Random-Ass Symptom Of The Month: My Aching Hips!

Waking up in excruciating pain was never on my bingo card.

It started as a twinge—that hitch-in-your-giddyup one experiences now and then as we get older. I had no reason to believe it was connected to going through menopause. But then it escalated: it was hard to sleep. Lying down on my side was painful and I didn’t know why. I was like, should I get a new mattress? Am I imagining all of this? I could not make sense of it.

It also impacted my love life. You try lying spread-eagle in the missionary position in the throes of passion when all of a sudden you get a charlie horse in your hip. The scream I let out should’ve been in ecstasy, but instead was all about stopping the shooting pain on my right side. Ugh.