Along with sweating and poor sleep often comes something many menopausal women don’t anticipate: Brain fog. Few things are more disconcerting than when your brain feels like mush rather than the sharp and useful tool you’ve been used to, or when your memory takes a turn for the worse. Although brain fog is not a medical term, it aptly describes the fogginess in one’s thinking, the mental fuzziness, and the difficulty processing information that often accompany menopause.
This phenomenon is perhaps best described as feeling that you’re enveloped in cotton wool, finding it hard to absorb and recall information or concentrate on everyday tasks, which now require greater concentration, time and effort. The most common complaints include things like forgetting what you walked into a room for, struggling to remember words and familiar names, or
