Brain Fog and Menopause
Dec 01, 2020
Over 60% of menopausal women report cognitive difficulties such as problems thinking, reasoning and remembering, also called brain fog. Brain fog isn’t a psychological or medical term, but a lay term that describes the fogginess experienced by many women during menopause. Finding the right word mid-sentence or forgetting people’s names is common-place with menopausal women. Concentrating and making decisions is frustrating especially when this group of women are hitting their professional peak after years of working their buns off to get to where they are now.
Working menopausal women, despite where they work, whether in management positions, CEOs at the height of their careers, employees and entrepreneurs in all sectors of business say brain fog is embarrassing when they are expected to be firing on all cylinders. Because their performance stays generally within the normal limits of functioning, their cognitive decline is not always easy to detect with standard medical tests or evidenced by close family members.
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