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Skin Breakout
My entire body has broken out in all these blemishes, sun spots and age spots. My arms and hands are severely burnt from the chemo and so are very sore, itchy and skin peeling. Rang oncologist and sai...
Great isn't it? Before BC you have this idea about chemo making you bald and pale and thin and sick. Then you find out it sometimes makes you puffy and sweaty and itchy and cranky and fat. And sick. And sore.
I, too, had a week or too of looking like a mangy cat. Things settled down but I've now got one particular skin cancer which has truly taken offense and needs to come off. All my age spots and sun damaged skin got really, really splotchy and sore, which was odd, I had TC chemo this time, 10 years ago I had AC and my skin was like porcelain--all the scaly bits disappeared. Go figure.
I, too, had a week or too of looking like a mangy cat. Things settled down but I've now got one particular skin cancer which has truly taken offense and needs to come off. All my age spots and sun damaged skin got really, really splotchy and sore, which was odd, I had TC chemo this time, 10 years ago I had AC and my skin was like porcelain--all the scaly bits disappeared. Go figure.