I was reading a fellow blogger’s entries about menopause and it got me thinking that I had not talked much about the chemo induced menopause that I went through. OK where to start?
When I was getting ready to start chemo therapy I did a lot of research on it and read that it could possibly put me into menopause. I mentioned it to my oncologist and he said well yeah that is a possibility. Well did he not think to tell me about that? Could it be because he is a guy and just did not think about it?
Whatever the reason was for his not telling me I am glad that I had read that it was a possibility because when I started chemo therapy I also had my last monthly visitor. At 35 I was put into chemo induced menopause and I was nowhere ready for it. I had heard about the hot flashes, mood swings and all the other things that you hear about but I was very naïve.
I had no idea when they said hot flashes that it felt like I was dipped in hot lava at any time of day without notice. I would be walking through Wal-Mart and just start getting hot. The night time ones are horrible to you can go to sleep nice and comfy and wake up all hot and sticky. I would get up and turn the ac down and my husband and kids would pile on their blankets and feety pajama’s and I would still be hot.
The mood swings are another thing all together; I would start crying for no reason at all. It was absolutely ridiculous I would be sitting there watching the news or just reading a book and I would break out in to tears for absolutely no reason. My poor husband and kids thought I was going crazy.