10 Jun
50, had a hysterectomy with oophorectomy in March and honestly the timeline thing is messing with my head more than I expected. Everyone talks about perimenopause like it's this slow creep over years and I just. didn't get that. Tuesday I was fine, Friday I was a different person. Hot flashes starting two days post-op, mood stuff by week three. My OB keeps referencing the standard menopause literature and I sit there nodding but none of it maps onto what actually happened to me. I've been putting together a list of questions before my follow-up next month because last time I walked out with half my thoughts still in my head. Things like: can we talk specifically about surgical menopause as its own thing, not just menopause-adjacent. What should my timeline for symptoms actually look like given HOW this started. What's the difference between what I might feel at six months versus two years out. Also weirdly the thing that's helped me feel most human some days is just eating something real. Scrambled eggs, soup, toast. Nothing complicated. My appetite has been all over the place since surgery and I kept skipping meals which made everything worse. Not a cure, obviously. Just. eggs helped. Anyone else feel like they aged into a conversation that was already halfway over and nobody left you the beginning?