Your menopause symptoms

[TheFlakyPoet]

Apologies, if there's already a thread similar to this, but I thought it might be useful to update symptoms as we experience them.
So far, my symptoms are insomnia, heartburn (or perhaps this is unrelated to the menopause?) and some anxiety. I'd be interested to hear other experiences. Any advice on how to deal with the insomnia, I'm waking up at 4am and unable to go back to sleep.

Insomnia

Aches and pains

Rage

Horrendous night sweats

HRT completely stopped the last three but not the insomnia .

So far:

Brain fog and anxiety. Very bad in the week before and after my period.
Reduced menstrual cycle length. Gone from 35 days minimum to 22 days maximum.
Insomnia
Itchy ears (really)
Being permanently too hot. Except when I'm too cold. FML.
Rage and tearfulness. Sometimes at the same time.
Excessive hair on my chin.
Complete inability to lose weight.
Muscle aches, lower back and hip pain.

HRT has helped, a bit.

@Allthegoodusernamesareused My symptoms were always worse a week before my period (when I had them), also with shorter heavier cycles.
Now I've had no cycle for 3 months... another 9 to go!

3 times I got to 11.5 months and then had a period.

@Allthegoodusernamesareused oh no, that's frustrating. I had got to 6 months without a cycle last year and then got a period when I had covid. I'm not sure how the GPs measure when someone has officially menopaused. It is 12 months isnt it?