Early Days on Letrozole

My thoughts on this whole chemical supersonic launch into menopause is this. If you watch one of those David Attenborough documentaries on the Life of Plants in fast forward versus normal speed, everything seems so frenetic. At normal speed, a climbing ivy plant does its gradual thing so slowly, you can't see it growing. Put the footage on fast forward, and they look like fricking Triffids, climbing, twisting and twirling like crazy. In a normal menopause, things change gradually, and so your body and mind can adapt easier, still hard, but not impossibly so. Once your body resets the camera back to a more normal speed, things will settle down. As I've mentioned before, I had already been through menopause very early (mid 30's), twenty years before this shitfest. Before diagnosis, I had been experiencing bad night sweats, in fact that was one of the key things the doctors were following up, (the cause of them). During chemo, and for about three months after, they were horrendous. Up to a dozen times a night and at times needed a shower to wash the slick, oily and rancid sweat off my body. I was told that night sweats can be a symptom of undetected cancer and that the worsening of them during chemo could be caused by rapid apoptosis, the rapid death of cells. Apparently as the cells (cancer as well as all the good ones), die in an accelerated way, they expel all their bits and pieces into the bloodstream, and the toxins from these dead and dying cells overload the body and can cause all sorts of havoc. I reckon you ladies going through this rapid and chemically induced menopause are experiencing a double whammy. Hopefully as the chemo is finally totally free from your body, and all the fast cell deaths are over and done, and your body starts to adapt to the lack of hormones, things will settle down somewhat. I know that this is of little comfort now as you have to deal with this, day and night, but like water, it will level out. I would be very interested to know if our brothers in arms also have experienced hot flushes or night sweats. If they have, then that would show other contributing factors other than menopause alone.