Menopause Symptoms

What is menopause anyway and what are the outwardly observable symptoms that show that we have hit that milestone on our life? Are there any ways of dealing with menopause symptoms or do we just have to resign ourself to the fact that it's just one of those things that we have to live with?

All of use women are born with a finite number of eggs and as we age, the number dwindles until finally at 45-55 years of age, they run out completely and we get the classical symptoms associated with menopause. That's how it usually happens for most women. However, women who have had to have their ovaries removed or if they've had chemotherapy or radiation therapy for some reason or another sometimes experience menopause symptoms earlier due to the sudden depletion of the egg supply. It's not just the lack of eggs per se that results in women having menopause symptoms, rather it's the fact that the lack of eggs also signals the halt in production of hormones primarily oestrogen and progesterone.

Most women suffer from menopause symptoms to some extent in the transition years before the ovaries shut down and these are what cause the most angst and discomfort.

Menopause symptoms - general

Menopause symptoms - what can you do about it?

Just as every woman is different and her experience of menopause is different, so some remedies would work well for some women and others would find that they do little to help. Most women I know go through a trial and error thing to deal with their menopause symptoms until they find what suits them.

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