After sex, Halle Berry was in so much pain she couldn’t urinate. Her doctor suspected herpes, then admitted he had no idea what was wrong. “It takes me literally probably ten minutes to just empty my bladder because I can’t let it out.” “Now all these things are going through my mind like the love of my life, this great man, this great sex. Now, he gave me herpes. Like I thought.” “So yo, look, so you got herpes? ... I didn’t have herpes before I knew you, and now I have herpes.” “He says, ‘Halle, you don’t have herpes.’ ... ‘That’s what it looked like. But I don’t know how to explain this.’” “After about two or three weeks of my own individual investigation … what was happening to me was a symptom that many women suffer from in the perimenopause puzzle years.” “Someone, one of my doctors, should have already talked to me about being in perimenopause, right? ... I’ve got like six doctors. Not one of them had a conversation.” “When you are having sex, those walls are so thin, it cracks. ... The urine touches the walls of those cracks.”