Wednesday, 31 August 2011

All you need to know about menopause

The term "menopause" comes from two Greek words meaning "month" and "to the end." It translates as "the end of the month." The medical definition of menopause is the cessation of menstruation for 12 months. American women, the average age of menopause 51st However, there may be a woman and her late 50s, between thirty years. Menopause also occurs when the woman's uterus and ovaries are removed surgically.
Perimenopause is the period of 2-15 years before menopause, in which a woman experiences changes due to decreased levels of estrogen and progesterone. For some women the perimenopause, the time rather frightening as the actual menopause.
Early symptoms of menopause, which should take note
Some of the symptoms of early menopause can be easily confused, especially if the woman is under 40. Most women over 40 tend not to think they have problems of menopause, but not unknown start for young women between 20 and early menopause. Here are some early signs of menopause that many women experience.
1st Mood swings are often cited as a symptom of early menopause, but no conclusive studies on this topic. Currently it is estimated that mood swings can be more directly attributed to lack of sleep that some women experience night sweats due together. This idea is especially true if the woman has a history of depression, the story added to the loss of sleep can cause mood swings.
Although you can not prevent menopause, you can use the steps below to reduce the symptoms. The majority of menopausal and postmenopausal women are living full, healthy and active.
2nd Irregular periods, menstrual disorders
Most women will experience periods of absence, short or irregular, at some point in their lives. A wide range of conditions that can cause these symptoms, while the most common cause is a hormonal imbalance. Your time may come more often, every 24 days instead of every 28 or later than usual to come. You can take one period of light that only a few days next month have very heavy bleeding. This period may last long or go on and on, what feels like an eternity. You can for a month and then back to normal for several months, spent two consecutive terms.
Menstrual disorders is more common in the forties, than before the menopause. Hormonal imbalance or a decrease in estrogen production is the main cause. There may be medical causes for irregular periods, so they are not as common, however.
3rd Tachycardia
Many women reported feeling an increase in heart rate and have become very scared of this feeling. Nobody seems to be a clear answer as to why this starts to occur in the peri-menopause, but it seems to be what others call "heart palpitations", and also panic-related. The most important thing is to check with your doctor whether it appears to be beyond the norm. Of course, even the doctors did not suspect, menopause, sometimes. Oprah was not a proper diagnosis from your heart pounding! It was the middle of doctors for several years, and none of them reported menopause. It was his trainer, Bob Greene, Oprah told the!
Hot flashes and other vasomotor symptoms 4.Hot
Heat waves is the most typical and best-known symptom of menopause. Hot flashes can begin to stop menstruation 4 years, but still often one or two years after the menopause. Hot flashes are sudden waves of body heat, usually on the face or chest. These problems can be accompanied by flushing, palpitations, sweating, chills or night sweats. Hot flashes are the changes in the control of body temperature.
Problems 5.Intercourse
Vaginal dryness and less elastic tissue are the most common symptoms, due to the effect of estrogen decreases. Vaginal dryness can cause pain and irritation during intercourse. May decrease interest in sex and spreads a prerequisite for more stimulation to reach orgasm is very. Vaginal lubricants can the relationship less painful.
6th Insomnia
Many women have trouble sleeping at some time during the menopause. You may have trouble sleeping or even more often you can wake up in the middle of the night and have difficulty falling asleep. Another common symptom of menopause is called night sweats. You can awake at night sweating. There is nothing to be frightened, because this is just hormones that cause your body to that warm and natural reaction to excessive heat welding, which can be followed by chills.
Perimenopause can begin as early as 35th It begins about two years earlier in women than women who do not smoke. The timing is not based on race, class, pregnancy, breastfeeding, fertility, the contraceptive pill, size, age at menarche (first period) or age last pregnancy.
The average age of menopause is 51 If it is natural or surgical menopause before age 40 Age is, in the early menopause.
Estrogen levels drop sharply during the surgical menopause, especially if both ovaries are removed at the same time. These conditions often increase with menopause and can lead to great physical and emotional changes such as depression.
It is comforting to remember that perimenopause is just a phase that all of these symptoms are temporary. For most women, the last two or three years, although some, as long as 10 or 12 years.
It is important to remember that all women need regular when they are menstruating.
Although menopause can not be prevented, but measures taken to reduce the symptoms.
Dealing with menopause symptoms
Talk to your doctor about hormone replacement
Hormone replacement therapy and hormone replacement therapy are known to take estrogen or a synthetic method of synthetic estrogen and progesterone, also known as progestin.This Help
Reduce hot flashes
To relieve vaginal dryness
Bone loss
It frees you from mood swings and depression
Recent research is that, although the hormone replacement therapy helps to control and effective management of the symptoms of menopause is a study of various health problems.The found that women on combined estrogen-replacement therapy with progestin (Prempro) was:
or an increase of 41% of stroke
or an increase of 29% of heart attacks
or a 100% increase in the rate of blood clots
or a 22% increase in total cardiovascular-
or with an increase of 24% breast cancer
or a 100% increase in the rate of Alzheimer's disease (in women over 65)
For this reason you should consult a doctor about the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy. If you have certain health conditions, do not be a candidate for hormone replacement therapy. Some of these conditions are:
Breast and uterus
History of stroke or heart attack
History of blood clots
Liver disease
In some cases, alternative medications taken to strengthen bones and treat other problems with the menopause are associated.
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