Best way to ice hands and feet

I take a couple of small frozen water bottles with me and hang on to them during treatment. It's worked well for me. You can order ice socks from Amazon. They are easy to use.

I used bags of frozen peas that I brought in a cooler. I used large bags for each foot, then held two bags on my lap on a towel and dug my fingers in. I also kept ice chips in a Tervis Tumbler to keep in my mouth to help prevent mouth sores. I iced from 10 minutes before the start of Taxotere until 10 minutes after. I received IV pre-meds for about 30 minutes, then Taxotere first, followed by Carboplatin, then Herceptin, and the Taxotere was infused over about 60 minutes. I did not ice for neuropathy prevention, I iced to keep my nails. I used supplements for anti-neuropathy with the blessing of my MO, 30g of L-Glutamine (10g, 3x day, dissolved in a cold non-acidic drink) and a standard vitamin B6 capsule.

rockcity - I am skeptical about icing for anti-neuropathy, but I am a believer in icing to prevent nail loss. The peas stayed cold enough to make it through the entire infusion of Taxotere, but frozen peas are pretty inexpensive - you could bring extra ones and swap out half way through. I even re-froze the peas when I got home! I have found that nursing staff will often discount icing, but I was willing to do it, and once they found I didn't need to involve them they were fine with it. Nail loss is really problematic so I wanted to try to prevent it every way I could.

My nurses filled bags with crushed ice for me and gave me small towels to put underneath. I didn't need to bring anything. I was the only one icing but they were more than happy to help me. I did the same as others, thin socks and rolled the Baggie over and under toes and dug my fingers into the other bags. I would wear the surgical gloves they have there so my fingers didn't get wet. I iced probably up to my second knuckle. I did have to pull them out occasionally. No lost nails and no neuropathy

traveltext - it depends on the center, but there isn't crushed ice at my center so nurses wouldn't be able to provide it, or tubs to put it in, and I had chemo at the largest private oncology practice in the US. I know some centers have the mitts and some are now providing scalp cooling also, but it is not standard practice by any means. Some centers also provide lunch, snacks and beverages but mine did not do that either, other than readily available water.

rockcity - I brought a small towel and put my feet on top of it and placed the peas over the front of each foot. I used large bags for my feet to make sure the pinky toes were totally covered. For my hands I put a towel on my lap and put both bags of peas on the towel, then dug my fingers in like a claw so the nails and fingers were kind of embedded. Keep in mind I was doing this for my nails, not trying to prevent neuropathy so I was less concerned about the whole foot or whole hand. I would occasionally take one hand out and pick up my cup to get ice chips for my mouth too.