Hi @Tasia,
Ive just finished taxol a week ago. About 9th cycle i had similar issues. Like @Afraser i was very worried about my feet and could barely walk and also my hands which were just all pain. I had a week off and then my oncologist reduced my dose.
I think this helped my mental game. I daydreamed at week 9 about being told i could just finish chemo. 3 cycles seemed like forever. But i was oddly annoyed by the delay. I had been telling myself chemo would be done by end of 2020 but now it would flow over to 2021 which i hoped would spell more positivity. (Really made no difference). On the plus side my hair started growing back with furvour so i now have a light carpet of long fluff (not full coverage). My hands are much better. My nails are sensitive to pressure and my feet are still bright red and have some pain but nowhere near the pain they were. Im sure given another week or two will subside.
Hope this buoys you along. 3 cycles isnt much when you havecalready gone through so much particularly at a reduced dose.
M
Dear @MicheleR,
Thank you for sharing your experience of Taxol.
I presented my reasons for choice to terminate and onc ʻgot itʻ.
PN in my fingers and legs (not feet) raised concerns and the outcome fell into place.
I have met with the breast surgeon and planning surgery.
The rest, once again, remains foreign terrain x
