Menopause and Women's Health Issues

Menopause and Perimenopause
In our youth-oriented society, women are often fearful of any label that contains the word "menopause", because it is often presented as a disease or a condition associated with old age. The truth is that for many women, menopause and the stage of life it represents, is very positive. They no longer fear being pregnant and thus have more sexual… (read 219 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Hot Flash Clothing and Menopause Sleepwear
It's estimated that 3 out of every 4 women experience hot flashes and their counterparts, night sweats, as they transition into menopause. While some women have only mild or occasional discomfort, others find them very disruptive. How They Work After a hot flash, your body temperature goes back into the normal range, but sweat remains on the skin.… (read 215 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Perimenopause Symptoms – The Transition
Until you reached this stage in your life, there’s a high probability that you’d never even heard of perimenopause. As a matter of fact, you were probably a bit surprised that perimenopause (the transitional period before menopause) could begin so early in life, and last for ten years – sometimes even longer. Symptoms of perimenopause are… (read 208 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Progesterone
Do women going through menopause have lowered levels of progesterone? Recent research tells us that women do suffer from decreased levels of progesterone and also experience other symptoms such as unexplained weight gain (particularly in the stomach area), depression, fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, mood swings, migraines and loss of libido. A… (read 206 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause Manners For Men
If over 30 million women are going through menopause, think of what the men are going through! Menopause is not what it used to be. Women are approaching this time of life differently – the new outlook is energized as most women are healthy and become free of many past identities and responsibilities. There are natural options I know many women… (read 206 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Beat Hot Flashes
There is little doubt that menopause is a taxing time both physically and emotionally. For busy women trying to live normal, active and fulfilling lives, it can be extremely frustrating to deal with the many symptoms of menopause, all of which can be exhausting, upsetting and sometimes unpleasant. Nevertheless, similar to menstruation and… (read 204 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Complications
Usually one in some 100 women will experience ovarian failure before the age of 40. A chilling fact is that a lot of them have complications because of this and some half of million women in the United States must have hysterectomies. Other severe complications would involve the complete removal of both ovaries. Complications will most often… (read 199 times since Mar 30th 2007)

The Significant Symptoms of Menopause
Many women still remain in the dark about the details of menopause. One survey, for example, found that most women think the average woman experiences menopause at age 45, when the actual average age is between 50 and 51. Also, most women significantly overestimate the length of time the average woman experiences hot flashes, believing it to be… (read 197 times since Mar 30th 2007)

GERD and Menopause
Hot flashes, cold rushes, bouts of rapid heartbeat, irritability, mood swings, crashing fatigue, depression and a host of other changes ? welcome to menopause when for a while you seem to feel that life as you knew it is coming to a ?pause?. Add to this the gastrointestinal distress, indigestion, flatulence, bloating and nausea associated with… (read 196 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Hypothyroidism
In the United States, more than 20% of the women in menopause are diagnosed with hypothyroidism — a sluggish thyroid. Women need to understand the consequences of menopause on the thyroid, as with the increase in age, more women are affected by hypothyroidism. Menopause and hypothyroidism have common symptoms, such as depressed mood,… (read 194 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Eliminate PMS Symptoms
PMS has been defined by more than 150 symptoms, ranging from mood swings; weight gain to acne. The symptoms vary from woman to woman and cycle to cycle. The symptoms may be mild, moderate, or so severe as to be incapacitating. The mental causes for PMS are created through thought patterns allowing confusion to reign—Not feeling good enough and… (read 193 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Incontinence
Menopause can bring uncomfortable symptoms such as incontinence in several different forms. Even younger women experience occasional bouts of urinary leakage during pregnancy, after childbirth, and sometimes even during sex. But menses seems to bring out more occasions of uncontrollable incontinence. This inability to control your bladder can… (read 192 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Vaginal Dryness
Many women feel vaginal dryness during menopause due to the thinning of the mucus membranes and the loss of elasticity in the walls of the vagina. The reduction in the production of estrogen in the ovaries may cause the thinning of the vaginal lining. This, in itself, does not cause any problems, unless the lining of the vagina becomes inflamed… (read 192 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Menopause and Depression
Many women experience bouts of depression as they approach menopause. As a matter of fact, midlife can be considered a period of increased risk for depression in women, the majority taking place in the years during the transition through the menopausal years. This period of time is associated with gradual declines in estrogen levels, which may be… (read 187 times since Mar 30th 2007)

Early and Late Menopause
Most women expect to continue having a monthly period and be able to have children well into their 40s, though maybe with greater difficulty. So it can be a nasty shock for some women when they start having menopausal symptoms in their 30s. This can be devastating, and happens in about 1% of women. What is early menopause? Early (premature)… (read 184 times since Mar 30th 2007)

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