7d ago
Right so I've decided to do a slightly embarrassing experiment and actually write things down instead of just hoping I'll remember. The thing is, I've been putting off talking to my GP about the dryness for about two years. Two years. I keep getting to the appointment and then mentioning my blood pressure or my knee or literally anything else, and the actual thing I went in for stays in my head unsaid. I came out last time having discussed my cholesterol for fifteen minutes and said nothing at all about what's actually affecting my life every single day. So this week I'm trying something different. I've started a very basic notes document on my phone. Just a few lines. When it bothers me, how much, whether it's affecting things with my husband (it is, and that's a whole other thing I haven't found the words for yet). I'm also writing down what I actually want to say to the GP so I can just read it off the screen if I have to. I read somewhere that you can do that and I think for me that might be the only way it happens. I'm also trying a lubricant I found mentioned in a thread here last week. Not going to make any claims about it, just logging that I'm using it and whether I notice anything. Early days. None of this is glamorous. Writing down intimate symptoms on my phone at 59 while my husband watches the news in the other room is not how I imagined this decade going. But I'm so tired of not saying anything and just quietly managing. I want to actually go to that appointment and say the real thing this time. If anyone else is doing a similar kind of notes thing before seeing their GP I'd love to know how you approached it x