46 and I genuinely cannot work out if I'm burning out or if this is peri. Like, both? Neither? I've been in project management for fifteen years and I used to be the person who remembered everything. Every deadline, every stakeholder name, what was said in a meeting three weeks ago. Now I'm sitting in a Teams call yesterday and the word 'stakeholder' just... left. I said 'the, um, the people involved' and my director looked at me and I wanted to dissolve. I've started writing absolutely everything down in a notes doc during meetings, which helps practically but also makes me feel like I'm compensating for something that shouldn't need compensating for at 46. The afternoon is the worst. By about 2pm my brain is running on fumes. I've been trying to eat something with actual protein around that time instead of grabbing a biscuit and hoping for the best, and honestly the crashes feel slightly less brutal? Maybe. Hard to tell. But here's the thing I keep circling back to: I don't know what to ask my GP. Is there even a link between hormones and this kind of cognitive fog? Has anyone actually gone to their doctor and managed to have a useful conversation about it, or did you get the usual 'stress and tiredness are very common' brush-off? I want to go in with something concrete, not just 'I forgot a word once'. x