AIBU to think this could be attributed to the menopause?

[Cottagepieandpeas]

Quite long.

I always find it hard to know if I am making a fuss about my health. I do have anxiety and over the years the focus for that has often been my health.

So....Monday afternoon very suddenly felt freezing cold. Could not get warm until late evening. When I went to bed I took my temperature and it was 38.5.

I booked a Covid test and went first thing Tuesday morning.

Woke up several times in the night (normal) and once woke up very sweaty.
(Temp. Tuesday morning was 37.9)

(Result back late Tuesday night - negative.)

All day Tuesday I stayed on the sofa, kept warm, drank plenty, ate bits and pieces.

By about 7pm Tuesday I felt a lot better. Had dinner.
Went to bed. Usual waking up and again woke up after sweating a lot.

This morning (Wednesday) temperature 36.0.

Did a few hours work and then started feeling really unwell again. Stomach pain, very cold, diarrhoea, shivering, totally exhausted.

Have been in bed since about 11. Just starting to feel warm. Nausea. Fatigue.

I did try the dr but they have nothing until 11th unless it’s an emergency.

I have T2 diabetes and am very compliant with my medication.

The sweating at night is new. I am 51. Regular periods.

Am I just getting menopause symptoms? Should I ask the dr, bearing in mind Covid etc?
Or just wait a few days and assume a virus?

I’d assume a virus but the menopause comes with a whole host of symptoms. I’m 48, 3 years post menopause and still get loads of buzzard symptoms but the sweats and flushes are the worst of all. Boiling one second, absolutely freezing the next but I never feel unwell.

Bizarre not buzzard 🤦‍♀️

Thanks @Bobtheshark
I’m hoping those buzzards leave me alone. I’ve got enough to cope with! 😁
Helpful to know that you change from hot to cold quickly.

Hard to be sure but you're certainly the right age and perimenopause is very likely. I can cycle through hot and cold minute by minute but I never feel unwell because of it.

Diabetes is linked to pernicious anaemia & these are also symptoms of PA/B12 deficiency, so I'd see your GP fir a blood tests as you may need B12 injections

Low vitamin D, Potassium, Folate are also worth checking

The sweats you get with the menopause don't give you a fever. I think you have some sort of virus.

As per Singing, lots of cross over of symptoms for Peri and Pernicious Anaemia. I assumed lots of my symptoms were peri because of my age but turned out I wasn’t in peri and it was PA. I’m now on B12 and Folic acid, hundred times better now. So asking for full bloods seems like a sensible starting point.

Meant to add...nothing to say you can’t have some kind of virus as well

Thanks everyone.
I took my temperature again and it was 38.9 so I rang the surgery & am waiting for a call back from the GP.

Hello, hope you get some good advice from GP. Spiking those kinds of temperatures is likely an infection of some sort - may be viral, and definitely not perimenopause although that could be going on as well.

Rather worryingly she said it could be Covid despite negative test result, as about 20% of negatives are false negatives. 😳 (I should have asked her if I need to have another test, but I didn’t).

Otherwise she thought food poisoning / stomach bug.

Advice is to take paracetamol, plenty of fluids and if it gets worse contact them again.