Increased sensitivity to heat one year after chemo?

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honeybee627
honeybee627 Member Posts: 1
edited June 2015 in Chemotherapy - Before, During, and After

My husband and I recently traveled to a place with much warmer temperatures than our home. Two days into our vacation I was stuck in the room throwing up with what I believe was heat exhaustion. It seems that my system is still more sensitive to heat and sun exposure even after a year since chemo. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this for an extended period after chemo?

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited June 2015

    The first thing that comes to mind to me is when traveling and develope nausea/vomiting is that somewhere along the trip a 'bug' was contracted. Not unusual at all.

    In the almost 6 yrs since DX, I've never had any issues with heat but cold is nasty. During neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemo my temp dropped and was often in dangerous ranges. I still am never 'normal'. Winter is horrible - always 'freezing' no matter how much warm clothes I pile on.

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  • floaton
    floaton Member Posts: 181
    edited June 2015

    Yes, I was miserable last summer. I used to love the heat. Now it just makes me uncomfortable. It is some better this year but last summer I could only go outside after 5 or 6. Mid day, forget it. Being in the sun made me get a nasty itchy rash, and made my back feel like it was covered in needles (even if not directlysun exposed). I would get lightheaded and nauseous, but never vomited. I think it took a looong time for me to get all the chemo out of my system. One of my pts said taxanes / the effects of them stay around for a year.

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  • jenjenl
    jenjenl Member Posts: 948
    edited June 2015

    ME!!! I can barely take it but i have to bc my kids always want to be outside...and so do i!! I actually fainted twice a few weeks ago....it's been 100 degrees or over these past weeks.

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  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
    edited June 2015

    I'm with kayb - I finished chemo 7 years ago, finished AIs 2 years ago, and my body still does not regulate temperature well. Like kay, running in any temps over 70 is almost impossible now. In winter when it's in the 30's I'll be running in a light top and crop running tights and still be a bit warm after a while, while all the other runners I see are bundled from top to bottom!

    I too have wondered if my hypothalamus was somehow affected.

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  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
    edited June 2015

    Kay - we sound like twins! A 30 degree day with snow flurries is perfect running weather for me these days!!!

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  • placid44
    placid44 Member Posts: 497
    edited June 2015

    Heat intolerance /inability to properly cool yourself can be a symptom of neuropathy, which can occur w taxanes. I have it also

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  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
    edited June 2015

    I had some neuropathy in my feet and fingers during chemo - by the end I found I was very fumble-footed, and my typing was horrible because I just couldn't get my fingers to work right. But that part gradually resolved itself. I never knew there might be other kinds of neuropathy till your post. I did some google searching and found that autonomic neuropathy can result in an inability to regulate body temperature, and is associated with several things, including chemo. Interesting! My annual appt with my MO is next month - I'll definitely bring it up with her.

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  • placid44
    placid44 Member Posts: 497
    edited June 2015

    Could you please let me know what she says? My onc is not that helpful on this topic. Could you ask her also whether having a feeling of swollen face (and extra sweating in face in particular) can be neuropathy

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  • NatsFan
    NatsFan Member Posts: 3,745
    edited June 2015

    I've made a note to ask about this and will post any info I get. My appt is not till the end of July so I won't have any info for another month.

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