Anyone getting more ear worms?

[Summerhut2025]

Hi
im in perimenopause and just started hrt in may.

ive noticed lately im noticing more ear worms, like even songs I haven’t recently heard.

I would obviously get songs going around my head previously every now and again but now it’s literally whenever my mind is quiet, I have a song ear worming.

anyone else get this? Is it perimenopause or from the hrt at all?

thanks in advance

Interesting. Husband is going through a phase of singing the first line of little boxes on a hillside and I'm snared all week. He finds it hilarious so there might be some truth in it if even he's noticed.

My theory (absolutely scientific, of course!) - ear worms are messages from your brain trying to tell you something. Which, due to the delights of menopause brain, is making remembering more important than the beforetimes.

The brain is also reaching back for something that makes sense, which is often a tune from the good old days.

Do the lyrics have a message for you? ✨ 😁

(fully aware I’m making no sense - brain be malfunctioning due to earworm infestation)

More?!

I do hope not. I already have near constant ones, and often a couple at a time doing a mashup. Always have.

It’s either ones I’ve heard on radio or just a random one that means nothing! Obviously would have them every now and again all my life but so much now after starting hrt in may, it’s like whats happening to me now ffs 🤦‍♀️

Ah good to know people can have them all the time. It was never this much before perimenopause. Maybe I need to attempt meditating 🧘