The Bachelorette alum Katie Thurston has revealed she's in medically induced menopause as her treatment for cancer is ongoing.

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"Slept like sh-t because I'm now in medically induced menopause, which means I get hot flashes," Katie, 34, shared via Instagram Stories on Tuesday, May 6.

"Tonight I have to be social so I figured I would ease into that by being social with you guys during the day. In the meantime, show you kind of what a normal day looks like for me."

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Katie kicked off the video clip by filling up a cup of water "to the brim" and adding electrolytes because her medicine made her "so dehydrated."

Katie continued, "My lips have been chapped for what feels like two weeks straight, and so it's this game of, like, catch-up and trying to just make sure I get enough water."

The Bachelorette alum admitted she was "already bad" at drinking enough water before she started her medication.

"And now it's like a true task every day to force myself to consume water. So, good morning!"

Katie captioned her post, "Tired AF from menopause and dehydration AF from medication.'

Katie, however, managed to rest up and find the energy to attend The Bachelorette alum Zac Clark's Release Recovery party in New York alongside his rumored girlfriend Kaitlyn Bristowe.

Last month, Katie had shared that she no longer need chemotherapy for her stage 4 breast cancer -- at least not in the near future.

Katie previously explained how she was first diagnosed at Kaiser in Los Angeles with triple-positive stage 3 breast cancer and then received a second opinion and learned that, not only is she stage 4, but she might not be triple positive.

When Katie was transferred to Columbia in New York, where she currently lives with new husband Jeff Arcuri, doctors did a biopsy on her breast, lymph node and liver. She then discovered she is, in fact, HER2 positive.

"Because of the cancer I have, this actually allows for an alternative treatment plan. This means no chemo," Katie said on social media at the time.

"I now have the option to do hormone-blocking therapy instead of chemotherapy. I'll be taking a drug called Kisqali, which is a targeted oral therapy, Letrozole, which is an anti-estrogen pill, and Zoladex, which is a once-a-month shot which will shut down my ovaries and help reduce estrogen."

Katie called her treatment plan "a cookbook of recipes to help fight this," and she added, "The approach we're going to be taking is going to give me the best chance at long-term control with less side effects."

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However, Katie wrote in the caption of her April post how chemotherapy is not completely off the table yet.

"Could I need chemo in the future? Maybe," Katie clarified.

"If this treatment stops working or if the cancer grows again, it's an option we'll revisit. We will closely monitor the treatment plan and make sure it's working for my body."

Katie's hormone-therapy treatment will stop estrogen from fueling breast cancer cells to grow, according to the American Cancer Society. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, is designed to kill rapidly-dividing cancer cells.

Katie revealed her cancer had spread to her liver in late March, just one month after she had publicly announced her battle with breast cancer.

"I had a small lump in my breast... I discovered it myself," Katie wrote via Instagram Stories in February.

"[I] thought maybe it was my period [or] maybe it was muscle soreness from working out. But, eventually, this lump never went away."

When the lump remained for several months, Katie decided to visit her doctor for a mammogram, which ultimately indicated the presence of cancerous tissue.

Following her diagnosis, Katie sought fertility treatments so that she and Jeff can welcome children one day. She also got married on March 22 in an intimate backyard wedding.

Katie said she and Jeff will have a bigger wedding, complete with personalized vows, after she beats cancer.

"It was this kind gesture of him saying, truly, in sickness and in health," Katie gushed to Us Weekly.

"He is proving that he's here to stay. He shows up every day and he does it in ways that just continue to surprise."

Jeff apparently decided that he wanted to be Katie's husband, officially, when she begins her treatment.

"I want to be able to be in the hospital with her and just be like, 'My wife's in there.' There's more power to that," Jeff said. "I don't want to be not with you for any of this."

Katie explained how she and Jeff don't know what the next year is going to bring and so they didn't want wedding planning to weigh on them.

"And one night he said, 'I want to show you that I still love you and that I'm here to stay. I'll get married to you tomorrow.' We flew our parents in from Michigan and Washington State. We got our marriage license and a friend is just going to marry us," Katie shared.

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Katie, who competed on Matt James' The Bachelor season before starring on The Bachelorette's seventeenth season, saw Jeff for the first time in March 2024 on Instagram and sent her friend a video clip of one of his standup acts. Katie told her friend that Jeff was going to be her "future husband."

After talking on the phone for three to six hours daily, Katie and Jeff met in person for the first time in Los Angeles in early May 2024. The pair then got engaged three months later in August 2024.

Katie added how Jeff's humor helps her and he's been to "every single appointment" with her thus far and administered all of her IVF shots.

"[Chemotherapy] does raise the risk of you not being able to conceive. Knowing that we wanted kids in the future, we thought, 'Okay, let's do IVF just to have that option.' We dedicated two weeks before doing anything else breast cancer wise to doing IVF," Katie shared.

Katie went on to share, "A lot of women don't even realize that you can take 10 days to dedicate time to your reproductive health and your future family plans. We were able to retrieve 17 eggs and of those 17, six became embryos."

Prior to falling in love with Jeff, Katie had a short-lived engagement to her The Bachelorette 17 winner Blake Moynes.

Katie's The Bachelorette season ended on ABC in August 2021, and then she and Blake -- a Canadian wildlife specialist -- announced their breakup only a couple of months later in October 2021.

Katie then went public with her romance with John Hersey, whom she had eliminated during Week 2 of her The Bachelorette journey, in November 2021. She was accused of moving on from Blake quickly with "a rebound" and emotionally cheating on her ex-fiance.

Katie and John split after less than one year together in June 2022, and Katie expressed on numerous occasions how John had dumped her after she allegedly gave the relationship everything she had.

After ending her relationship with John, Katie made a cameo on Bachelor in Paradise's ninth season in 2023 and found closure with Blake, who remained her friend post-show.

Katie then she decided to pursue a unique opportunity and look for love on FBoy Island.

Katie had a brief public relationship with FBoy Island's Vince Xu, but Katie announced their breakup in December 2023.

Katie then soft launched her relationship with Jeff in January 2024 when she was asked to give dating advice on Instagram, but she didn't reveal she was officially dating Jeff until June of last year.

Katie had announced at the time: "Safe to say he's making it to hometowns next week," which was a nod to her prior The Bachelorette stint in 2021.

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