Hi, I'm new on this site. I am 59 years old and for the last 10 weeks have been suffering debilitating anxiety, insomnia, waking up overheated (sometimes sweating), hair thinning, weight loss, palpitations and racing heart. I also wake up in the night and my fingers have gone dead. GP advised me my calcium levels were fine so this was probably due to the anxiety. Many people have suggested that it might be due to the menopause. I thought I'd got off lightly - my periods stopped suddenly when my sister-in-law died in 2014 when I was 51. I didn't get any menopausal symptoms and thought that was it. However, now I'm wondering if that was the menopause at all, and I'm actually going through it now? Obviously my body reacts to trauma (as in the periods stopping). I've had a lot of stressors in my life recently and feel like it all piled up and tipped me over the edge. I'm wondering if there was a hormonal shift to explain my current symptoms... any ideas?