Everything hurts but I am still smiling.
Written 20th August. With hindsight I would say that it is easier to blog when things are OK. Hormone therapy hasn't been OK. Today I start on my second type of aromatase inhibitor (AI) after being taken off the first for the last month. The first, in combination with the injections brought me a bit of a mental breakdown on the same week I returned to work and if that wasn't enough they have slowed me down physically with really hideous joint pain on top of body soaking sweats and an uncontrollable appetite. The injections stop my ovaries from producing oestrogen, this gives me equivalent to a normal menopause but without a gradual build up of symptoms. The AIs then stop any oestrogen made in my body fat from being absorbed. This residual oestrogen is the kind part of a natural menopause, the softening edge for most. Because zero oestrogen is being absorbed by my body, my brain is telling it to create fat so that I can produce oestrogen, this has made me unhealthily in...