Vaginal Dryness, Itching, and Pain After Breast Cancer Treatment: What's Actually Happening and the Treatment Most Women Are Never Offered
If you've been quietly putting up with vaginal dryness, itching, or pain since your cancer treatment, this post is for you. It's the conversation most doctors aren't having, and the one that could have saved me from a painful biopsy scare I never needed to face.
Treatment-Induced Menopause: Why It Hits Differently (and What Nobody Warned You About)
Most women navigating menopause after cancer treatment were never warned it was coming. Not properly. Not with enough information to prepare, to ask the right questions, or to understand why their body changed so suddenly and so severely. This post is the explanation nobody gave you, what treatment-induced menopause actually is, why it hits harder than natural menopause, the specific risks your medical team may not have named, and the questions worth asking before treatment begins. Because surviving cancer is not the finish line. Living well is.
HRT After Breast Cancer: What's Actually Possible (And the Conversation You Deserve to Have)
Can you take HRT after breast cancer? The answer is more nuanced than most women are ever told. Sonya Lovell explores the current evidence, the options available to Australian women, and why shared decision making, not a flat refusal, is the standard of care you deserve.
A Different Journey of Perimenopause and Menopause
I recently joined the Connect Talks podcast to chat about my experience living through a cancer diagnosis followed by a medically induced menopause.
Listen in as I share my experiences, advice and story, which anyone experiencing a chronic health or a mental health condition, alongside perimenopause and menopause after cancer may feel a strong connection to.
Breast Cancer and Menopause
In this episode, Sonya Lovell, a breast cancer survivor and menopause advocate, shares her powerful story of navigating life after cancer. Diagnosed with breast cancer in her 40s, Sonya underwent chemotherapy and was thrust into medically induced menopause, leaving her unprepared and unsupported.
In this episode, we discuss the challenges Sonya faced with hormone therapies like Tamoxifen and Letrozole, and how she took control of her health with strength training, hormone therapy, and lifestyle changes.