September 11, 2010
Recognizing The Signs Of Menopause
Judy Wellsworth asked:
As your fifties are drawing nearer, you have been noticing more and more changes in your body and your emotional state. For a long time you were chalking the changes up to PMS, but now you have to admit that they are a more-or-less permanent state of affairs, not limited to the few days prior to your periods. The only logical, if somewhat upsetting, explanation, is that your symptoms are really Signs Of Menopause.
Mood Swings
You know all about PMS, and have known about almost since you reached puberty. You had the cramps and you had the emotional swings just before your periods began, and now you are experiencing the signs of menopause in the form of similar mood swings, but they are no happening on a daily basis, everyday. You move from laughing with delight to weeping in despair for no discernible reason, and you see no signs of this stopping any time soon.
While a few lucky women are blessed with a brief menopause, the rest of us will experience it as a series of changes which arrive with middle age and can continue into the late fifties or even sixties. When signs of menopause do come out of nowhere, they can be quite frightening, but fortunately that is the exception.
Hot Flashes And Night Sweats
The most common and, for many women, the most troubling, of the signs of menopause are hot flashes and night sweats. Hot flashed can come on at anytime, in any location, leaving a woman flushed and perspiring for anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. And night sweats simply destroy any chance for a full night's sleep, waking a woman to soaked bedding and often forcing her to change the sheets.
Migraine headaches, if they begin in those who have never before had them, is another of the signs of menopause. Even worse, menopausal headaches are often accompanies by extreme fatigue.
You can get a fairly good idea of when you can expect to start seeing signs of menopause by finding out and averaging the ages when your mother and grandmother began experiencing them. You can also ask your gynecologist to do a blood test to determine if your estrogen levels have decreased enough to qualify you for menopause. If you know that your physical problems are signs of menopause, you will be able to start the treatments to minimize them.
hot flashes
As your fifties are drawing nearer, you have been noticing more and more changes in your body and your emotional state. For a long time you were chalking the changes up to PMS, but now you have to admit that they are a more-or-less permanent state of affairs, not limited to the few days prior to your periods. The only logical, if somewhat upsetting, explanation, is that your symptoms are really Signs Of Menopause.
Mood Swings
You know all about PMS, and have known about almost since you reached puberty. You had the cramps and you had the emotional swings just before your periods began, and now you are experiencing the signs of menopause in the form of similar mood swings, but they are no happening on a daily basis, everyday. You move from laughing with delight to weeping in despair for no discernible reason, and you see no signs of this stopping any time soon.
While a few lucky women are blessed with a brief menopause, the rest of us will experience it as a series of changes which arrive with middle age and can continue into the late fifties or even sixties. When signs of menopause do come out of nowhere, they can be quite frightening, but fortunately that is the exception.
Hot Flashes And Night Sweats
The most common and, for many women, the most troubling, of the signs of menopause are hot flashes and night sweats. Hot flashed can come on at anytime, in any location, leaving a woman flushed and perspiring for anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. And night sweats simply destroy any chance for a full night's sleep, waking a woman to soaked bedding and often forcing her to change the sheets.
Migraine headaches, if they begin in those who have never before had them, is another of the signs of menopause. Even worse, menopausal headaches are often accompanies by extreme fatigue.
You can get a fairly good idea of when you can expect to start seeing signs of menopause by finding out and averaging the ages when your mother and grandmother began experiencing them. You can also ask your gynecologist to do a blood test to determine if your estrogen levels have decreased enough to qualify you for menopause. If you know that your physical problems are signs of menopause, you will be able to start the treatments to minimize them.
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