Perimenopause and working

[Anonymous]

How are you all dealing with perimenopause symptoms while keeping and excelling at professional jobs?

I wake up at 3 am and cannot go back to sleep. I have brain fog and I can’t seem to form coherent sentences.

How am I supposed to succeed at work??

[Anonymous]

Was in similar situation and made urgent care appt at obgyn and started HRT.

[Anonymous]

I would also post this in perimenopause forum. And yes sleep difficulty and brain fog experienced but they can advise what to take/do

[Anonymous]

HRT, testoterone and wine.

[Anonymous]

I don’t worry too much about succeeding.

[Anonymous]

My SSRI has helped a ton with sleep and anxiety that was making it very hard to focus.

[Anonymous]

Coffee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t worry too much about succeeding.

I don't know if you're joking or not but I think most people understand what's happening with women in their 40s and 50s and give them grace or I hope so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was in similar situation and made urgent care appt at obgyn and started HRT.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t worry too much about succeeding.

I don't know if you're joking or not but I think most people understand what's happening with women in their 40s and 50s and give them grace or I hope so.

This would be ideal but I’m not sure it happens regularly in the real world. On top of that, with all this going on, I am now working with childless women young enough to be my daughter. These women are also kicking my butt when it comes to performance. I’m barely hanging on.

It’s really depressing and I’m still 12 years away from retirement so I’m looking forward to this for more than a decade more.

And I’m on HRT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t worry too much about succeeding.

I was going to post — excelling?

[Anonymous]

I had to get on HRT because I could not do math equations that were part of my daily work.

The HRT really helped my brain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t worry too much about succeeding.

I don't know if you're joking or not but I think most people understand what's happening with women in their 40s and 50s and give them grace or I hope so.

Are you joking? They absolutely do not.

[Anonymous]

My symptom has been profusely sweating. Like, the tiniest exertion causes heavy, smelly sweating. I talked to the gyn about HRT and other options and on 1/31 started generic Paxil which is supposed to, as a side effect, help with sweating. Still waiting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t worry too much about succeeding.

I don't know if you're joking or not but I think most people understand what's happening with women in their 40s and 50s and give them grace or I hope so.

No, that’s not my experience. But on the other hand, the work place is full of mediocre and sub mediocre people of all ages. I just need to be at least on par with them.