Halle Berry’s Doctor Misdiagnosed Her With the ‘Worst Case of Herpes’ Due to Perimenopause Symptom

[hewontgo]

Halle Berry is opening up about experiencing a herpes scare that was actually a case of perimenopause. https://t.co/NASr8hXJUn
- Us Weekly (@usweekly) March 26, 2024

Halle Berry, 57, is opening up about experiencing a herpes scare that was actually a case of perimenopause.

"First of all, my ego told me that I was going to skip [perimenopause] - I

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[theactualworst]

I’m only mid 30s and going through this and it fucking suuucks. I’ve always had fucked up hormones.

[belle_chouette]

Does HRT help with this at all? :\

[theactualworst]

I started the combo pill when I was 16 and stayed on it. Then last year I started having issues with estrogen and mini strokes so I had to stop cold turkey. That’s what started giving me perimenopause symptoms. I'm hoping things even out but I can’t take any hormones right now due to the stroke risk. I’m going to start spironolactone though which should help some.

[steffi_333]

Same. I’m 37 and pretty sure I’m perimenopausal. I had 17 periods last year and my cycles were all over the place. Plus other symptoms that line up, including night sweats which really suck. I have a gynaecologist referral next month so I’m hoping they can shed some light. Even if they do confirm it there’s not a lot they can do though. I had to stop taking the combination pill a few years ago because I was getting migraines and it made me a stroke risk.

[violue]

something else to look forward to :|

[goldenhera]

The brackets have to be wrong here because you can't skip perimenopause.

[automaticpeople]

Google says “although perimenopause is a normal part of aging, some women don't experience the symptoms and move straight into menopause”, so maybe that’s what she meant?

[ty]

Yeah, I bet if more women knew there is a "peri-" they would know they are in it.

[goldenhera]

Exactly. I think many women chalk the changes they experience in their 30s and 40s as a continuation of how menstruation changes over time and not perimenopause.

Also, from the set up I thought she was referring to getting an STD. Like, she was going to just never have one because she and her partner practiced safe sex.

[britty_stitches]

We really have to deal with so fucking much with our bodies and its so infuriating that none of these issues have proper treatments or cures and arent even taken seriously by men who get paid to be "experts" on our conditions. I will never accept a male gynecologist or specialist ever and Im so sorry for women who havent had a choice in the matter or the resources to obtain a woman doctor. I know sometimes the women aint shit either but fuck. Women should ALWAYS have a choice on whether or not their doctor is a man or woman.

[anterrabre]

After my experience I just want a good doctor, period. Sometimes women gyno can be on bullshit too.

[Spoiler (click to open)] I was having severe problems with vulva itching and went to a female doctor who like Halle's doctor was convinced I had herpes. The fact that I'm older, been in a monogamous relationship for the past 20-something years, and we were in a damn pandemic and working from home went right over her head and she insisted on testing me for various STDs, and she kinda insinuated that either myself or my partner was stepping out? It was wildly offensive, and I really got the feeling that if I were White she would not have jumped to those conclusions. About a week latr I got my test results, which of course was negative for everything but the itch was still there so I went to another gyno that turned out to be a White dude and I was like "Oh, fuck....here we go." He sat me down, asked a lot of questions that the first doctor didn't bother to ask, examined me, and gently explained that the bumps on my vulva was actually scarring from my nails (

[januarysix]

[Spoiler (click to open)] scarring from your nails?

[anterrabre]

Not to get graphic, but I was REALLY digging in, to the point of drawing blood sometimes, lol.

[glitterslugs]

I got a herpes like sores and ulcers on my vagina sometime last year, they cleared in about a week. It wasn’t herpes and the doctors had no idea what happened but said maybe an autoimmune thing, so this is interesting tbh. Human bodies are strange

[for_serious13]

Do you ever get them under your breasts or armpits? It might have been a hydradenitis suppurativa? Or zits there?

[glitterslugs]

Interesting never heard of this! No never on armpits, they were more blister-like than pimple like (no pus) which was why i thought it was herpes that i had dormant and never realised!

[for_serious13]

I have HS, and I get big cysts/blisters under my breasts and on my vagina, sometimes on my thighs too, and the ones on my vagine started in my 20’s/30’s. I also have pcos and they can be comorbid

It might not be, and I would think the same as you but if they pop up again maybe see your dermatologist?