Hi Alan, I'm one of the younger members of cancer forums, having ended my 12 Oxaliplatin Cycles 2 month ago and I am living as well in Europe (Germany). Obviously I am developing a neuropathy (hands, feet) which worries me more and more. Thus, last week I went to a neurologist who offered me an antiepileptical drug for treatment. This shocked me.
As I worked for long years as a pharma-PR-manager I had also served a neurological enterprise, doing mainly press-features of international congresses. So I am not even pure lay. This lays some years back, but antiepileptical treatment if one isn't epileptical, this seems a bit overdone to me. Especially if this won't cure and just soften aches and symptoms.
If one has worked for pharmaceutical enterprises one gets a bit careful and I do not intend to enlarge turnovers, when one just searches for more money-worth indications of a drug.
Perhaps my point of view is a bit hard, but I rejected this psychopharmacological therapy. Aren't there alternatives?
Please excuse my English, as I am not native. Gaby.