All the women on my side of the family moaned and groaned about menopause...it was ENDLESS. Every little thing... terrible emotional upheavals...etc.

When mine came, it was not really that bad. I didn't have much in the way of hot flashes or upheavals. Mostly my sleeping changed. I was rather glad in fact when it was finally over, and I could "think" as an adult without all those hormones clouding my mind!

But some women who react severely to lowering estrogen, get all sorts of complaints, and have a pretty bad time of it. I used to see them every day. Falling estrogen is a trigger for pain, and many migraines occur during the end of the menstrual cycle, when the estrogen starts to fall suddenly. These women have more difficulties with menopause. I went to a chronic pain conference once which had research on pain and falling estrogen.

You'll just have to see what happens to you.