Multi-tasking after menopause

[Kangaroobrain]

Before menopause (I'm mid fifties) I was juggling a job, extra freelance work, three teenage kids, a house and a dog. DH is great in many ways - we've always split housework 50/50 - but he's hopeless at organisation (he leaves everything to the last minute which stresses me out), so it's usually down to me.

These days it's just me and DH at home and I'm still working P/T and freelance, but now I'm struggling to keep one task in my head at a time! I'm currently really angry with myself for forgetting something really important that I should have dealt with today, before the Bank Holiday weekend. To be fair, we're going on holiday after that so I have had extra things to think about, but I despair at my memory nowadays. Even my usual 'to do' list system doesn't seem to be working, I'm so distractible.

Can anyone reassure me this gets better? 😬

Oh - didn't mean to include AIBU voting, but not sure how you turn it off?

Are you on HRT, because a lot of women find it helps with concentration and memory.

I've never really had severe flushes or anything so I didn't bother pursuing that, but my sister asked about it and her GP wouldn't recommend due to our family history of breast cancer.

There are tips and tricks for people with distractibility issues. Maybe it’s just a matter of finding a new way of doing things.

Symptoms of perimenopause aren't just hot flushes - I never had them either. But there's a huge list of symptoms that it would be worth you looking at, even if you couldn't get HRT. For me, I had anxiety (that I didn't even recognise I had until it stopped), heart palpitations, vertigo. Honestly the list is huge and memory problems, inability to concentrate is on there!