Hi all,
Just wondering the above. I have had many sensations of peri. coming and going, but this one has made me almost unfunctional most of the time.

Hotflashes are uncomfortable, palp's are scary, and the many other symptoms I have delt with, but to not be able to think clearly and walk around in some daze feeling drunk and spacing out often is just something i am not dealing with well. I have the usual complaint of brain fog such as forgeting what you are doing and saying or going through about 5 names before you get your own childs right. This is scary though like my brain just doesn't want to work. I have to have most people repeat what they are saying because I can't comprhend(sp) it, I have to listen so intently and focus I think I even squint my eyes because my husband has made comments about the face I am making. Along with this inability to actually think comes this dizzy feeling or floating feeling which has rendered me unable to drive for fear of it happening while driving.

I still actually have days where it feels like somebody lifted some heavy veil off my eyes and I can see and think clear without straining how I have forgotten what it is like to feel clear, but are they are becoming fewer and fewer. Most of the time I feel like there is cotton just crammed in my head and i can't see through it and it is jumbling all my thoughts or completely smothering them. I also, when I get this, get very tired and I get irritated with anyone talking to me or touching me. I just sit and space and it seems to be a struggle to even keep my head upright.

My husband is very supportive and says it will go away when my body settles down, but that could be years and what if it doesn't? I can't even imagine...I am just sooo tired at this point dealing with it, not an angry tired, but a I give up tired. This one symtom has made me very dependent and unproductive and since it has taken alot of freedoms I am depressed.

Thanks for listening and any advice as to what helps would be wonderful. Mikki

forgive the typo's...what should haven't taken me a few min. to right was a struggle. It's like having to disect every word...ok I am typing spell....s...p..e..l..l. finger move to the s now to the p and so forth...

I do not know if you are interested in taking hormones but estradiol cures brain fog for me. I used to think that I was loosing my mind, my memory was shot, and I had trouble carrying on an adult conversation. I was wondering if I could be getting the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer’s. The right amount of estrogen has cured all that for me.

I have to take a little testosterone also because it helps me get over my anxiety.

Kathy

thanks..I forgot.brain fog-
use fish oil and ginko bilkoba ( sorry about the spelling)

This is so weird. It's like when I read what others are experiencing, it's like a giant flood light goes off and I realize, that's exactly what's happening to me!! I must be extremely dense, cause I could not put my finger on it. I can hardly carry on a conversation sometimes. I mean simple ones. I had no idea all this was related. Probably been going on for so long, I thought it was normal. I can't even pick up a book to read, can't comprehend it. I skim through these posts and I actually unloaded both barrels on someone I've already come to love, Sorry again Jonie, cause I couldn't comprehend what she was saying. I can't even believe this is happening. I am so glad to find someone who can bring these things to light for me and can understand. I love you all, bev