Can I ask something that's been bothering me for months? How do you actually tell the difference between perimenopause brain fog and just... burning out at work? I'm 46, project manager, two teenagers, commute three days a week. I have genuinely lost track of how many times I've sat in a meeting this year and gone completely blank mid-sentence. Not nervous blank. Just. Gone. The word is not there. I can see the concept, I know what I mean, and the word has simply left the building. My line manager is lovely and hasn't said anything but I can feel myself compensating constantly. I write everything down now, obsessively, in a little notebook I take everywhere like some kind of anxious Victorian clerk. It helps. Sort of. But I don't know if I'm managing a hormone thing or just exhausted or both and I can't work out which problem I'm actually trying to solve. I've got a GP appointment in three weeks and I want to go in with something useful to say rather than just 'I feel a bit dim lately'. Has anyone gone through this with their doctor? What did you actually say to make them take the cognitive stuff seriously? Every article I read talks about hot flushes and sleep but this, the sharpness thing, feels like the bit that's actually changing my life. Also separately and I realise this is a tangent but does anyone else get absolutely floored around 3pm? Like a wall. I've started bringing nuts and things to try and hold myself together through the afternoon but I feel a bit mad doing it. x