Menopause and Women's Health Issues

Perimenopause and Phantom Periods
If you’ve experienced symptoms exactly like those that may occur when you’re expecting your period, but no period is present or ever arrives, it’s most likely that you’re having a “phantom” period. Phantom periods are described as a period minus the menses. In other words, you may feel irritable, bloated, fatigued, experience headaches and cramps,… (read 879 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Hot Flashes
Some can see it coming while for others it is sudden, but for 75% of the American women undergoing menopause is part of their lives with no sure or safe cure. It is Hot Flashes. Hot flashes are an intense hot feeling on the neck and head, accompanied by racing heartbeats, sweating, dizziness, headaches and anxiety, described as vasomotor symptoms.… (read 758 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Dizziness
Unfortunately during menopause, the explosive symptom of dizziness is all too common. You know the feeling — a spinning sensation inside your head ripping down through the rest of your body making it impossible to be at peace. Or the inability to get up quickly not unlike the sensation you have when just hopping out of a roller coaster. In… (read 600 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Lose Menopause Weight Gain
As you approach menopause, it’s not unusual to gain weight, especially around your mid-section. You have likely not changed your eating habits or level of activity, but the weight continues to accumulate, even if you’re still experiencing regular periods. Most women begin to notice this added weight while they’re in their thirties or forties, and… (read 561 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Anger
During Perimenopause, in the transitional period before menopause, women experience a number of emotional problems and mood swings, including anger, in addition to physical changes. According to experts, perimenopause does not cause anger and other mood swings, but fluctuations in hormone production during perimenopause trigger anger, depression… (read 444 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Headaches
During the mid-life phenomenon known as menopause, changes in headache type, duration and intensity are more common. Throbbing, explosive headaches can pain the sides of your head, and your energy become totally depleted. The slightest opening of an eye can cause a ripple of pain to burst on one side of your fragile head, leaving you in physical… (read 430 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Weight Gain
If you're like many women who are thirty-and-forty-something, you've probably noticed that you're gaining weight that stubbornly refuses to take its departure. You're also probably thinking that this extra weight couldn't possibly be due to menopause — after all, you're still experiencing regular periods. Weight gain in pre-menopausal women… (read 368 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Signs of Menopause
All women in their mid 40s and above the age of 50 experience menopause. The complete cessation of a woman’s periods is called menopause. This can be natural or medically induced due to surgery. It can last for a few years. During this time, there are several hormonal changes in a woman’s body. These changes emerge as the signs of menopause. There… (read 348 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Fatigue
For menopause sufferers, fatigue it is all too common. Some women report lying on the couch with their eyes closed unable to move for long periods of time. Or they experience mental fatigue that provides for feelings of indifference and an overall slumber from day to dusk that makes them unable to perform activities with maximum effort. Fatigue… (read 346 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Weight Loss
During menopause, many women report that the challenge of weight loss becomes even more difficult. The need to lose weight haunts women most of the time, and now more men are reporting the same struggle. When women hit menopause, weight gathers around the waist and hips; despite our best efforts to diet and exercise. What we know is that this… (read 338 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Anxiety
The mid-life phenomenon known as menopause and the stresses of anxiety go hand in hand. Panic attacks, rushes of energy, burning in the chest, unusual vibrations throughout the body, and warm sensations are some of the physical effects you may feel under this condition. When menopause hits, there is a greater chance women will go through anxiety… (read 331 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Weight Gain And Perimenopause
Weight gain and perimenopause are closely related because many women experience unexplained weight gain especially around the midsection as they enter perimenopause, or while they are approaching menopause. Weight gain in the abdominal region is the most common complaint of women entering perimenopause. Most members of the medical fraternity… (read 330 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Water Retention
When women reach a point where they stop ovulating, it is called menopause. It indicates the end of fertility in women. Menopause affects different women differently. For some, menopause starts early, but most would experience it around the age of 50. There is a reduction in the production of estrogen and progesterone in the body during and after… (read 312 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Hair Loss
The onset of menopause can often lead to hair loss and has long been a part of aging that many women fear the most. These days many more women are also experiencing thinning and bald spots as they mature, and both men and women are reaching out for new solutions. Even though there is no real ‘cure', there are many things that can be done to help.… (read 282 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Hot Flash Remedy
Menopause is a natural transition from the normal reproductive stage of a woman. It causes a reduction and fluctuation of hormonal levels. More importantly, it causes emotional disturbances. The sum total of all creates many disorders, including hot flashes for the menopausal women. A hot flash attack dilates the blood vessels on the upper body… (read 281 times since Mar 30th 2007)

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