Cut in Dosage

I am having some neuropathy issues which is causing pain in my feet and hands associated with one of the chemotherapy drugs (Taxol). Essentially, it started out as feeling like I had a mild sun burn on my skin to now it feels like when your hands and feet get really really cold after you've been outside in the winter and then start to burn warming up and my hands and feet now have numb patches. I have felt these effects after each treatment, but after the first few treatments the effects were mild and they resolved themselves, but since the last two treatments, the side effect have only gotten worse and won't go away. So after chatting with the IT ladies at our local hospital and someone in the Oncology Department in GF, they have decided to cut my dosage of Taxol back by 10% starting this Friday. Neuropathy can resolve itself after treatment ends, but sometimes it doesn't. So the medical field walks a fine line with the patient in treating with Taxol once neuropathy presents itself. They want to use as much Taxol as possible to kill the cancer, but they don't want to leave the patient with a painful side effect that lasts the rest of their life either.

Twelve treatments down, four treatments to go...