Whereas showing on “The Drew Barrymore Show” on Tuesday, Halle Berry and host Drew Barrymore revealed that they each are navigating the journey of perimenopause — with Berry sharing that her analysis was something however typical.
Sitting on Barrymore’s notorious sofa, Berry stated that her prognosis for perimenopause, which is when a girl’s physique makes the pure transition to menopause, got here 4 years in the past when she was 54. The “B.A.P.S.” star defined that her physician was assured in his analysis — however it took her abruptly.
“He’s doing the exam, and he’s looking up there — and he says, ‘Yup, I think I know what this is,’” Berry stated, including that the physician later informed her that she had a “really bad case of herpes.”
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Her now-boyfriend, Van Hunt, drove her to her appointment as a result of, as she recalled, her non-public space was “so swollen” that she “couldn’t put her legs together to drive.”
Berry then stated that, for the subsequent “72 hours,” the couple initiated the “blame game” to search out out who was the reason for the supposed sexually transmitted illness.
“A couple hours after that, my doctor called me and said, ‘You do not have herpes,’” she stated.
Relieved by the information, Berry was nonetheless left questioning why she was experiencing such discomfort in her nether areas. Frustratingly, her physician appeared clueless about her situation, so Berry did her “own research” to evaluate what was occurring to her physique.
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Her analysis led to a discovery: “dry vagina syndrome,” a symptom girls can have after they expertise perimenopause. The actor shared with Barrymore that she “had all the symptoms.”
“I realized, I’m 54 years old,” she stated. “I learned that perimenopause can start in your late 30s, even in [your] early 40s.”
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Berry went on to clarify that “no one had a serious conversation” together with her concerning the situation, and Barrymore chimed in, saying that “there’s no real age, rhyme or reason” for perimenopause earlier than each agreed that “everybody goes through it differently.”
The “Catwoman” actor has beforehand talked about her herpes misdiagnosis, saying in a Forbes article revealed final yr, “The doctor should have never made that diagnosis.”
