Dark nail varnish - do you need to constantly wear it?

Hi all, first post here after my first chemo yesterday. I had anecdotally heard it can help to wear dark nail varnishes to protect your nails from the chemo (am on EC) butnim bot sure how long I need to keep it on for? Do I just need to wear it for the day of the chemo and a couple days after or would negate the (positive hopefully!) impact? 

Any advice welcome! Thanks, Katie 

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  • Hi there, I wore my dark varnish throughout...I was on fec.... chemo makes us uber sensitive to ultraviolet rays, and the darker varnish may help protect our nails...

     

    i just kept topping it up, until it got silly and then removed ( acetone free remover) and reapplied straight away...

     

    hope your getting on ok? Xx

  • Ah thanks so much for a quick response! That’s great to know - I wasn’t sure about whether you should layernit on or not too. Brilliant. I love nail varnish anyhow so really pleased to be able to wear it! 

    I’m feeling very nauseous and hardly slept last night because of it. So much better today and sucking on Queasy drop sweets which I’m finding helpful! 

    Hope all going else with you x

  • I was nauseous throughout but oddly enough it went as soon as I ate (?) then came back when I stopped....it was very strange!

     

    My treatment is almost done now, chemo and rads completed...only the herceptin injections left.....

    good luck with your treatment...keep on trucking.....there is light at the end of the tunnel xx

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  • I was nauseous throughout but oddly enough it went as soon as I ate (?) then came back when I stopped....it was very strange!

     

    My treatment is almost done now, chemo and rads completed...only the herceptin injections left.....

    good luck with your treatment...keep on trucking.....there is light at the end of the tunnel xx

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