For people with Endo and PCOS, can I ask about your experience with fatigue and brain fog?
Can I ask about your experience with fatigue and brain fog? I have both endo and pcos, I don’t know what stage or anything.
It’s causing trouble at home - I feel so lazy, but it’s hard to focus on more than one thing at a time and I seem to move in slow motion. It’s like I’m dragging myself forward with my fingernails. I have so much brain fog, since my kiddo was born I just feel like it’s soup. But she’s 9 now. At night my brain is really active and it’s hard to sleep. But I have always had trouble falling asleep. Now the laundry and dishes is piling up and I feel like I work pretty steadily on housework and admin and such when I’m at home but I don’t feel like I am making a lot of progress on things or they take longer than they should. My husband is in a really tough position at work and so he’s super stressed and while he does some things around the house, most of it - cleaning, maintenance, repairs, childcare and pet care, “admin”and mental/emotional load - falls on me. So it’s all piling up and has been for awhile.
I’m on spirolactine for acne and it seems to be working, so I’m guessing my hormones are leveling out? Still hairy. I have an IUD with some hormonal bc but before that I had heavy, irregular periods with awful cramps - I understand that’s common. I’m really overweight, which I’m sure doesn’t help, and I’m in a pretty stressful situation right now as I lost one of my part time gigs and I’m trying to replace it. I’m also possibly starting perimenopause. So there are other factors as well.
I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on so I can address it. My doctor is of limited assistance so far and I’m wondering if maybe my biology is part of this. But it’s another thing on my list and honestly I always seem to fall to the bottom, I am not even sure where to start since my doctor hasn’t been able to solve it. The fatigue part anyway.