Exercise with sore feet

Hi Birchtree 

Welcome to the forum ! Good question about exercising whilst on this treatment .

Have you used fitflop or sketchers with memory foam soles  ? Mum moved onto them and finds it helps considerably . Her treatment is currently affecting her toenails .

She did cap tablets two years in a row and whilst it did get a bit worse it did not become problematic to that level . They are inclined to intervene if it does . Keep your team informed . A slight does reduction helped my mum considerably.

Take care ,

Court 

Hi Court.

Thank you for the sketchers and fit flops tip! I’ll have a look at them. Am talking to my team too. 

I hope your Mum’s toenails get sorted.

Birchtree

Hi Birchtree and welcome to the board. I’m a walker too and a big fan of sketchers. Luckily my hands weren’t affected by the chemo but I didn’t mention my feet as they weren’t too bad and I wanted to finish all my sessions. When the nurse looked at my feet she stopped my chemo (I was on capecitabine alone by then) and they actually got worse for a couple of weeks after stopping. I had continued walking through my treatment although I dont know if this would have made things worse or not?

Anyway it’s now 6 years since I finished chemo and my feet still feel like they are sunburnt - they feel hot and like the skin is too tight. It doesn’t stop me walking but it’s just a warning to keep talking to your nurses and keep moisturising.

Hope the remaining sessions go well 

Take care

Karen x

Did try and edit my post to fix the typos but the system is not allowing me . As a dyslexics it’s a bit frustrating. However the memory foam soles are good ! . 
You take care and hope your treatment goes well .

Court 

Hi Karen

Another vote for sketchers! Sorry to hear you still have uncomfortable feat years on but great you are still walking. I’ll keep talking to the nurses and keep moisturising!

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Hi Birchtree

Which parts of your soles are sore?

A high risk area is the pads of feet - the bit of foot that touches just after the toes - sorry don't know anatomy words. Same for palms of hands just below fingers.

The condition is also known as Palmar Plantar if you want to use that in a search on Macmillan site.

In addition to soft, loose fitting shoes, my oncologist recommended a thick moisturiser, thickly applied morning and evening to reduce risks of soreness, dryness, skin splitting and getting infected from chemo. Aveeno or Cetraben seem to be popular choices.

I found this did enable the skin and soreness recover to then do any type of exercise (well, until my fatigue and neuropathy kicked in )

Court - I’ve found it doesn’t update the post until you’ve gone out of the board and back in again - very confusing! x

Oh right ! Thanks for that Kareno62 . Just looked back and you are correct . 
I do everything on my phone and always in a rush which is not a great combination but the thought of not being able to edit was frustrating. Now I have a solution . Brilliant!

Have a good day! 
Court 

Hi, Birchtree  some folk seem to get an improvement by switching to 5FU by IV rather than the tablet form. Just a thought. All the best

Hi court.

Think the thread hiccup was my fault. I too was editing my post but accidentally caught the 'report to moderator' .. it was on my own post, but think it can then hiccup others posting at very same time. Soz!