Chemo and Menstrual period?

Ugh... YES.

Had my first chemo in May and then had the mother of all periods about two weeks later. I was like... ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?!

Downed a load of painkillers and noped out of the world for a couple of days.

That was my last period during chemo. I had one a couple of weeks back, which was then about 6 weeks after chemo ended. It was surprisingly a pretty normal period for me.

Hopefully you'll feel better soon. Trust our bodies to come up with creative ways of responding the whammy that is chemo!

Thanks Radge for your reply. I´m sorry you had to deal with that too! Do you mind me asking how old you are? My onco has said that due to my age, 46, chemo might stop my periods altogether and I might be thrown straight into menopause. This situation just gets better and better, right! 

I'm 38. I was half-expecting my period to not come back, or to take months and months before it did. But apparently my ovaries are "keen"!

I did have menopausal symptoms during chemo so thought they might just continue afterwards - I think that's pretty common for women in their 30s and 40s.

Ah so you´re a fair bit younger than me. I wonder if anyone else is reading this who´s in their 40s and had their periods stop altogether after they finished chemo too? I´m a bit nervous about dealing with the menopause on top of fighting cancer 

Yeah - it's a huge consideration. I did think for a long time about the hormone treatments because effectively I had the option to take zoladex and go into the medical menopause. The positive side of doing that for me would have been a controlled menopause, rather than perhaps years of perimenopause and not really knowing when or how it would happen. I decided against it (for now) in the end, but if I'd been a little older I think I'd have been more up for it. I did experience menopausal symptoms during chemotherapy and I wondered if the menopause might just continue for me after that.

I can't recommend highly enough Breast Cancer Now's Someone Like Me service for stuff like this. They match you with someone who has had the exact same considerations but is further down the line to you. It's been invaluable to me talking about all the hard decisions I had to make during treatment and wondering about stuff. I was a bit nervous about speaking to someone at first but honestly it has been wonderful - the volunteers are just great.

Do give it a try!