When I met up with my male doctor in the early part of 2023 I was prepared to not listen to him and dismiss him because he was a man.
My error. He was one of the most understanding doctors I have ever come across. From just talking for a little while he understood my fears of entering the menopause and, not that I was happy about this, diagnosed peri-menopause.
He talked me through what I was feeling and what might happen and he's been the best guidance I have ever had.
He's not there any more. He's moved on and I don't have anyone in my local surgery that I trust to talk about with what is going on with me.
The aches and pains are ridiculous. I mean, they don't start right away but they appear. If you don't move for a little while your hips scream.
Way, way before that though are the sweats. I suppose we've all had some sweat for some reason. Too hot. Illness. Too much drink.
Nothing is like the menopause sweats.
This is waking up in the night with water running off your body into your sheets. And when you touch those sheets, you aren't sleeping in them again that night. They are soaked. You either pull them off and replace them or sleep on the mattress without them, or you sleep elsewhere for the rest of the night when all you want to do is sleep in your own bed.
I have woken in the night and got up and the water is running down my body, down my legs. My shorts and tee-shirt soaked. I only sleep in shorts and tee-shirts or vest tops now, even in the winter, as I just soak through them every night and they are easier to wash.
It could be minus ten outside, that doesn't affect these sweats. These are sweats that I wake up in draining water and it's also draining off my head. My hair is like a perm with the amount of water soaked up in it.
I do get some relief.
When I can, I go to bed early in the evening and I sleep. So, bed at six pm is now normal for me. I sleep to about nine or ten and I go back to sleep after and sometimes, just once now and then, the sweats avoid me. When they don't I have at least had some decent sleep before going to sleep when the sweats hit.
I don't know why they don't hit me earlier in the evening, I only know that they don't and I love going to bed and getting a good sleep then.
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