said:

    Wow
    That's freaky!

    *hugs*
    Gail

    Back in May of 2009, a man returning to US from Singapore
    had difficulty at airport as his fingerprints were gone. That was the first I heard of Xeloda affectig one's fingerprints. Despite the future chemobrain, I've always remembered this as my Tx ,which included Xeloda, was about to begin at that time and I'd hadn't read of this effect but Xeloda DOES cause loss of fingerprints, as I've since seen for myself. It also made my poor handwriting even worse but wit Oxi and radiation, it did shrink my tumor prior to
    surgery......Hope everyone else gets positive results......steve

    PS:while I've heard of this only with Xeloda, other chemo probably can do this as well, as well as other things we don't yet know about.....
  • dianetavegia
    dianetavegia Member Posts: 1,942 Member
    #11
    Bank Heist! LOL
    I knew Xeloda caused fingerprint problems but never thought about the 5 FU doing the same. Never had any peeling during chemo and it has been 16 months since chemo ended. Since 5FU is the intravenous form of Xeloda, makes sense.

    This was the digital fingerprinting and not the black ink type.
  • Kenny H.
    Kenny H. Member Posts: 502 Member
    #12
    dianetavegia said:

    Bank Heist! LOL
    I knew Xeloda caused fingerprint problems but never thought about the 5 FU doing the same. Never had any peeling during chemo and it has been 16 months since chemo ended. Since 5FU is the intravenous form of Xeloda, makes sense.

    This was the digital fingerprinting and not the black ink type.

    intresting. Add a shaved
    intresting. Add a shaved head & 50lb wieght loss & nobody will ever know it was you that did it!
  • HollyID
    HollyID Member Posts: 946 Member
    #13
    I thought I might have posted about this
    quite a while ago.

    I too lost my fingerprints. It was a real trip to get into the narcotic drawer at work and in to our time clock since everything is done via fingerprint. :) They're now just coming back and I can use them again. I too thought of robbers and banks when I had none.

    We worked around it, but it was a pain in the keister!!

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