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Painful joints after chemo

I have had really painful wrists for the past 12 months, at my last check-up I asked the Docter and she did a blood test to check for Rheumatoid Arthritus but it all came back normal. I am not on any medication, but I had chemo(FEC) and radiotherapy. Has any one else had this problem. At times the pain is so bad I thought I'd broken something anyone got any advise please!!!!!


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I have joint pain and muscle pain.  My upper torso, head and next feel like it is a flu of some kind.  I have a bad headache lasting for days now but no fevor. I had four rounds of chemo 9 taxol 25 sessions of radiation.  I already have neuropathy pretty bad... can it get worse?


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Hi.

Though it is indeed possible to develop pain symptoms or syndromes after chemotherapy, this is rather somewhat unlikely from the drugs you have received and also the pain characteristic is not consistent with chemotherapy induced pains.  The pains usually caused by chemotherapy is that of neuropathic pain, and frank arthritis is not that common and is usually transient.

Aside from rheumatoid arthritis, other causes would include carpal tunnel syndrome which would need an occupational therapist, steroid injections, or a surgical operation.
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