Red hot skin irritation from chemo

I wonder if you sleep on that side of your face. Runny eyes and noses as well as all manner of drippy and dribbly events are part of the deal for some of us during chemo.

It took me a while to figure out why I had a rash on one corner of my mouth and chin. Turns out that the relatively benign process of dribbling in my sleep was enough to cause skin breakdown during chemo. I couldn't fix it, sleep trumps skin rashes during chemo, but at least I could console myself that it wasn't some weird new thing I had to try to fix.

Hopefully this too will pass. It would bloody want to. Marg xxx

I did around my face, hands and feet. No way could I wear any make up. I soothed it multiple times a day with pure aloe vera gel with no alcohol in it.

Taxol is well known for skin rashes. I had very dry irritated skin. I couldn't wear chains as it would leave welts on my neck. I couldn't have hot showers as the water felt like needles on my skin. I got a weird freckle on my face. I know of some ladies with red blotchy skin all over. 

Use very gentle cleaning products and always wear a hat outdoors. Kath x

I'm due to have radiation in a few months. I can just imagine my skin will go like this too if not worse as I have such sensitive skin. 

I had radiation and I had this raised rash that followed wher the radiation went and I couldn't use sorbelen had to use calangalen cream, when my treatment stopped the rash went and I could use sorbolene again, the nurse thought it was very strange as most people can use it I must have just become very sensitive.