Something I wish someone had told me earlier: write down the symptoms you're too embarrassed to say out loud, before you get in that room. I spent two appointments skirting around the dryness and the fact that intimacy has just... stopped feeling like something I want. Kept waiting for the GP to ask the right question. She didn't. I left both times without mentioning it. This time I wrote it down. Actual words on a list. Dryness, discomfort, the UTI feelings that aren't UTIs, the bit about my husband and how distant I feel about all of it. Just seeing it written made it feel less shameful somehow. I'm going to hand the list over if I lose my nerve. That's my plan. If anyone else is putting off saying this stuff, you're not alone x