Paclitaxel and neuropathy

Hi RustyB 

I’d like to recommend that you also make your post in the Breast Cancer forum where I see you’ve posted before.

This will increase the number of people who see your post, and might have the relevant experience to share as this is more a general forum for all types of chemotherapy. 

Sarah xx

1. Hi RustyB, you’ve probably finished by now but the cold mittens and socks have been really helpful for me.  I also wear compression socks and mittens as I read a separate study suggesting they might have a similar effect. I haven’t developed neuropathy after 10 sessions of paclitaxel. My friends in the USA are very familiar with them and that’s how I discovered them.  Interestingly, no one in the oncology team – doctors or nurses – mentioned them and I haven’t noticed any other patients on the chemo floor using special mittens or socks. I think awareness of these is quite low in the UK.

Hi, yes I’m all done now. I ended up wearing compression gloves and socks for the paclitaxel sessions and didn’t suffer too much. I had leg cramps and muscle pains but no tingling or numbness in hand and feet. We’ll never know if it was the compression, but i would say that it was defo worth doing. Hope you are well x