I've noticed that my feet are swelling up by the end of the day, and when I go to bed my normally skin-and-bones feet look all puffy. By the time I wake up, my feet are mostly back to normal although my ankles are still a bit swollen. It's not nearly as bad as it was after I went home from a week in the hospital; my blood pressure is normally low and they didn't like how low it was getting, so I was on fluids most of the time I was there. It took days for my legs to recover from that. I had never had this problem before surgery.
I'm about to get my 12th and last dose of FOLFOX early next week, hopefully.
Is this a common symptom with FOLFOX? Should I be propping my feet up overnight so more of the liquid will get out of my legs? Is this likely to fade when I stop getting chemo? Is this something I should tell my oncologist about ASAP, or should I just wait until next week?
Sorry about the barrage of questions, but it's really bugging me that I've got this showing up so late in the game, when I still have a couple more weeks to go before I'm through with chemo.