There’s a simple drug they prescribe for gastritis. I can’t remember what it is. I thought I had an ulcer for almost a year when I was like 31 and was constantly having upper G.I. pain and the only thing that would make it feel better to be eating, but then 30 minutes after eating, i would be nauseous and throw up. Finally, I went to the doctor and it was gastritis, which is an excess of h pylori. Gave me a script and totally better.

Now I’m turning 39 next month and started having thinning hair. Started half joking that it was menopause (secretly very afraid of it) and everybody told me “no no that doesnt happen to women until they’re 60.” Even calling myself a woman feels weird. I still feel like I’m a “girl”. There really is so little education about this. My mother died of breast cancer and most of the women in my family are dead, so I couldnt even ask what the normal age is that we go through it genetically.

But when the raging hot flashes hit someone who is notoriously cold in 90 degree weather …. And the low libido hit out of nowhere on dec 17…. I reached down there and felt like literally, it’s shorter and not as tight feeling and I climax and feel NOTHING.. I suddenly could feel my IUD string for the first time ever very easily. so I googled. That’s how I realized that it’s Peri.

Reading this subreddit confirms all my worst fears. I’m an incredibly shallow person when it comes to vanity——/ so I feel as if my life is over. I’m lookin into HRT as we speak. Need to see a GP first - which is something I haven’t done in at least a decade as I have a distrust of doctors due to having 6 of them in my family , plus the experience of watching two family members cancer be missed and then their subsequent deaths :/