6d ago
41 and genuinely not sure where I fit. The menopause forums feel like they're not for me yet and my period app keeps asking if I'm trying to conceive which, no, I just want to know why my cycle went from 28 days to 34 to 26 to 38 in the space of four months. I've started keeping a rough notes page on my phone. Not organised, just dates and whatever I noticed. Woke at 3am, felt like I was vibrating with anxiety. Really tired by 2pm. Skipped breakfast, felt awful by 11. That kind of thing. It's already shown me that the days I actually eat something proper in the morning are noticeably less awful by lunchtime, which sounds obvious but I genuinely hadn't connected it before. I want to see my GP but I keep talking myself out of it because I don't want to sit there and say "I'm a bit tired and my periods have gone weird" and have her look at me like I've wasted an appointment. Has anyone actually managed to ask about this without feeling like they're being dramatic? What did you say? x