I had my pap smear, full blood works (for hormone check), and a full physical yesterday.
It's been over 20 years since my last pap...(lol...almost sounds like I'm in confession at my catholic church).

The changes I'm going through, (or thought I'm going through), seemed to all point to menopause. So, obviously it was time well overdue to have the full works done with hopes of finding the culprit to my issues.

Results to the physical is 100% healthy. Blood counts are normal. Blood pressure healthy.
My doc asks me if I'm taking any kind of birth control. I'm like...."Huh?".
She tells me that I can STILL become pregnant....

After all was said and done...going over all the lab results, she tells me that I should be taking some form of birth control because I haven't even begun pre-menopause yet.

She shakes my hand as she's telling me that I am now her most recent case study because I'm the oldest patient she's ever had who not only hasn't begun the pre-menopause phase, but who can also become pregnant. (I'll be 52 in August).

I told her that I don't want to be a lab rat/case study. That all I want is to find out why I'm going through all these up/down, loss of memory, disruptive sleep, loss of weight, no sex drive, depression...etc. (Here, I thought those were case signs of pre-menopause). She tells me all is good. All checked out.

For some reason, (even though the lab results all came back normal), I don't feel very secure with the results.....it's as though, maybe something has been overlooked.
(This doc yesterday only backed up what the first doc told me..about my fertility..so that wasn't a misread, or anything). What I'm concerned about, though, is what is causing all these symptoms I'm having. She said that I might be suffering from slight depression so she prescribes me something ....a "mild' antidepressant...says that should help with all those symptoms...and advises to quit smoking, of course, which I already knew.
(The results for the pap won't be in for another couple weeks. Keeping fingers crossed those are normal...since it's been so long since last exam...hard to say what's manifested in there...lmao).

Shangrala