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[babyjane]

Why, oh why does dropping levels of oestrogen cause clumsiness and ineptitude 

I used to be so organised and efficient and could keep many balls in the air at once, not any more.  If I can drop it, spill it, upset it or fall over it I can and I do, regularly.  I can no longer cook a full meal from scratch as I get too hot and bothered and stressed and it ends up on the floor so either hubby has to help or I cut corners with ready prepared items.

I have become a right clumsy clot, why does lack of hormones reduce our ability like this?

[Tempest]

I can relate, BJ! I trip over things that aren't even there and my Mum was the same after her TAH/BSO, so much so that she fell in a pot hole that didn't even exist (we went back to check, nope - nothing for miles) and broke her leg!

Dinner has ended up on the floor many a time - it's getting it out of the low level oven that gets me!  Oh, the joys.......!!! xxxxxx

[babyjane]

The other week at the checkout I was getting bamboozled and dropped my purse, cards flying everywhere.  My lovely hubby just said, as he picked them all up, 'take your time, there's no rush'.  I could have kissed him but would probably have dropped something else in the process. I HATE IT 

[Ju Ju]

As someone who has always been clumsy, I haven't noticed any difference. But I do lose words! Can be embarrassing! Usually common everyday words.

[matildamouse]

I dropped a big yoghurt in the supermarket which splashed all over the corridor. I got hold of the cleaner in another row and apologised and asked her to please clean it up as I am concerned someone might slip and have a fall because of me. As I walked away from her, I took a mustard jar off the shelf and dropped that as well with mustard all over the place even in my hair. I had to go back to the same cleaner and asked her to clean that up as well. I left my trolley just there, went home and bursted in tears...

[MicheleMaBelle]

Injured my knee and elbow on a boat last weekend.
Came home feeling sorry for myself. Last step to front door. Still don't know how I managed it, tripped, headered the front door, took the knee out of my trousers, bruised the other knee, cut the knee I had already injured...then stubbed by big toe later that night.
Few days later, walked backwards into a door, corner cut my leg.
Can't cope with shopping or cooking. If I make a cup of tea, kitchen looks like I've attempted 3 course meal.
Even getting dressed is difficult- go round in ever decreasing circles like a mad polar bear and lord, is my stuff in a right guddle.Used to be so tidy and organised- now I'm a bloody shambles! 😩

[Mbrown001]

Yep been there done that and got the T shirt.

I've fallen quite a few times. I once dropped a burning hot dish of cauliflower cheese and burned my neck so badly I had to have it dressed by the nurse for a week.

It's like puberty in reverse. Anyone that's had a teenager,  especially boys,  knows how clumsy they can be. The body grows quicker than the brain can keep up with. . Hormones also play a huge part.

Have to say my biggest problem is not being able to find the word that I'm looking for. At certain times of the month I struggle quite badly and it makes me feel really stupid not being able to string a sentence together.

Mrs Brown.

[cubagirl]

Ju Ju words fail me frequently. Often think I'm losing my marbles!    Not so bad if hubby is about, I'll end up describing something & he tells me the word I've lost! Hate it!!!

[babyjane]

Oh I am so glad, thank you all for sharing.  My mother's sister started with early onset Alzheimers at 58 and I know this is all hormone related but sometimes I can't get aunty out of my mind especially as she suffered with anxiety too.  Don't know if it started with her hormones but it was definitely dementia by her 60s (my age)

[Ju Ju]

In my house, we have vicious door handles and door frames that move. They're out to get me! I'm not paranoid of course!

[Mbrown001]

I have a massive bruise on my bum and I've  not got a clue how I did it. I spent a long time trying to wash it off in the shower this morning as I thought it was a mark left from my HRT patch. It was only when I put my glasses on that I could see what it was 

Mrs Brown

[cubagirl]

Mrs B I find bruises just seem to appear these days. I find myself trying to think back to what I've done, pretty much coming up with a blank 99% of the time. Part of the ageing process, our skin things, so bruising shows up more. Great fun!

[lollipop]

Oh my god ladies I have had such a giggle reading these posts,just thought it was me lol used to be so onit my family thought I was a freak  ;Dbut now I can't get sentences out,sometimes can't write,spill n drop everything,fall over fresh air (without a drink lol) walk into stuff looked fir my glasses the other day had them in my bloody hand all the time my oh thinks it's funny cuz he is the simpleton in our house now he calls it me wished he was going through the menopause see how he likes it xx

[Ju Ju]

  well I try to wash my face, only to find my glasses on!

My spelling has gone to pot. I struggled when I was young, probably cos I'm on the dyslexia spectrum, but turned things round when studying A level English literature and then marking work as a teacher, but recently I seem to have gone back to childhood struggles. Thank goodness for auto spelling on the computer, but I've continued a lifetime habit of rereading. Even so I've let a few whoopsie spellings through! 

[lollipop]

Ju ju ah the joys lol,I put food in the bin and hold on to the empty wrappers  it can only get better ladies  :)x