Joint Pain After Chemotherapy: Everything You Need to Know 

I appreciate your continuous support of breast cancer (health), thank you Dr. Griggs,

Dealing with this right now. Get in the car or sit for a while and when I get out or up both my feet are really stiff and makes walking hard, until they warm up again. Love your videos. You have helped me a lot in my breast cancer journey. Love your calming voice too :)

Very helpful first time this has been fully explained about inflammation. I did notice an improvement in some areas on chemo but never knew the reason why ? ….until you explained this. Thank you.

This explains so much. lol I have osteoarthritis in both of my knees, so I know all about inflammation. But I noticed that when I finished chemo a month ago, my knees have been way more stiff and achy than before, and I couldn't figure out if I had done something or not. All of my joints were hurting the last month of chemo but that mostly went away. The knees persisted though. Thank you for this. Knowing I should get back to my normal is helpful.

Thank you for another informative video. 💕

YES! They didn't start immediately for me, but months later and it was awful. Fortunately they only lasted for about a year at most. Now I don't have them, but do still have neuropathy in the front half of bother feet, and across the skin on my upper belly. Thanks doc FOR YOUR WONDERFUL EXPLANATIONS. 🤗🥰👍

I underwent chemo about 2 and a half years ago, and I am dealing with joint pain in my elbows and hands. Thank you for your videos

I had chemo and finished the treatment and started to develop joint pain in my knees and now in my hands. The most frustrating thing (other than the pain and discomfort) is the denial of my oncologist that the treatment had anything to do with it. My opinion is that just as chemotherapy affects the hair (which has a different texture once it grows back) and the nails and even the skin to look dry and wrinkled so too it affects the cartilage surrounding the joints. I wish the medical profession would stop being so defensive (as though a patient will sue them) and own up to the fact that yes, chemo and trial drugs do leave a patient with long term side effects. It’s time that they worked on something to ease the effects of post chemo treatment.

I’m curious about the flu-like aches I feel in the thick of the “bad days” during a chemotherapy cycle (DC). Why do they happen? They’re very painful, but they’re all over-not confined to the joints. I think this is a fairly common symptom but I don’t see much written about it. I appreciate your work. All the good info makes a very difficult journey just a little easier.

What about joint pains from Anastrozole?

I noticed a few things were better on chemo but certainly not something I'd want to continue. I got very painful knees after each infusion of taxol and shooting pains to my ankles. Fortunately this stopped soon after stopping chemo. Very slight neuropathy but a year later its gone.

Just over two half years since my chemotherapy bad joint pain in my knees and back pain is still there. Also the neuropathy has not subsided either so walking on my feet is sometimes difficult and holding, trying to pick things up is a problem to as its in my fingers plus there is osteoarthritis in both my thumbs. Feels like an ongoing battle every day 😔

Thank you for your videos. I wonder if taking Acetyl L-Carnitine would prevent Chemo Induced Peripheral Neutropathy?

Superbly informative concise vid. I stopped chemo after 3 yrs (NED now), and in just a few wks my fingers are feeling very arthritic with swollen joints, hope it subsides as fingers needed for guitar playing!

Yes, I realised. I thought it was because of the corticosteroids that are given along with chemotherapy. Hashimitos disease.