[quote=rosymonroe]I had the "3 big bag" Cisplatin and I guess looking at these post I was pretty lucky. Besides the extreme N&V after the first dose, nausea for a few days after the next 2 doses and the usually taste and lack of appetite problems and hair loss so far so good. As far as I can tell I have no lasting effects yet. I take that back, I get an occasional ringing in my ear, and I mean very occasional, maybe once a week for less than an hour. And I get a tingling in my left shoulder blade sometimes that the docs don't seem to think is connected to any of the treatment but it was never there before. [/quote]

It is from treatment and some from inactivity during treatment. The tingling and numbing is usually from vascular constriction and nerve impingement. Scalene muscle entanglement with the brachial plexus is instant relief for shoulder pain, numbness and tingling in limbs.

SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023