Nobody warned me. That is the thing I keep coming back to. I am 47 and my cycles have been doing something completely different for about eighteen months and I genuinely thought I was just stressed or run down or not eating properly or all three at once. They are shorter now, sometimes 24 days, sometimes 31, one time 19 which properly scared me. My GP ran bloods and said everything was "within normal range" and that was sort of... it. No follow-up. No mention of perimenopause. I had to google my way here at half eleven on a Wednesday. I started keeping a rough note on my phone, just cycle dates and how I feel the week before, because I realised I had no actual evidence when I tried to describe it to anyone. The sleep stuff is new as well. I wake up at about 3am and cannot get back off, and I have noticed that if I have had coffee after two o'clock it is worse. Not revolutionary information but I had not connected it before. The breakfast thing sounds daft but I started eating something proper before I leave the house and I feel less like I am running on fumes by ten. Whether that is related to any of this I have no idea. I want to go back to the GP with something concrete. Like, here are my cycle dates for the last year, here is what changed, here is what is different compared to two years ago. Because "I feel a bit off" clearly got me nowhere x