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"&amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s me, or if it&amp;#039;s the perimenopause talking,&amp;quot; a friend of mine told me when she recounted a recent fight with her husband. I know exactly what she means. These days it&amp;#039;s sometimes hard to separate what could be a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; reaction to something irritating from a perhaps hormonally-driven over-the-top response.  The week before last was a case in point. I was exhausted from being woken up 8 or 9 times a night by night sweats (now I&amp;#039;m participating in a clinical trial, I know exactly how many times I&amp;#039;m awake and how little I sleep I actually get); I had a huge project at work, too little time to do it, and no help at all, and, as I ran around for several days, eating little, sleeping less, I could feel whatever patience I had fray and then slip away, and then \u2026 I snapped. I unspooled a long list of complaints to a co-worker who is technically my supervisor, complaining for an hour or more. I was not discreet. I did not hold back.  Only later did I regret what I said, and, in looking back realized the perfect perimenopausal storm that I was in: not sleeping, not eating well, taking on too much, being emotional rather than rationally asking for help, feeling overly stressed (which only triggered more hot flashes). It was all too much, and I wonder if a younger me would not have handled it differently. Probably. All I can do now is own my part, apologize, and try to do things differently next time. It&amp;#039;s not like I can say to my boss, &amp;quot;Well, forget all that last week. It was just the perimenopause talking.&amp;quot; But I&amp;#039;d like to. Have any of you readers experienced your own perimenopausal storm? What happened? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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