I skated thru menopause with no hot flashes (knock on wood), but I can't sleep any more than four to six hours per night, at the most. Just a year ago, I could kill it for 8 hours easily.
Itmay not be a friend, but at least it keeps you company when you can't sleep.....No hot flashes here, either. In fact, no nothin' at all in that regard. One month a period and the next month not. It was as brutal a passage as that.