I’m Definitely In Perimenopause

I still haven’t had the time to go and get my blood work done, which I know I need to do, but I’m 45 and about to turn 46 tomorrow, and I can say with full confidence that I’m 100% in perimenopause.

I know some people like to wait for official confirmation before they say anything, but when you’re living in your own body every day, you know when something has changed….and something has definitely changed.

It’s not like I woke up one morning and suddenly felt like a completely different person. It’s more like all these small things started happening and at first I’d blame everything else. I’d say I was tired, or I had too much going on, or maybe I slept badly, or trained too hard, or maybe I was just being moody. But when you put it all together, it’s pretty obvious what’s going on.

Forgetting words is probably one of the strangest parts for me. I’ll be in the middle of a sentence and randomly the word I need just disappears from my brain. I know what I’m trying to say, I can almost see the word in my head, but it just won’t come out. It’s so annoying because I don’t mentally feel old at all. In my head, I still feel 35. I still feel sharp, ambitious, motivated, and very much like I’m in the middle of building the best version of my life, but then I’ll be standing there trying to remember the most basic word.