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Weekly chat thread 14th September
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I watched the new episode of Ted Lasso last night and I identified with Ted so much when he was sitting on Keeley’s couch alternating between happy and sobbing. My brain pulled a Roy and went “Fuuuuuuuuuuck” because that’s exactly how I feel. Happy most of the time, but sobbing on the inside and more frequently on the outside.
I’ve been tracking my cycle for the last few years and noticed it’s become cyclical. The migraines, the insomnia, the crazy high then super low almost nonexistent libido, the brain fog, the emotional rollercoaster of extreme happy then super low, the rage, then a few days later my period starts. It’s all cyclical. I tried talking to my doctor that I think I’m starting perimenopause and she kind of laughed it off and said I’m too young for that 🙄
I’m 42. I am not too young. I pay attention to my body. I have noticed these things happening more frequently. This is about the same age my mom started having weird emotional outbursts for no reason.
I think I want a new doctor. She’s nice enough, but this isn’t the first time she’s been kind of dismissive of me. The first time she was flabbergasted that I didn’t have physical therapy after breaking my back and when I tried to explain I was broke as fuck, barely able to feed myself, and my insurance sucked, she gave me a referral for physical therapy. When I went, the first thing the PT did was ask me to touch my toes, and I did. He said I didn’t really need it if I didn’t want to because I passed all his tests easily, so I didn’t go back. And she was kind of pushy about wanting to use an AI transcriber the last appointment. It really sucks because I would have hoped a woman doctor would be more sympathetic but my previous man doctor was a lot more receptive.
Either way, I think I’m going to get a new doctor and talk to my gyno about HRT options. It’s getting a little crazy and I just want to be able to function again. Thankfully the ladies I work with are super open about their perimenopause and menopause experience, so that helps but fuck it’s so frustrating! 😫