Peripheral Neuropathy

Hi @minimum67. I looked for gloves last year when I did the 12 weeks of Taxol and they were all sold out on Amazon and my hospital had stopped using them . Never thought to try eBay @SoldierCrab ! So I googled and found out about women using good old ice (yes the frozen water kind!) as a preventative. I used basic disposable gloves on my hands and wrapped my feet in basic plastic shopping bags and plunged them in ice in old cake containers (!) (my size 7 feet fitted nicely) for the hour. It was cold and painful to start but then they numb and you don't feel anything. I don't know if it was just me but I didn't get any neuropathy and didn't lose any nails. A friend of mine is doing her Taxol now and has fashioned a couple of supermarket frozen goods bags(you know the blue ones with the silver lining) into boots and has ice gel packs in freezer bags for hands...very clever . My doctors pooed pooed the idea and said they had no evidence ice worked and kept telling me some women don't get to number 12 dose because of the neuropathy, so I was happy to prove them wrong! You could always take Panadol for pain while icing as the women using the cold caps do but I always had someone with me to talk to and distract me so the hour went quickly!
Good luck with it all x