It's a bit of a long story 😢.
I was very ill in peri , aged 47 but docs didn't know what was wrong with me and I was diagnosed with ME / CFS. A diagnosis which I now believe to be wrong. After about 3 years I managed to get on a sort of even keel although I wasn't 100%. I suffered with night sweats and then hot flushes and had terrible aches and pains which I put down to old age!
Then at the age of 53 everything went haywire and all the old symptoms came back but were much worse .... horrific hot flushes, total exhaustion, constant nausea, insomnia , anxiety,..... the penny then dropped that my problems for the last 6 years had in fact all been due to menopause. I had my last period aged 50.
I've been in HRT for 2 years now and I'm doing well. X