Unbearable side effects

Hello  I’m so sorry to hear about your ongoing problems. I haven’t experienced those symptoms so I can’t offer any advice there. The pain and lack of coordination could be due to nerve damage, but I’m not a medic, so will just say please ask your GP for advice and raise it with your oncologist when you see them next month. You may need stronger pain killers or a referral to a physiotherapist. 

With regard to the compression socks, the clinic that prescribed them can also prescribe and provide a donning aid. My husband has one, it’s a frame and really makes getting them on much easier. A pair of slightly grippy rubber gloves can help with smoothing the fabric out once the stockings are on. Getting them off is much trickier! 

I hope you get some answers soon and that the problem is easily treated. Thinking of you and sending lots of good wishes. 

I don't know if this is appropriate for the pain in your leg but my mother has horrendous varicose veins mainly below the knee and over her feet. She gets support socks (like popsocks) on prescription and also buys them from M &S which are far easier to get on than the tights. Hope you get some relief soon. Deb

Hi Shorty. After surgery I had to wear the thick elasticky stockings for 4 weeks. If you have the sort with a little hole at the toes, here's a tip for getting them on: slip a little plastic bag over your foot, pull the stocking on over it (it slides on easier over the plastic than over your skin) then pull the plastic bag out through the toe-hole.  This is how the hospital nurse put mine on. Later, someone gave me a little slippy nylon sock to use instead of the plastic bag. I still have it, and I still use the stockings if flying. I agree they are a nuisance though. I could not get my jeans, long boots or even some of my shoes on over them. In hospital one time I saw someone wearing stockings that appeared to fasten with a zip up the back.

Have you spoken to your CNS about your symptoms? Or GP, or even 111? Don't suffer in silence, when a phonecall with the right person might be really helpful.

I hope you are feeling better anyway. LR.

Hi . Sorry to hear your having ongoing problems after your treatments. I'm attaching some reading matter on Peripheral Neuropathy which can be a side effect from chemotherapy. Have a word with your CNS they should be able to offer advice about this condition.

If you have lymphoedema the support stockings are hard to put on and they are uncomfortable but they do the job. I thought I'd developed lymphoedema and was told if it worsened I could be referred to a specialist clinic, again have a word with your CNS.

Co-codamol is often prescribed but beware it is an opioid so can become addictive. My hubby had them for hip pain & he had horrendous constipation so he reverted to paracetamol or Ibuprofen.

Hope you get sorted soon, hugs, Barb x