Suffering extreme skin, hyper sensitivity while on chemo
So at the moment, I don’t have cancer, but I do have rapidly cloning white cells hanging out in my kidneys doing damage.
About an 18% chance of me getting a multiple myeloma or some other form of cancer .But the chemo I’m on should be lowering those chances as well.
They’re giving me a immunotherapy and chemo in the fatty part of my stomach subcutaneously once a week for the next six months and then after that every other week for I’m assuming at least another six months. So far I’ve gotten away with no major symptoms. No nausea very little fatigue. No actual neuropathy. The only thing that’s happening to me is what I would call like reverse neuropathy instead of losing sensation or getting pins and needles in my fingers and toes. My skin is hyper sensitive almost everywhere..
For example, I took a T-shirt off the other day and as the cloth brushed over my back, I screamed out because half the nerves in my back all fired at once it wasn’t Pain but it was like feeling the shirt rub over my back with 100 times more sensation that it normally would give me my upper arms and shoulders as I wear a T-shirt becomes super sensitive because the cloth minimally moving stimulates the skin in those areas and by the end of the day, even though it isn’t pain, it starts to feel like pain because those areas have been stimulated so long every move I make is being interpreted in my brain as pain.
Hard/deliberate touch feels fine but soft touch like my kid lightly putting her arm around my back feels like an overwhelming level of sensation.
My doctors aren’t sure what to do about it because it’s not a normal symptom of the type of chemo I’m on ,and meds like gabapentin are more targeted and like I said, it’s kind of reverse neuropathy.
Has anybody else had anything like this the sensitivity is moving locations about every day and a half .Minus the shoulders or rib cage but those get the most friction throughout the day.