Penny Pijnenberg

It was a few days, then it turned into irritation just out of no reason.

And then I noticed a pattern myself where I would have irritation just before I had my period.

Because at the time, I still had my period every four weeks.

So yeah, now I know it was perimenopause.

And I went to the GP.

Then I went to, after I think it took two years, then I went to see a gynecologist.

And again, I mean, this was, we're talking 2012, 13.

So I'd like to think now that people know more about it.

But it's quite sad.

And I actually at some point I even I have the letter still at home back from 2013, where the gynecologist actually writes in her report saying, patient thinks it's also linked with hormones.

Like you were crazy?

No, not crazy, but she just put it there as a fact because I'd mentioned it.

And I thought it was linked to my periods, which in a way it was, but it was hormones, perimenopause.

And I basically, it went on like that.

So were you given any hormones at that time?

No, no.

And they never really figured out what it was.

In the letter that went back to the GP, it says it could be lichen sclerosis.

Maybe it's a tumor.

Like they listed basically everything.