I presume this is what I am suffering from but it has never been given a name. If it is the numbness in your fingers and toes my experience is that my fingers have more or less returned to normal except in extreme temperature changes. At one time I coundn't even clap my hands without pain. However my feet are a different thing altogether. It is a crazy thing to say but they feel numb and swollen (don't look swollen) but they also hurt all the time to the extent that some days I can heardly bear to walk. However I do try to regard this that in the grand scheme of things I can put up with it. I have found that rubbing the pain gel Sensofleq on the soles of my feet helps when I have a busy day n my feet. Should say that I finished my chemo 18 months ago!
My experience is similar to Jayne's - my feet and especially my toes sometimes feel freezing even thought they feel to be the same temperature as the rest of my body when I touch them.
My wife finished chemo August 2014 and her feet are fairly numb and can pain in cold weather. Her fingers are also 'funny'. She says its got better by about 20 to 25% or so. I think it possibly has got better by that amount - but also she is more used to it. I heard that it can take years.
So lets hope it goes quick!! I bought her some lovely thick gloves for winter use and some amy socks (which she doesn't wear!!)
It does improve, my fingers are much better this 2nd winter and I can get things out of the freezer now! Last winter I got some thermal socks (pretty ones!) but this year haven't needed them . All so slow and I hope everything continues to improve for your wife.
