Consumer Reports And Tips
Menopause Symptoms For Women Over 40 Or 50
Okay, so you are a woman over 40 or 50 going through life and coping with all the ups and downs of life and somehow getting by with a boring job, the kids are being, well just kids really, and your husband is also a bit boring but at least he is bringing in a regular pay check. Your life is not perfect but it’s not too bad either.
Gradually however you start to feel stressed out, irritable, you can’t seem to regulate your temperature very well and your bedding seems to make you sweat a lot nowadays; perhaps you usually only have short menstrual periods lasting for a few days, but lately they seem to be lasting longer and sometimes don’t happen at all for the odd month. For some odd reason you seem to be growing more hair in certain places but the hair on your head seems to be getting somewhat thinner. You are suffering from a lot of women’s health issues.
You seem to be getting more depressed lately and losing control of your life. It takes longer for you to get over depressions and your whole family seems to be more hyper and argumentative; come to think of it, everybody at work seems to be more argumentative nowadays as well.
Perhaps you feel that you are suddenly starting to get older, feeling more aches and pains. If you are in your mid-to-late forties or early fifties, then it is most likely that you are suffering from the first symptoms of menopause, a stage known as pre-menopausal. A woman is considered to be menopausal when she has not had a period for at least one year.
Symptoms of Menopause For Women Over 40 Or 50:
Symptoms of menopause can start in a woman’s early thirties or even twenties but this is very unusual and most women don’t start entering their menopause phase before their mid forties, and in the USA... it seems the average age is about 51. Factors such as surgery, treatment for cancer, failure of the ovaries, thyroid problems and even viral infections can cause early menopause.
The symptoms of menopause vary from woman to woman, and factors such as their general health, diet and nutrition, and the way that a woman’s family react to her, can affect both the time that the menopause starts and how it affects the woman. There are two types of symptoms, early and late onset; early symptoms include those shown above and also abnormal vaginal bleeding and hot flashes which are a feeling of warmth throughout the body, most obvious in the head and chest, usually lasting for around half a minute. Late symptoms include vaginal dryness and irritation, osteoporosis, and heart disease.
Menopause is a difficult stage in a woman’s life, where she realizes that she will not be able to have any more children; for women who have not been able to have any children, it must be particularly difficult to cope with this stage of their lives. It is quite possible that a menopausal woman will loose her self esteem, but a great many women who have gone on to have HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) treatment have never felt better, having better skin and more energy than ever before.
