Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

Menopause is a state of female organism when the menstruation cycle stops, it is a natural finish of childbearing age. The perimenopause is a pre-menopause period, during which your body meets the hormonal changes with various symptoms, individual at any separate case. The level of estrogen, as well as other hormones drops and this is attended by different reactions of the organism. Here is the list of possible menopause symptoms, some of them are common for almost all women, and some are unusual and rare.

Typical Symptoms of Menopause

Irregular Menstrual Cycle
As a rule, changing of the cycle length is the first sign of coming menopause. The cycle may differ from time to time from longer to shorter periods between menstruations.

Night Perspiring & Heat
The night sweats when you feel like in fever for a short periods of time are also typical for pre-menopause period. As a rule these flashes of heat are attended by high sweating. This symptom is experienced by 75% of women.

Frequent Mood Changes
Due to the decrease of estrogene and progesterone production during the perimenopause lots of women characterize their mood state as “highly emotional”. The periods of extreme nervousness are changed by constant sadness or even anxiety. The positive emotions like delight and happiness are also present, but in minority comparing with negative ones.

Headaches
During the menopause there can be frequent migraine attacks and headaches. The hormonal changes may reflect on vascular system, and these changes causes frequent headaches that can be difficult to overcome.

Insomnia
As we already told, menopause coming is accompanied with night sweats and raised emotional excitability. Both of these symptoms may cause another one – difficulties with falling asleep. Lots of women experience insomnia during menopause, frequent awakenings with no ability to fall asleep again.

Vaginal & Uretra Dryness
The estrogene hormone is responsible for the normal moisturing of vagina, as well as urinary tracts. As its production reduces, women may experience problems with raised dryness that cause discomfort and problems with urination.

Weight Changes
The menopause is accomplied with the slowdown of metabolism. The nutrients you intake may not assimilate completely in the organism. That is why it is a high probability of weight gain. Sport and dieting will help to prevent this.

Memory Changes
The changes of memory interfering the everyday activity is also a sign of menopause. Partial loss of memory like forgetting necessary words or some dates are quite normal within the age, but if you feel that this affects you very often and became much more frequent, it is a time to visit a doctor.

Tiredness
The menopause period is rather difficult in terms of vitality. Many women feel constant tiredness even when doing less than usually. It is a temporary side effect of estrogen lowering. If you feel constant tiredness during the long period (more than 2 month), you need to see a doctor to find out the nature of this state.

Decreased Sexual Activity
When coming to menopause many women feel less desires of having sex due to various reasons. Sometimes it is caused by hormonal disbalance, another problem is depressive state or stresses. If your sexual activity is constantly lessening or you don’t feel satisfaction during the sex and this is a problem for your relationship, consult a doctor. He may help you with this.

Harmful Symptoms of Menopause

You should consult a doctor if some of the following symptoms appeared:

Heavy or Frequent Bleeding
If during the periods you feel much heavier bleeding than usual, like changing tampons or pads more than once an hour during eight hours, such bleeding can be dangerous for your health and needs medical assistance. Its reason can be various tumors, uterine diseases and even cancer. It needs urgent medical aid.

High Blood Pressure
The blood pressure needs to be checked regularly. And if your pressure becomes more than 140/80, it causes numerous risks for heart and vascular system. This is medical problem that required qualified diagnostics and therapy.

Heart Palpitations
Irregular heartbeat can be a common symptom of menopause. But if it causes discomfort and bad feeling for you with anxiety and pain in chest, it requires doctor’s assistance. Perhaps it is not only the menopause symptoms, but the signs of heart attack or other health disorders. Anyway, it needs qualified look.

Depression
Feeling hopeless, sad and anxious for a prolonged period of time can be the signs of clinical depression. You do not need to suffer from it, as it is dangerous for your health. You should see a doctor and take appropriate treatment. The depression displays in different ways, individual for each case. But the general symptom is that you do not satisfied with your way of living, and this needs to be fixed up not to turn into psychosis.

Unusual Menopause Symptoms
Sometimes menopause causes very unusual things in your organism that can’t be defined as its direct symptoms. But the fact is that women react in different ways and hormonal problems can have unexpected side effects, including the following:

• Low blood pressure
• giddiness
• Tinnitus (Ringing of the ears)
• Asthma
• Muscles and Joints pains
• Nightmares
• Digestion problems
• Rapid hair fall
• Heartburn in mouth
• Offensive breath odor
• Body odor changes
• Various neurological symptoms like cramps or creepy gooseflesh, itching, raised skin, breasts sensivity, etc.

If you have some of the symptoms described above, consult a medic to define whether it is a menopause symptom or it has another nature.