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How many chemo
my chemo was cancelled today due to feet pain or rather no feeling on one hand I was happy chemo be gone on another I'm wondering is 3 months of AC 8 weeks of taxol enough? Followed by radio anyone else stopped chemo? I want to live but I feel ready to leave chemo if I can't walk properly get back to the gym I willl go insane meeting with onco on Thursday I've never liked her just want stats my bc nurses all said we always do more so is 4 doses viable? I feel mentally and physically drained ready to move on I don't want to do another drug ever?
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Hi There
if you feel you struggle with speaking to your oncologist, ask your gp for a referral to someone else for a second opinion. You may well have to pay for the consult but it will be worth it for peace of mind. Good luck. Karen xox
Hi there
Taxol is a pain, I went through the same panic about my eighth session. Fingers weren't good but feet were downright painful and not working. I also had awful worries about not walking, wheelchair, the lot.
Good news is it didn't happen and I finished all 12 sessions.
Vitamin B seemed to help a lot - or possibly the symptoms just started to get better when I started on it. But it's very unlikely a vitamin B tablet a day (take the mega) will do you any harm, so worth doing (but tell your oncologist). My oncologist was good, we had a long chat about it, and the bottom line is what constitutes a therapeutic dose? Oncologists will tend to go to the maximum possible, in the hope of the best outcome. Worse, nearly all cancer treatment is not guaranteed - if you KNEW it would stop cancer ever coming back, the feet would not be such a worry.
What turned me was finding a lump under my right arm at the same time!! The mere thought that cancer could return, while I was still have treatment, convinced me I wanted to finish the course. The lump was completely unrelated, benign and no problem, but it did sharpen my thinking a lot.
My symptoms did get much better - not perfect, and not fast but utterly manageable.
This is hard stuff, but you will feel a great relief when you get to the end of the course.
Best wishes
