Honestly asking because I can't work it out anymore. Is it peri or is it burnout? Or both? Because I've been managing a team for four years and I've never once lost a word mid-sentence in a meeting. Now it happens at least twice a week and I just stand there going 'the... the thing... you know the document' while everyone waits. I'm 51, periods all over the place, so the peri bit is probably true. But I'm also exhausted in a way that feels more like I've been running on empty since 2020 than anything hormonal. What I've started doing, and I have no idea if it's helping yet, is actually eating a proper lunch with some protein in it instead of grabbing a cereal bar at my desk at 2pm. The 3pm blank-brain feeling was genuinely affecting my afternoon calls. A colleague mentioned it offhand and I thought fine, worth trying. Chicken, eggs, whatever's easy. A couple of weeks in and the afternoon crashes might be slightly less brutal? Hard to say. I'm seeing my GP next month and I want to be able to say something concrete rather than 'I feel a bit foggy'. So I've started writing down when it happens at work, what kind of slip it was, whether I'd slept badly. Building a picture. Not sure what she'll say but I'd rather go in with something than nothing. Does anyone else find it hard to separate the two? The burnout and the hormones feel so tangled up I can't tell where one ends. x