9 Jun
46 and I keep waking up at almost exactly 3am. Every. Single. Night. Lie there for an hour or two with my brain just... whirring. Not about anything specific, that's the weird part. Just this low-level hum of dread and then suddenly I'm thinking about something I said at work in 2019. Is this peri? Is it just stress? I genuinely cannot tell and that's the bit that's doing my head in. My periods are still fairly regular so my GP is going to look at me like I've got two heads if I go in saying I think I'm perimenopausal. That's actually what I've been trying to figure out, what DO you say when your symptoms are basically "I feel a bit off and I can't sleep properly"? It sounds so nothing. But it doesn't feel like nothing. I've started going out for a walk after dinner, not far, just round the block a couple of times. Partly because I read something vague about it helping with sleep and partly because I needed to do something rather than just lie in bed dreading tomorrow night. Too early to say if it's doing anything but it gets me away from the sofa at least. If anyone has actually sat in front of their GP and managed to explain this kind of vague, slippery, hard-to-pin-down thing without being sent away with a leaflet about sleep hygiene, I would love to know how you did it x