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My mother **did** warn me, but experiencing it is very different than hearing about it. For me, HRT was the way to go. Prior to that I would sleep on a towel rather than getting up and changing the sheets in the middle of the night and went to bed with an ice pack. I long for a bedjet even now, but they are expensive. Also still take magnesium glycinate before I go to bed. It helps me a lot. YMMV. My mother did not do any kind of hormones (she started peri about the same time thar the now debunked study came out and basically nobody was prescribing it ) and I said I was not going to suffer in the same way she did. I will say that my excellent gynecologist did have other options if I did not want to pursue the hormone route, so you might ask (another) doctor about that if that is something you are interested in. I can’t say what they were because I was not personally interested in anything but hormones, but the options are not raw dog it or only hormones. There’s a whole lot of in between.