Hi, I just read this thread for the first time and your symptoms are very like mine, but I'm 54 so have no problem with doctors thinking it's menopause. It certainly sounds like meno symptoms.
If there are other reasons for night sweats I hope someone posts about it, wrensong you mentioned a lot, could fasting during the day lead to night sweats?
I fast during the day then have an evening meal and something sweet after that. The reason for my fasting is that it's the only way I've found to slightly control my lifelong IBS pain which is caused in my case by a hereditary condition I was born with.
In my 30s I had night sweats only when I was on fluoxetine and it stopped when I was taken off that med. Are you on anything like that?
At night I have three full length towels under me and one on top, they're in the tumble dryer now. I have a spare nightie by the bed and a change of clothes dotted around the house, not everyone living here is my family, we take strays, lol, so I can't run around half naked, I need to access dry clothes.
Then the cold sensitivity, I'm not sure who mentioned it first, but it is a huge problem for me. I dread having a shower and I haven't this month, we have a bath too so I use that and suffer the cold less that way, but I'd love to be able to shower again, it's just painful to get cold, I shiver so violently I can get sore muscles from it and I don't know why. I can be standing under hot water and the bits not touching the water at that moment are screaming too cold at me. I hadn't known it could be menopause related.
Often I just wash this bit, then that bit and get around myself without actually getting naked or into the water.
In the night when I need the loo it's awful. I get up wet, grab a dry nightie and my dressing gown, dash for the loo, freeze as I change, shiver uncontrollably and dive onto my husband to get warm again away from the wet towels. I'm lucky he doesn't mind!
Mind you it is January.