I didn't deal with menopause until I was in my 50's (on lucky me).....I had gone through a trauma when my mother was dying of cancer (with the home care person) which in turn triggered anorexia which in turn stopped my periods (like it hadn't the first time in my 40's when I was an an even dangerously lower weight)....but anyway, so my body didn't know whether it was coming or going & neither did I. Ended up with PTSD because of the trauma & really messed me up......once I finally got my mom's house sold, I used the money to LEAVE my bad marriage of 33 years....& moved 2100 miles away to a hot humid state from the hot dry desert of Calif I had lived in all my life.

All of a sudden I was getting these horrible sweating things hitting me but they sort of felt like when I'd had a fever that lasted for almost a year & would keep breaking so I had no idea what was going on....thought maybe the humidity....because my temp was normal.....then it dawned on me that it had to be menopause (sometimes I can be slow about these things).....the hot flashes only lasted about a year & then they were over & done with. I still sweat from the massive humidity here at times but the hot flashes are over with.

However after my oral surgery in March, I would end up going to bed & about 4 in the morning I would wake up drenched.....so I think the anesthetic was playing games with my body because there was no infection. My friend who is a physician's assistant said that the body can sometimes react like that when something so major has been done surgically......at least it wasn't hot flashes again...but I did the same thing I did with the hot flashes......take a HOT shower. It always seems like when I get that sweaty, no matter how hot I feel I get the chills so the hot shower is the only thing that helps even if I end up drenched right after the shower.