Nail / skin discolouration on FEC 100

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Hi all,

 

Hope you are all doing well today.

 

I am on FEC-T chemo, but have yet to start the T part, my nails are very discoloured already just from the FEC, each of my nails looks as if I have trapped it in a door with purple colour growing from the nail bed - does anybody have any experience of this?

 

Also, my fingers and toes have darkened considerably during my treatment so far, especially in the creases of my joints - anybody else?  My onc says that sometimes it fades, sometimes it doesn’t - great!  In addition to the darker colour in the skin creases I have some blobs of dark colour in some of my finger tips and on the soles of my feet - unsightly, but painless.

 

I suppose I am getting concerned with all these changes on FEC that I might be worse in relation to skin and nails on Taxotere.

 

Any advice or input very welcome indeed.

 

Love Su

 

XX

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Hi Su
Some of my nails started to go black on the FEC too. My oncologist told me that it was unusual but not unheard of. I wore dark nail varnish throughout the T part and although my nails were very ridged, brittle and yellow by the end, they’ve hung on in there, haven’t lost any, and are growing out well. To be honest I think they took more of a hammering from the FEC. I’m 3 months post chemo and the skin is back to normal colour and the black bits of the nails growing out. x