foot problems after chemo
Hello all you helpful fellow sufferers After lots of chemo with bearable side effects, I found the 3rd session of FEC very difficult.Nasea; diarrhoea and exhaustion along with something like bronchit...
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If you have a chronic disease management plan you can get a variety of subsidized visits. If you don't have one, ask your GP (and don't freak about the term chronic) The foot issues need attention, I would have preferred to see an exercise physiologist to put together a program to address all my post chemo debilitation, but there wasn't one available here.
I ended up going to a podiatrist. Predictably, she want to sell me orthotics, but since I couldn't afford them we worked on some specific stretches for my plantar fascia and my Achilles tendon, both of which were giving me significant grief. It helped.
My feet still don't feel 'right' and if I don't concentrate I can trip over them. Which is really embarrassing and has resulted in almost permanent scabby knees.