15 Jun
Okay so I had my surgery in March and nobody prepared me for the fact that menopause would just... arrive. Like, overnight. I didn't get a slow build, no gradual changes, no years of perimenopause to adjust. I went to sleep one person and woke up someone who sweats through her sheets and cries at dog food commercials. And now every time I try to find info or connect with other women it's all about the slow fade into menopause and I'm sitting here like... that is not my story at all. I went from zero to full menopause in about 48 hours. It's disorienting in a way I don't have good words for yet. I have a specialist follow-up in two weeks and I've been writing down questions because I know I'll blank the second I sit down in that office. Mostly around what to expect given my specific surgery timeline, whether certain symptoms are normal at this stage of recovery, stuff like that. If anyone has navigated a post-surgical follow-up and has questions they wish they'd asked, I would genuinely love to hear them. Also on a completely different note, my appetite has been so weird since surgery. Everything sounds like too much. The only things that have felt okay are soft scrambled eggs and soup. Just noting that in case anyone else is in early recovery and wondering if that's normal.