The stigmas of VMS

--I hear from some of my elders is that you're too young to be going through that so soon. Like, I didn't start having those flashes well

until my mid 50s. [GENTLE MUSIC]

One of the stigmas that I face with my night sweats is people believing that I'm having them at 44 years old.

I hear from some of my elders is that, you're too young to be going through that so soon. Like, I didn't start having those flashes well

until my mid 50s. But, yes, I am experiencing night sweats like three times a week. With my mom, she started experiencing it

in her mid 50s, some of my great aunts, same thing. So it didn't happen in their 40s.

So everyone's looking at me, like, really? Are you sure? Right, right, so questioning if you

are having the experience that you're having. Yes. Wow. That, and that then--

it makes you kind of recoil and go, am I really having, you know-- Right. Am I-- is it all in my head?

Right? Right? Yes. I'm sure, Ronni, you probably have probably felt the same way. Tell me your experience.

What really bothers me is the people that don't have it who want to be the, oh, why aren't you putting this ointment on?

You know, and you just rub this on and you wear a patch. And why aren't you calling this person?

And, oh, you don't take this. And, you know, everybody wants to give you advice.

But until someone really understands my hot flashes, especially my night sweats and like

how Tasha's speaking, like I just so empathize with her because she's in her early 40s.

And I'm in my early 60s. And the same thing happened to me. And it came out of nowhere. And nobody that was as young as I was, was experiencing it,

and let alone experiencing it 18 years later. Wow. [AUDIO LOGO]