Chemotherapy causes nausea, weakness and hair loss. Certainly challenging enough to manage during cancer treatment. Add to that hot flashes, flushes, night sweats and cold flashes, a clammy feeling, sporadic rapid heart beat, irritability, mood swings, sudden tears, insomnia, fatigue, feelings of anxiety, dread, apprehension, difficulty concentrating, disorientation and mental confusion, and you have chemo-induced menopause. For premenopausal women who are diagnosed with cancer, chemo-induced menopause comes quickly, without warning. There are no years of perimenopause, where symptoms of menopause begin to ease their way, wispy and whispery, into a woman’s consciousness, signaling change is ahead. No, with chemo-induced menopause, a woman is pushed into a dive off a cliff, praying on the way down she can remember form and have the ability to swim.

Sue Richards blogs personal perspective and experience at My Menopause Blog, on how to punctuate life without a period. Her daily life is simple and rich, a complexity of moments she weaves into a story of continuum worth telling. From hot flashes to life stages, men and menopause, menopause fashion and menopause news, Richards is authentic at all times, sharing inherent confusion and insight into one of the most significant stations in the journey of a woman's life. My Menopause blog, in being all about the menopause phases, of transition and transformation, in all the quirky moments of getting from here to there, and hot flashes in between, is a welcome respite and repose, an oasis of charm in wit and wisdom for women.

 Minnie Pauz offers Minnie Moments and humor replacement therapy - her version of HRT. Power Surge, in its 13th year online, is a warm and caring community for women in menopause. Power Surge was created by Alice Lotto Stamm, better known by the online persona, "Dearest," a name given her by a friend who installed her first AOL software.

Women are intuitive in knowing it's best not to travel alone, and building community leads to healing. The station after menopause is an arrival into the mystical circle of wisewomen, the gatekeepers of community. The journey through menopause a challenge in time of life changes. For chemo-induced menopause, a challenge of life changes defying the natural designs of time.