The Menopause Sense Check with Frances Bellamy

Menopause Brain Fog: What’s Happening to Your Memory?

Walking into a room and forgetting why, losing a familiar word or struggling to concentrate can be frightening. Frances explores cognitive changes people describe during the menopause transition, without treating every memory concern as automatically hormonal.

In this episode of The Menopause Sense Check, Frances explores a familiar problem and offers a more grounded way to think about what comes next. The focus is on recognising the pattern, understanding what may be keeping it going and identifying a realistic first step.

In this episode

• What people mean by brain fog
• How poor sleep, stress and menopausal symptoms may interact
• When new or persistent cognitive symptoms warrant clinical assessment.

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Go deeper with the featured book: Menopause Brain Fog

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Why You Keep Waking Up at 3am

You fall asleep exhausted, then wake in the early hours suddenly alert, hot or unable to settle. Frances unpacks the possible connections between perimenopause, night sweats and disrupted sleep while making room for other medical explanations.

In this episode of The Menopause Sense Check, Frances explores a familiar problem and offers a more grounded way to think about what comes next. The focus is on recognising the pattern, understanding what may be keeping it going and identifying a realistic first step.

In this episode

• Why falling asleep and staying asleep are different problems
• How to record a useful sleep pattern
• Which symptoms are worth discussing with a healthcare professional.

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Go deeper with the featured book: Menopause and Sleep

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Perimenopause can be confusing when symptoms do not look like the version you were taught to expect. In Episode 1, Frances Bellamy explores why the transition can be hard to recognise, what to notice, and how to have a more useful conversation with a clinician.

Featured book: Perimenopause by Frances Bellamy.

Produced by Edenroot Studios. This episode is for education and is not individual medical advice. Seek qualified care for symptoms that concern you.