Is being clumsy part of Perimenopause?

[Anxietyspiral]

I've had brain fog, tiredness/burnout, memory problems, feeling overwhelmed, aches and pains and anxiety for a while now. Basically everything but the hot flushes. All bloods and tests came back normal so haven't started on hrt yet as life is very stressful and hectic so could just be burnout or overwhelm.

Lately I've noticed that I've become incredibly clumsy and will drop things, crash into things, knock things over, etc. Also struggling with fine motor skills like removing notes from my wallet. I was trying to pay in Aldi last week and it took me almost a minute to extract the right notes 😂 I have been to the gp and got fobbed off but am thinking of going back and asking for hrt again. I'm still hesitant as without the hot flushes I'm not sure its actually peri and the doctor seems to think its not.

I'm on the go from morning to night juggling a million plates along with 2 dc one of which is disabled. Working full time with my own business plus studying so it literally never stops. I think anyone would be frazzled in my position.

Why not start HRT now? You'll find everything else will get better. The blood tests won't tell you anything - you have to go on symptoms. I've had to stop taking it - which I'm sad about!

Oh no, why? That's a shame if it was working for you.

Yeah, I think I will go back. Just now I found an old bag of forgotten potatoes in the back of the cupboard. Pulled it out and it had liquefied and the juice dripped all into the switch of my hoover 😭 it's like everything that could go wrong, goes massively fucking wrong and sets off a chain reaction of disasters.

Yes to the clumsiness. You don’t need to have hot flushes to confirm you are in perimenopause so go back - it’s been brilliant at sorting most of my odd symptoms

Can I suggest having your vit D checked? It isn't done as part of a standard blood test but that was one of my main symptoms, along with aches and pains (at one point even the soles of my feet ached as I got out of bed) and my vit D was through the floor. I fell over (very very publicly) and even dropped a kettle on my foot.

I’d get that checked. My friend had breast cancer that had spread to her brain and initially her only symptom was that she went swimming and found she was regularly veering to the right when trying to swim in a straight line and crashing into other swimmers. These are all classic neurological symptoms though that I wouldn’t primarily connect to perimenopause.

I have cancer (not brain) and other than aches and pains, I had those symptoms for probably a year before my cancer was discovered.

Sorry to hear that 😔

I was thoroughly checked for gynecological cancer, hysteroscopy, scans, blood tests, etc as I said my cycle had changed.

Yes, this is definitely me. Anything that could go wrong does. I was also clumsy during puberty, especially just before a period. I once threw one of my mum’s new plates out of the back door onto the patio!