Hi Pearl, I’m new here too and am having a similar experience. I’m also 55, last period four years ago, and mostly ‘sailed through’ it all. It was in the years after all that, and was a slow decline rather than sudden, but I too now have the dryness and zero libido. I am using vagifem tablets and ovestin cream, which do help. I started on the Everol 50 patch in October which has been best of all and made me feel moisturised from the inside out, which is great. It hasn’t made much difference to libido in my case but it’s early days.