Please tell me your embarrassing menopause stories.

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I am 54 and always thought ' there's no way I'm gonna let a natural life cycle affect me' well...for that last few weeks I have been waking up sweating, literally soaked in sweat. I need a fan on to prevent this now (poor DP has to put up with fan noise)
Last week I lost my keys while out shopping ( never done this before) I was flustered and having hot flushes and stood by my car that I couldn't get in to to have a cigarette, forgot the filters so it was disgusting and I threw it on the floor...one of those jobs worth people come and fined me 150 quid. ( thought he was a security guard telling me he found my keys, but no ...

Went to a well known supermarket yesterday what i had been to before and happily weed in before... but this time I walked in and was hit by the stench of piss, I then saw three things that I worked out were mens urinals! I QUICKLY walked out and found the toilet with the skirt rather than the trousers thank gawd. Another problem is urgency.

And now today, went to a regular place for my daughters birthday, I go in to the right toilets and no water is coming out of the tap, so my hands are full of soap, I tell the manager there's no water coming from the tap in women's toilets., she goes and checks it out, she then comes over to me and says ' do you realise the water tap needs to be pressed '
Seriously, tell me it doesn't get worse!

Ok - I’m sending other issues at play.

all the best

When perimenopausal I went through a stage of putting things in the freezer! Keys, tights, all sorts.

I accidentally locked my husband in his garden office as I said good bye. Had to get a neighbour to rescue him 😜

I opened a tin of tuna for lunch and then made a chicken sandwich.

everyday I seem to forget something or do engine mental

Oh I haven't done that yet 😅

I agree, that's harsh. There should be on the spot fines of £150 for not clearing up dog shit. That's far more harmful than a fag butt.

I can’t remember words and often I get to the middle of a sentence and just can’t be bothered to try and style it out with other words. I just let it hang and say fuck it.

It‘s a lot better since i started hrt 6 months ago. In fact it’s the only symptom left. I was having horrendous nightly hot flushes and sweats (I used to put a cold wet facecloth on the back of my neck to help (top tip!). Get thee to the GP or gynaecologist.

BTW, there are a couple of real strange ones on this thread. I’m fairly sure that the OP was mentioning the littering as a symptom (like stress and dropping cig) not admitting to being a deliberate littering arsehole.

I get the brain fog. Like MaggieBsBoat says, I completely forget common words like I'll get half way and just can't remember the word then I give up on the whole sentence!
I'm 54 and I do get some night sweating but nothing compared to the aching. I tried various HRT regimes for a year or so but none of it helped and when they increased the dose it actually got alot worse. So I came off it and find I can cope with it better. Weird!

Most embarrassing menopause story would be when I bent over to pick something up at work and accidentally let rip!! Nobody was in the room but I'm pretty sure they heard it from the other side of the building! Is severe flatulence a menopause symptom? I'm saying yes as it's linked to my bad digestive system which has definitely got loads worse from the menopause.

Thank you . I Was starting to actually wonder if the people replying were just trolling.
I am glad I am not alone and thanks for sharing your story. Cold flannel on the back of my neck sounds like bliss. Its a sudden hot feeling then I feel like I need to sleep.
And yes, the discarded cigarette is actually the least of my worries right now. 🫣

Ahh this made me laugh too as the wind is just uncontrollably random.

Also the aching. Ive been prescribed vitd3. And cant stop weeing, so thats another one for me. Walking my dog in the woods and have to just weeee!

I have lost all sense of direction. Places that I’ve been before seem to have moved!

I have done a fair few - however one of the benefits is memory loss, so I’m unable to recall any on demand.

Not liking littering
and suggesting that if you drink, you cut back alcohol
is not trolling

I've started calling all my team each other's names... they're a lovely team so the unintended consequence is that when I say "Jane...", all 4 of them look up 😭. I feel terrible as it's distracting them from their work and everyone has the right to be called by the right name by their boss....

"Old girls"?

After a dog walk I once threw my car keys into the dog poo bin and not my bag of dog poo 😬.

As an aside I had no idea you could be fined for dropping a fag end. The amount of litter everywhere and fly tipping, 150 quid for a fag end seems ott.

Oh she's been lighthearted, unclench!

My menopause was easy but my poor mother used to flood. Happened out in public too - mortifying. I dreaded it because of this but I was one of the lucky ones and had no symptoms whatsoever.
I don’t know anyone who has had brain fog as bad as what you describe so get yourself to the GP for some HRT.

I'm not convinced about lighthearted, weird maybe 😂

Brain fog, night sweats, crying uncontrollably (perimenopause), periods twice a month, mental health issues (anxiety). That’s just for starters. My step-grandma had flooding on the tube apparently, which must’ve been so embarrassing.

Surgical menopause at 39, so definitely not an 'old girl'

Strangely enough it didn't make me be rude to people trying to give me advice, or throw litter on the floor instead of in the bin, so perhaps it's not the menopause that you're going through

One of mine was addressing someone with every name of a man/woman I knew, so it would be (to a woman), "Hey Jane, Susan, Helen, oh god who am I talking to"

Other than that, getting to the top of the stairs, forgetting why I went up, going back down, remembering, going back up and forgetting again..... Good God that drove me insane.

Hrt is making a huge difference for me. It took a few tweaks to get the dosages right.

Mine was a red mist of rage moment. I was fully convinced I was 1,000,000% right, that the other person was 1,000,000% wrong and misread his fairly calm assertion of the facts as male aggression, which I (channelling the MN collective) was not standing for (I have history of childhood dv). Got home, calmed down, replayed it in my head and omg the embarrassment because I completely misread what happened and had been behaving like a lunatic.

It really unsettled me. I felt I couldn’t trust myself, trust my judgement, and maybe shouldn’t leave the house at all. I still cringe thinking about who might have seen me, as I staged that performance in my local shop

As well as hrt, I’ve had to massively reduce my mental load and slow my pace down. I can’t keep as many balls in the air and plates spinning now. If I have too much on, I start losing my keys, and leaving my sunglasses in the freezer.

I’ve had to get serious about sleep hygiene, diet, reduce alcohol and exercise because I feel the effects in real time now. But that’s been the push I need to sort those out so I count that as a plus.