Is it ADHD? Is it Perimenopause? Is it Both?
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
EP575. Is it ADHD… or is it perimenopause? Or is it both showing up at the same time to completely derail your nervous system?
In this solo episode of The Mom Room, Renee gets real about her experience with ADHD, taking Vyvanse, and navigating perimenopause in her late 30s and early 40s. After a conversation with an OBGYN that stopped her in her tracks, Renee explores why so many women feel like their brains and bodies suddenly stop working, and why the overlap between ADHD symptoms and perimenopause symptoms is so often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed.
Renee breaks down common ADHD symptoms in women, common perimenopause symptoms, where they overlap, and why medications like Vyvanse are helping some women function better during this stage of life. She also shares her personal experience starting birth control to manage perimenopause symptoms, why it helped, why it eventually won’t be enough, and what modern hormone replacement therapy (HRT) actually looks like in 2026.
This episode is equal parts educational, validating, and rage-inducing (in the best way). If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, foggy, irritable, exhausted, or like you’re “failing at adulting,” this conversation will make one thing very clear: you are not broken, you are under-supported.
Women deserve real information, real treatment, and real quality of life. And we’re finally starting to talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Welcome to the mom room. We are audio only today, and I blame the snow day on Monday, first and foremost, |
| 0:12.5 | and then I blame my trip to Toronto on Tuesday. Honestly, it really doesn't take much to throw off my |
| 0:19.3 | entire week. A snow day will do it. A trip to Toronto |
| 0:23.1 | will do it because it's just time consuming. And also it's very hard for me to record when Milo is |
| 0:29.7 | home, obviously. And then if I'm being honest, my plan was, okay, Renee, you have Wednesday totally |
| 0:36.0 | free, except I booked CrossFit at noon so I had all morning |
| 0:40.6 | all afternoon and I got so sidetracked I swear to God today I'm going to be talking about ADHD |
| 0:46.7 | and perimenopause and kind of the relationship between the two which I had no idea even |
| 0:52.7 | existed I will get into that. But speaking of ADHD, |
| 0:56.1 | I took my Vivance, just my 10 milligrams, like low dose this morning. I came home and I literally |
| 1:03.1 | built an entire pitch deck for like a new show. I can't even explain what came over me. I was so |
| 1:09.5 | focused. And then yesterday, I ended up vlogging |
| 1:13.1 | my entire day because, as I mentioned before, Milo and I and my husband spent so much time on |
| 1:19.6 | the weekend watching the Ryan Tran. It's T-R-A-H-A-N. He has, he's a YouTube vlogger, but Amazon Prime must have bought the rights to one of his |
| 1:30.2 | vlogging series, or maybe they sponsored this series. I don't know how it works, but it's literally |
| 1:36.2 | like something you would find on YouTube from a vlogger, but it's a series on Amazon Prime. |
| 1:41.8 | And the whole premise of it is he starts with one penny in L.A. And then he |
| 1:46.8 | tries to make it across the United States to deliver the penny to Mr. Beast. But he has no money. |
| 1:53.0 | Like he starts with a penny. And so the way he tried, like he asked somebody for a few dollars, |
| 1:58.6 | then he buys a case of water. He sells the waters. And then he makes money from the few dollars, then he buys a case of water, he sells the waters, |
| 2:01.7 | and then he makes money from the waters, and then he buys a, or like rents a bike so that he can |
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