“Some women have lot of additional issues with their periods...”
Apparently this isn’t “new.” My mother talked about her mother, who ran a huge enterprise with lots of employees. This was in the early part of the twentieth century until the late ‘60’s. But once a month she simply stayed in bed throwing up for a couple of days until menopause.
When I was a teen, I vomited and passed out the first day of each cycle. Now that I’m older, that has gone away, but it still really is a miserable time. It’s like a hangover combined with mild flu, those first 2 days. I power through, but ... it’s miserable. I can’t wait for menopause.