12 Jun
Okay so I finished my last treatment in September and by October I was having hot flashes so bad I was sleeping on a towel. I'm 39. I didn't even know what was happening for the first two weeks, I genuinely thought something had gone wrong with the surgery. Nobody sat me down and said hey, this is going to feel like a switch got flipped. There was no gradual. No perimenopause runway. Just. Done. I've started keeping notes on my phone because my follow-up is next month and I don't want to walk in there and blank on everything the way I always do. So far I have: when the flashes hit, how long they last, whether I slept or didn't, and what my mood was doing. Also what I ate because weirdly food has mattered more than I expected. Some days my appetite is completely gone and I've been making myself eat soft things, eggs mostly, soup, anything that doesn't feel like a project. I just want to find other people who had it happen fast like this. The regular menopause content doesn't quite fit. I'm not in a slow transition, I got dropped off a cliff, and I need different language for that.