Halle Berry: Why Women Are Being Failed at Menopause
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I wake up in the morning and I cannot go to the bathroom. I'm sitting there and I just can't go. It's like, ugh, it's the most excruciating pain I've ever felt. So the first thing, of course, you do, you go to the doctor. He said, well, this is the worst case of herpes I think I've seen.
So my guy Van is downstairs in the car because he had driven me to the doctor's office. I get in the car and I'm looking at him and I'm like, hey, so uh you got herpes? So then an hour later my doctor calls me and says, no, you do not have herpes. I said, then what is it? And he said, I don't know.
And he hung up the phone. I realized that what I was suffering from was dry vagina syndrome because in perimenopause, over 50% of women get dry everything, dry eyes, dry mouth, and dry vagina. And all of those were dry on me. Nobody had ever mentioned the word menopause. I was so ignorant, Mark, I thought
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