Fatigue and brain fog - constant, cyclical or sporadic?

[mamakoukla]

Hi. I am late 40s and have been experiencing horrible fatigue to the point of struggling to think and to remember words. I know I am waking up during the night, and wake up feeling the worse for having slept. Some days I’m so tired I stop to rest; I struggle to wake up, literally off balance on my feet, and cannot manage to watch an hour long episode on tv at night. It’s affecting my ability to live a normal life, to engage in conversation.

I am going to the dr but am curious - for those of you who did experience fatigue, insomnia, brain fog during peri- and menopause, what was it like? How hard was it to manage? Was it constant, or cyclical? What helped?

Thank you 💐

HRT sorted this out for me. Within a month I was sleeping properly. Six weeks and the brain fog, forgetting words, anxiety and exhaustion lifted.

Worth getting a full medical check up and bloods done to rule anything else though, obviously,

If you are being off balance then please get your B12 and iron levels checked out. Both can cause this as well as brain fog and exhaustion.

Thank you for the replies! Yes, planning to request full blood work plus B12, ferritin (although I take a daily B12; have been low in the past and don’t want to go back there).

I’n curious - was your fatigue constant? Or like suddenly walking into a wall?

Not looking forward to my appointment and the main symptom of too tired.

Cyclical. All peri symptoms for me have come and gone like this - for me. But everyone is different

I’n curious - was your fatigue constant? Or like suddenly walking into a wall?

Both really. The fatigue would be a level 8 out of 10 for most of the day then BAM! I could hardly string a sentence together as I was that tired. I returned to toddlerhood and used basic words and pointing and tbh I felt like it was the start of dementia it was that bad. It was a mix of low iron, b12, folic acid and menopause so not one thing. Your loss of balance/stumbling is more likely to be the vitamins/iron as that is one of the main symptoms.