Hi, I'm new to this forum :-)

My backgound is that I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in 2019, I had courses of chemo, 2 x liver sections & had my bowel removed leaving an end colostomy. All was ok for a while until last year when the cancer reappeared & I went back to the consultant and then the problems started.

I have had a below knee amputation for 30 years & with well fitting prosthetics it's no issue, I would walk dogs twice a day & walk a golf course 3 times a week until last August when I had my latest round of a new (to me) chemotherapy drug.

Within a week of starting the chemo I was suffering considerable pain walking even short distances, my oncologist referred me to a vascular specialist who scanned my stump & found the cause is an artery that has shrunk significantly. He told me there's no point in trying angioplasty as even if it increased the blood flow it has got nowhere to go as opposed to if I had a full limb. My argument to him was well where was the blood flow going before the chemo shrank the artery but he's dismissive & won't agree to try the treatment. If he's right then it just leaves me limping for the rest of my days but  I would like to hear from someone who's had experiance of this either as a patient or a consultant.

Is there anyone here who has or knows of someone with a similar combination of problems i.e. lower leg amputation & chemo side effects? I can't be the first & someone must have tried angioplasty.

Thanks for taking time to read this, hopefully someone can help?