52 and I have my GP appointment on Thursday and I am absolutely dreading walking in there and going blank. Every single time. I sit down and she asks how I've been and my brain just... empties. I come out having mentioned about 30% of what I actually wanted to say and then spend the drive home remembering the rest. So this week I've been writing things down as they happen. Woke at 3am Tuesday, heart going, couldn't get back off until nearly 5. Wrote it down. Wednesday felt fine actually. Thursday that low-level dread was back before I'd even got out of bed, no reason, nothing had happened. Wrote it down. I've got almost a week of it now and I'm going to print it out and just hand it to her if I have to. I've also written my actual questions because I know I'll forget those too. Mainly around whether the sleep stuff could be hormonal and whether HRT might help with that specifically, because it's the sleep that's wrecking everything else. The anxiety, the brain fog at work, all of it. Has anyone done this, just handed over a written list? Did the GP take it seriously or did it feel a bit odd? Bit nervous she'll think I'm being dramatic. x