is the FEC-chemotherapy an chemical castration?

[Trias]

Hello to all,

I'm 40 years old, from germany and I'v got breastcancer. My doc's propose to me an FEC-therapy for the next step.

My question now: is this FEC-therapy a chemical castration? or will the ovarian work after the FEC-Therpay as good as the ovarian of a premenopausal women?

Do you know some good websites, which you can advise and which have got answers for my questions?

For me it isn't import to be fertile (?). For me it is import to save the hormonproduction of the ovarian at least as an bodily old woman, but a bodily old woman which has still good sex *urgs* :-))

It semms so, that in my conutry it is not possibel to get truhtful (veritable?) informations about this. If i ask physicians, they answer different to me,: some said, that I'm premenopausal after the FEC, some said, that it is a chemical castration.

If i would have the time, i would read any book, that explains the ovarian und the hormonproduction. But I'm not able to study the whole gynaecology during the next two weeks :(

I hope, that you are capable of understanding my awfull english :)

[NED Rocks]

I was diagnosed with stage IV inflammatory breast cancer with liver and skelatal mets and HER2+.  I took FEC followed by Taxol.  My periods temporarily stoped at the end of Taxol and I started having hot flashes.  The hot flashes only lasted a few weeks, and my periods resumed within a few months of completing chemo.  Everyone responds differently to chemo; so becomming infertile is possible but not an absolute.

Good Luck
Jessi

[NED Rocks]

I also forgot; my doctor perscribed a premarin vaginal cream for vaginal dryness (I no longer need this and have a great sex life with my husband); but you can't take it if you are estrogen positive.  You'll be tired; nothing a little foreplay and KYjelly can't fix!