39 and I genuinely don't know how to describe this to a GP without sounding like I've just googled 'am I anxious' and convinced myself. It's not like there's a reason for it. Nothing bad is happening. Work is fine, kids are fine, life is fine. And yet I wake up at 3am with my heart doing something weird and this low-level dread that has absolutely no address. Like it arrived from nowhere and just... sat down in my chest. Daytime too. I'll be making pasta or watching something completely normal and suddenly feel this creeping unease. No trigger. No story attached to it. Just the feeling, on its own. I've started writing things down this week. Not properly, just notes on my phone, sleep times, when the anxiety peaks, what I ate, whether I had wine. I want to see if there's a pattern because my brain is definitely not keeping track of anything reliably right now. I'm 39 and I'm not sure peri is even on the table yet but someone in another thread mentioned that anxiety with no obvious cause was one of their first signs and I've been thinking about it ever since. If I get a GP appointment I want to ask about HRT specifically in relation to sleep and this weird anxiety. Not the hot flushes (I do have those a bit but they're not the main thing). I just don't want to go in and forget everything and come out with 'have you tried mindfulness' again. x