Peripheral neuropathy may or may not go away over time. There are medications which supposedly can help, you would need to talk to a neurologist about this. Some people are helped by low doses of primadone (an anti-seizure drug) or similar drugs, but always after careful evaluation by a neurologist. The peripheral nerves do have some ability to regenerate.

Cisplatin is one of the worse offenders in causing this side-effect, some of the taxanes as well (e.g. Taxol). Our MO gave my husband carboplatin instead of cis- as he already has some problems with essential tremor of his hands (controlled by primadone) -- both our MO and RO said several studies have found no significant difference in efficacy as radiosensitizers in HNC chemoradiation between the two platinoid drugs, but cis- is still given to most patients as it has the longest clinical history and results data.

Gail