Chemo and Hot Flushes
Sometime in the last few days, I think that I read something about chemo bringing back hot flushes but as I have been in the fog, I can't quite remember. I have only recently gone through natural men...
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Hey @Nadi
I was pre menopausal before chemo (45) with everything ticking along like clockwork. No sign of it at all. The second round of AC stopped everything in its tracks. 30 to 40 hot flushes a day to the point of nausea, dizziness and nights sweats as well. I had to have a fan on my desk at work even with the air con on freezing. I remember trying to put make up on at 5am and it just running off again. My ER PR status were both at 90%. By the time I finished taxol the flushes had backed of to about 20 a day and not quite as intense. Not sure if it was coincidence or not but I had begun taking a truck load of vitamin B3, B6 and C as recommended by another BC lady who had found it helped.
Are you on any hormone therapy? The reason I ask is that I got so fed up with everything (I had numerous side effects as well as the flushes) I quit taking tamoxifen for a few weeks. Bingo about 2 1/2 weeks off it they stopped. I mean dead in its tracks. I went back on Tamoxifen and it has remained the same for the last 3 months. I still occasionally get a little warm but its almost negligible and only lasts about 1minute.
XOXOXOX
I was pre menopausal before chemo (45) with everything ticking along like clockwork. No sign of it at all. The second round of AC stopped everything in its tracks. 30 to 40 hot flushes a day to the point of nausea, dizziness and nights sweats as well. I had to have a fan on my desk at work even with the air con on freezing. I remember trying to put make up on at 5am and it just running off again. My ER PR status were both at 90%. By the time I finished taxol the flushes had backed of to about 20 a day and not quite as intense. Not sure if it was coincidence or not but I had begun taking a truck load of vitamin B3, B6 and C as recommended by another BC lady who had found it helped.
Are you on any hormone therapy? The reason I ask is that I got so fed up with everything (I had numerous side effects as well as the flushes) I quit taking tamoxifen for a few weeks. Bingo about 2 1/2 weeks off it they stopped. I mean dead in its tracks. I went back on Tamoxifen and it has remained the same for the last 3 months. I still occasionally get a little warm but its almost negligible and only lasts about 1minute.
XOXOXOX