Vein pain!

Hi,

have you contacted your chemo nurse specialist? They may well have a few ideas to try. Ask them if taking anti inflammatories might help? Ask too if alternating heat and cold might help? (Always start and finish with cold) 

always helpful to talk to the experts, to be honest, even though they are busy it’s better to check it out with them. Hope you alternate arms anyway? And warm with heat pad while having chemo? the other suggestion is to ask them to slow the infusion and increase the carrying fluid on the next times too, they will know which drug causes the problem. 
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hugs xxx

Hi and welcome, I can’t add to what moomy has told you. All my chemo (different Lymphoma and chemo) was put in through PICC or Hickman Lines.

Do talk it over with your team.

Thank you Moomy for getting back to me. I have contacted the cancer helpline before and was told just to take paracetamol. I do try to alternate arms when getting  chemo but sometimes its not possible depending on where the nurse finds a vein. I have asked the nurses to slow the infusion and they flush it for longer after as well. I may try alternating hot and cold and see if that helps. It’s probably just something im going to have to try and cope with. It’s keeping me awake at night so im getting a bit irritable with it all. 

Fraoch 

Oh that sounds miserable, have you thought about a PICC line for the remaining treatments? As that would mean faster chemo plus no bother with cannulating again? 
hugs xxx

I had lots of trouble with vein pain during my treatment with ABVD. I found applying ice to my arm helped to reduce the pain. After my first cycle the nurses diluted my infusion and slowed it down - this helped and I wasn't troubled after that.

Hope you get this sorted.