43 and genuinely not sure where I fit. The period apps all talk to me like I'm 27 and trying to conceive, and the menopause forums feel like they're for my mum. So I've just been... hovering. Reading. Not posting. But my cycles have been weird for about eight months now. Used to be bang on 28 days, now it's anywhere from 24 to 35 and my GP basically shrugged and said it was probably stress. Maybe it is. I have a full-time job and two kids under ten and a house that is actively falling apart so yes, stress, sure, fine. What I've started doing, mostly because I couldn't sleep at 2am and needed to feel like I was doing something, is writing down when my period starts, how long, and roughly how I felt that week. Also started noticing that the weeks I drink a lot of coffee I feel genuinely awful by Thursday. Not a conclusion, just a thing I noticed. Dinners this week were absolute chaos, by the way. Two nights of pasta with whatever was in the fridge. Zero apologies. I think I want to go back to the GP but I don't know how to say "my cycles changed" without it sounding like nothing. Does anyone have a way of framing it that doesn't make you sound dramatic? x