Pain in Legs

Drained6513 · July 2017

It has been 4 and a 1/2 months since last chemo. About 2 weeks after last chemo my legs became stiff. If I sit for a bit, getting up is hard and in the mornings getting up from bed is too. And walking is like having two stiff wooden pegs for legs. My legs ache when I am laying down and my legs are not limber like they were before chemo. My Oncologist said this will go away in time and it was from the Taxol. It hasn't gone away yet. I have been working out...trying to get back to being limber...and when I think I am on that road to eliminating this... it just comes back and back after I have finished sitting etc. In the morning it feels like my lower legs...the veins are hardened. Is this ever going to go away. It feels like I have damaged my lower leg veins and they have gone hard or something. Could this cause a blood clot? I obviously didn't have this before treatment, so how do I get rid of this?

Summer2016 · August 2017

Drained6513----you are not alone. I have painful feet, legs, torso, forearms and hands. Have been to podiatrist all summer. Two steroid injections in my heel and wear a boot a night. I take magnesium and aleve, ice and prop legs and feet, exercise (walk and rowing). Nothing seems to help. I have days where my chest muscles will not expand and I get shortness of breath. My hands are asleep Every morning and off and on throughout the day. And as someone else explained my lower legs feel as if someone filled them with concrete in fact that's how if feel around my rib cage. The bottom of my feet have stabbing, burning, tingling etc some days I can't walk. My last office visit with MO I tried to discuss the side effects from taxotere. MO just kept saying that it takes time to heal from chemo. Well, I am 5 months out from chemo this Aug (2017). And not only am I not improving.....I'm actually getting worse.

Pain in Legs

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