Hand and feet side effects - becoming a struggle

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Hi everyone,

Has anyone else been on Paclitaxol and ended up with issues with their hands and feet?

My hands are sort of okay now compared to 2 weeks ago, my doc ended up giving me steroid cream due to the redness, which cleared my hands up nicely.

But my feet right now, are super sore, the soles are becoming red, they are very very swollen and I seem to be getting blisters oh and they are very itchy!

I was wondering does anyone have any tips on how to help these? I have been soaking my feet in salt water but it doesn’t seem to be working now

I only have 1 week left of Paclitaxol, I am hoping it will start to clear up but I am really struggling.

Missy219 1 day ago

Pax and Carbo were a nightmare for me - I had every side effect under the sun but not hands and feet like you.

Have you spoke to them about it? What about just a plain moisturiser? Also if they’re itchy what about antihistamine?

I am now on cape chemo tablets and have rashes all over - took an antihistamine and used some hydrocortisone, helped massively xx

TrickeryCleric92 1 day ago in reply to Missy219

I'm back on Wednesday so I'll speak to them about my feet then. I had steroid cream for my hands but they told me to stop using it after 7 days.

My skin is horrible right now I hate it. I've been using body shop Hemp cream which does and doesn't help. I think I've used soo much of it now that it's lost its effect lol.

I've had some of the other side effects but this one is just destroying me, it makes it really hard for me to walk

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