Peripheral neuropathy After Reducing Dose

Hi. It’s horrible isn’t it and such a bad time of year for it. It’s hard to say how quickly a reduction in dosage would have effect - neuropathy in itself can improve over time but I still have numb feet from mine - I would hope that the throat spasms would improve quite quickly but perhaps you could run it past your support nurse or the chemo team? 

Cold drink wise I used to drink blackcurrant juice with a splash of hot water added to take the edge off? 
Hope things start to improve quickly for you

Take care

Karen x

Hi! I had 12 cycles of FOLFOX 3 years ago and stopped oxaliplatin at cycle 10 due to peripheral neuropathy. My throat wasn't too bad, it was mostly my hands and feet and I was living in New Zealand at the time, with a much kinder climate. I found the neuropathy got worse over the following 3 months, by which stage I struggled to do little things like putting earrings on but then it slowly got better. I can still slightly feel it in my toes when it's cold (sleeping with woolly socks!). As Karen suggested, talk to your nurse about it as you need to make sure you keep hydrated.

Take care,

Cecile

That’s the thing starting to freak me out, no wonder I feel week first week after chemo… I’m not drinking enough, yea I’ll see my oncologist face to face soon so will mention it then x 

Man I wished I liked blackcurrant, everyone loves it bar me  my doc at work said try and drink any sort of fluids so have been drinking cups of tea but I’m having 2 sugars every time, I can’t win x