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Beauties,
If you are not into TMI, exit now!! Like, go. Run. I am about to tell you about more symptoms of my menopause. Not because I love sharing ultra personal things, but because they aren't talked about and that made me think there was something seriously wrong with me!!!
It was an all-of-a-sudden experience for me with painful sex and vaginal dryness. It came out of nowhere and it was frightening for me. I was really concerned that something was wrong.. did I have an infection? Is there something suddenly anatomically wrong with me? What is going on? I cried and cried. I had just had my first hot flash within 24 hours of this experience, but I didn't immediately put the two/three things together. It wasn't until my next hot flash that I googled menopause and realized that painful sex and vaginal dryness are also symptoms. I was emotionally and mentally relieved.
I don't know if menopause also caused me to have a lower sex-drive, or if it was fear that it was going to be painful again. Thankfully, I have an incredible partner who I tell EVERYthing to (poor guy) and so we have worked through it together. For me, I do think it's probably a mixture of fear of the pain (which I think is completely linked to the vaginal dryness) AND a slightly lower libido due to menopause.
Thankfully, I have not experienced a drastic drop in self confidence (big menopause side effect). I would imagine that a lower self-confidence would just add to the symptoms I'm already experiencing.
One symptom is hard enough. When they start multiplying, it can be (was for me) overwhelming, scary, frustrating, confusing, maddening... YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Tomorrow, I'll tell you some of the things that I'm doing that are helping with my symptoms and give you an update on my HRT.
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