Yes, we can add hormone therapy to the list of things I will be doing for the next 10-15 years, alongside immunotherapy. In my case, I’m on Tamoxifen, which will block oestrogen in the breast tissue. Because my cancer was oestrogen hungry, we are killing its food source😁

And this comes with its own set of side effects, one of them being medically induced menopause.

Such fun! 🤗 (to quote one of my humour heroes, the lovely Miranda Hart❤️)

I’m a couple of weeks in and I’m taking a pill daily. That’s going to be a lot of pills over the years. 

Supposedly, when it’s time for me to go naturally into menopause, I’ll stop the pills and continue with immunotherapy. Although I believe that somebody will have come up with even more effective treatments by then. Either way, I’ll be living my best life😎

Until that time though, I’m living my best life while preparing for the stormenopause. My medical team advised that I’ll experience most symptoms around the 5-6th week of taking the pills and that they should die down by the 12th week.

Such fun!🤗

So far, I’ve got a bit of acne and hot flushes only on the face… I can literally feel my face burn and go red while I’m talking to someone or watching TV.

It.is.weird. 😐

I’m expecting the hot flushes to eventually discover that there is more to me than just my head and that they will explore the rest of me at some point🥵

There might be some mood swings on the horizon too. Who knows?

I will keep you updated since I’m expecting a spectacle. Because while most women go through menopause over a 10 year span (give or take a few or more years🤪), I’ll be pressing that “speed up” button and go through it in 12 weeks😑

I’m trying to remind myself to be grateful that it will be over and done with faster. However, I’m suspecting a wee bit of tension and maybe a mini pandemonium💥

Such fun!🤗

When the monster appears, just throw chocolate at me. And souvlaki. Just nothing with turmeric or soya, because that works against the hormone therapy. And now I want curry and I don’t even like curry. And sushi. But I like sushi.

I think the mood swings have started.

You’ve been warned 😈

*cracks back*

Run.