Anonymous
Post 12/05/2024 21:39     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:About 6 weeks ago I started slurring my speech at the start of sentences. It's super annoying. It happens a few times each day- I can't quite get the words out properly.


Word slurring can be caused by a stroke stroke and is not related to menopause brain fog. Please get yourself checked out by a doctor.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 22:40     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
I am 50 and a hear ago I had this so bad I freaked out and had a neuro work up. Nothing was found so I calmed down and now I basically live with it. Sometimes it is better and other times it is worse.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 13:15     Subject: Re:Decline in verbal skills?
49 year old lawyer here. I have a lot of this type of thing lately. I want to say soup, but stew is also in my brain, and I say stoup. Or I refer to my wedding ring and my redding wing. It is BAD some days.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 13:13     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My vocabulary is shot and I lose my train of thought when speaking. Not great when you are a trial lawyer. I thought it was early onset of dementia, but a psychiatrist said its perimenopause. Did this happen to you, and if so, did your ability to speak in complete sentences return after you made the transition? This is humiliating.


This is not normal. You should really seek a second opinion vs trusting 1 dr and an internet message board. It really does sound like EOD, which needs treatment right away to at least buy you a little more time.


Then, I guess I have dementia, too.

And everyone else on this thread. It is normal PP.
The thing that is most frustrating is that I used to be extremely articulate - vocabulary was my thing. Now I find myself looking for alternate ways to describe something when the perfect word I am reaching for eludes me.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 13:02     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:HRT


Yes this exactly. Try to get testosterone, it’s helped me feel sharper.


+1

Testosterone specifically helped me with this.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 23:28     Subject: Re:Decline in verbal skills?
I am self-aware when this happens to me, and I trace this back to anxiety. If I am under duress I forget words, this didn't used to happen until peri-menopause, it's just there is either more anxiety now or it's of a different type, or perimenopausal brain cannot deal with both at the same time.
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 19:55     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Also a lawyer / lobbyist here - i am 48 and have brain fog - use the time searching for a word to pause - helps with public speaking - there are many ways to say the same thing if one word eludes me - when i was younger i spoke too fast. Lean in, ladies, to our peri dementia i say.
Anonymous
Post 11/22/2024 04:18     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Has HRT helped anyone experiencing this? I am 45 and have the same symptoms.


Yes. Estrogen +progesterone helped, but testosterone was the game-changer for me for mental sharpness.

If you’re having difficulty finding a provider who will prescribe T, search here: isshwsh.org
International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.


Thanks!


Also on same hrt but for me i felt that oral
pregnanolone helped the most.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2024 17:31     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
I have terrible brain fog and attention deficit with menopause and anxious about it because I have a family history of Alzheimer’s on both sides. Almost all the women in my family had Alzheimer’s in their 70s and lived a long time with the illness with awful quality of life.
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2024 11:16     Subject: Re:Decline in verbal skills?
OP here: I made it. I argued a case and handled it really well. Language was at about 85 percent of what it was, pre-perimenopause, but I nailed the substance and my processing speed was the same (fast).

I'm almost in menopause, so for those of you who are struggling, I think the language might start coming back once you transition.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2024 09:26     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Lisa Mosconi MD at Weill Cornell has done groundbreaking work on the brain and the menopause transition.

Her recently published book is called The Menopause Brain. I highly recommend it.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2024 08:30     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:Another lawyer here commiserating on the brain fog. I am trying to address the insomnia but after 2 or so weeks of sleeping well for the first time in a while, I have realized that my brain fog is hormonal.

It is embarrassing to feel like a dotty old lady.


Agree completely. When I brought this up at my annual, I feel like my concerns were dismissed.

Why are there so few articles on this when I google it? Why so little research, and no solid therapies or a drug to cure this specific symptom?
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2024 12:20     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Another lawyer here commiserating on the brain fog. I am trying to address the insomnia but after 2 or so weeks of sleeping well for the first time in a while, I have realized that my brain fog is hormonal.

It is embarrassing to feel like a dotty old lady.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2024 11:30     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Has HRT helped anyone experiencing this? I am 45 and have the same symptoms.


Yes. Estrogen +progesterone helped, but testosterone was the game-changer for me for mental sharpness.

If you’re having difficulty finding a provider who will prescribe T, search here: isshwsh.org
International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.


Thanks!
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2024 07:47     Subject: Decline in verbal skills?
Anonymous wrote:Has HRT helped anyone experiencing this? I am 45 and have the same symptoms.


Yes. Estrogen +progesterone helped, but testosterone was the game-changer for me for mental sharpness.

If you’re having difficulty finding a provider who will prescribe T, search here: isshwsh.org
International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health.