First-person narrative (middle-40s speaker) describing onset of perimenopause symptoms — fatigue, increased need for sleep, forgetfulness/brain fog, reduced daily energy — discovered while preparing and opening a new medical practice; labs confirmed perimenopause. The account connects health changes to a professional transition.
I really was kind of at a stagnant place. As I approached into my middle 40s, began to have a lot of the same symptoms that all of my friends have and that I have since come to discover is perimenopause. Fatigue, not being able to do quite as much in a day as I used to. Forgetfulness, a little bit of brain fog. I wanted to sleep all the time. I didn't have energy. I really was kind of at a stagnant place. And then when I started preparing for this new transition to the new practice and we opened this new practice, I was able to go back and look at and do all of my labs with myself and found that, oh, hello, perimenopause is here.
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