11 Jun
53 and genuinely trying to work out whether what's happening to my brain is perimenopause or just... years of working too hard. Because how do you even tell the difference? I used to be the person who remembered everything. Client names, project details, what was said in a meeting six months ago. Now I'm sitting in a Teams call yesterday and the word 'procurement' just vanished. Gone. I said 'the, um, buying process people' and my manager definitely noticed. So I've started this slightly embarrassing experiment with my lunch. I kept reading that protein at midday might help with the afternoon fog, and honestly at this point I'll try anything that doesn't require a prescription. For three weeks I've been bringing actual proper lunches instead of grabbing a sad sandwich and eating it at my desk while answering emails. Eggs, chicken, that kind of thing. I'm not entirely sure it's doing anything yet but I haven't faceplanted quite as badly at 3pm this week, so. The thing I actually want to know, and I'm hoping someone here has thought about this: when you went to your GP about brain fog, how did you describe it? I want to go in with something more useful than 'I feel thick'. I've been jotting down specific moments at work, the word-finding stuff, forgetting what I was about to say mid-sentence, losing the thread of conversations. Is that the kind of thing that's worth mentioning in terms of hormones, or do GPs just tell you to sleep more and reduce stress? Because I've had that conversation before and I cannot cope with having it again.