Just wondering if anyone else is in my position.
I'm 46 had symptoms for about 3 years, on HRT for just over 1.5 yrs. Always used the pill as contraception. They also suspected I had PCOS but was told we'd double check when I wanted to have a baby, as I never did, we never did.
When I started HRT I was offered the Mirena coil as an option - it was awful. I had to get it taken out. My partner (56) initially agreed to consider a vasectomy but then cancelled the appointment as he's currently waiting for three different other surgeries. I got condoms but he won't use them. As a compromise we don't usually have full sex. Very rarely (maybe once a month), and he doesn't finish inside me.
I love my partner but I am not happy about this situation and constantly worry about getting pregnant. I have a chronic illness - the medication for this would put any baby at high risk of abnormalities. I'd also not want any baby to have what I do - it's made my life a misery and it is genetic - so I do not want to get pregnant.
Every time we have any kind of sex I am worried and stressed out that I may have manged to get pregnant. My partner just says not to worry and he's looked into the risk, that it's so unlikely as he's older too that I'm overreacting. It's all exhausting me. Has anyone else experienced this?