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Still figuring out the change. 50, Birmingham. Grateful for the plain talk here x

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Just popping back to say thank you, especially Lorna. I read all of these with a cup of tea and had a little cry, in a good way. This community is such a relief sometimes.

The oestrogen and inflammation connection is well documented. Worth mentioning to your GP that the joint symptoms follow the same timeline as your cycle changes. That framing helped me get taken more seriously rather than being sent off for separate investigations. x

This is exactly it. Not laziness. Capacity gone. I started doing the same thing about eighteen months ago and the labelled containers felt like defeat at first. They don't anymore. The decision fatigue at the end of a brain fog day is real and removing even one small choice helps. x