Somebody needs to explain to me why it is that when some women begin to lose their estrogen it turns them into psychotic amnesiacs. If men have less estrogen than us even as ours is declining, why don't they burst into tears at virtually nothing, snap at imagined slights by confused family members, and forget that delicate desserts are overbaking while we inspect the ever growing sags mounting around our chin lines?
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think of all the side effects of peri-menopause and menopause, the one that reduced me to a gibbering wreck was loosing my memory. It's come back (mostly), but for a while I had to carry a notebook around with me to list what I had accomplished, and what I had yet to do.
I'm sure I sent two (maybe three) thank you notes for the same item. Luckily my friend understood what was happening, and accepted the notes with grace. And, I suppose someone out there thinks I'm rude because they never received a thank you note.
Hang in there sis....it will pass one day.
Hmmmm...unless you are confessiong to being one, Nan, I don't think that I've ever known one of the "psychotic amnesiacs". Nary an explanation can I offer. As my memory was never all that good (lack of paying attention/absent mindedness), the only thing I noticed was the presence of hot flashes (the first one of which nearly convinced me that I was having a heart attack during a meeting at which I was the only woman in attendance.) Good luck!! Buffy wouldn't steer you wrong: This, too, shall pass.