I don’t think I’ve fully mentioned this to you yet, but I’m currently going through hormone therapy for the next 5 years, in the form of a Lupron injection each month and Anastrozole (don’t ask me how to pronounce that), a pill I take everyday.  Having had a hormone-sensitive breast cancer, a tumor that was ER+, the goal of introducing both drugs to my body is to help to suppress my ovaries so that it lowers the amount of estrogen produced while blocking activity of estrogen production. Basically, good-bye estrogen.  

Some fun side effects that I’ve experienced so far…

• Night Sweats (drip drip) – see photo of old pillow below #barf
• Minor Hot Flashes
• Mood Swings – just in the past 3 days, I’ve cried, laughed, got hellishly angry, irritated, tired, irritated.. FUCK ALL.

It’s also a pain in the ass to go drive to Santa Monica once a month for a shot in the butt (insert inappropriate butt-stuff joke).  But I know what this really means for my future and keeping me healthy.  It’s worth the drive and $12 parking.

Oh! I almost forgot to mention.. with this fun-ness comes some loss in bone density.  To counter that, I recently had my first Zometa IV and shit, did I get sick!  OMG. I was perfectly fine going back to work the day of but the next day I was going downhill so quickly.  “Flu-like Symptoms” that’s a load of crap – I thought I was deteriorating.  I could barely stand, all I did was sleep. I was extremely cold one hour and next, I was burning up. And that went on for a full day.  But the next day I was 90% better and it was so weird.  I swear, if my supervisor is reading this, I was not pretending to be ill (like people sometimes do).  I’ll get another IV in 6 months… i’m looking forward to it! 🙂 I really hope everyone understands my sarcasm. 

With Love & Hugs,

P