Agh the achiness you now both have sounds bad, I didn’t realise this was something that happened, so perhaps I ought not to wish for menopause too soon!
I heard something like you said Owl about early menstruation being associated with later menopause or some such thing. It was actually a nurse who came to give us the talk back in the day, I was 13 so guess what I’d already started so that talk was a little late for me and many others.