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Menopause at 23. I'm halfway done!

My alarm goes off and I wake up feeling like I just finished a 5 mile run. My t-shirt is wet and yesterday's shower seems like it was a week ago. Night sweats are a consistent part of the side effects medically induced menopause that my medicine Lupron has given me, so I've learned to roll out of bed, take a cold shower, and move on with my day. I suppose that might gross some of you out. I suppose you might think I'm sharing a little too much on social media. But for the past three months and for the next three months, this is my life. I can't do anything to change it, so I'm not ashamed. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, click here to read about it.) Someone once said, "From the outside looking in you can't understand it, and from the inside looking out you can't explain it." I feel like that pretty much sums up my life these days. On the worst days, I wake up feeling like I have the flu. It's the exhausted, headac