@Shanmonster@c.im
@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party @cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com perimenopause was awful for me. I swear I've been dealing with hormonal bullshit for over a decade now. The HRT has helped me, but I have a completely different body now. I used to be a professional dancer with very low body fat and no boobs. Now I'm curvy and even looking at a piece of bread makes my tits and belly grow. My gut issues have gotten much worse, and I went from feeling young to feeling like an old lady in less than a year. I had to retire from dance because of exhaustion issues.
@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
@Shanmonster@c.im
I understand because perimenopause completely changed my life. I was also with a partner who got angry at me because I was in so much physical abdominal pain, even before bleeding out for over a month, that I couldn't be physically intimate for 2 months. I had to deal with that emotional abuse, while trying to get doctors to take me seriously. It was pure living hell for me pre & post diagnosis with a partner who wasn't compassionate or understanding while being treated as a paranoid woman by doctors. I had to get therapy for those traumas after diagnosis.
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