34 Menopause Symptoms - Are You Suffering From One Or More Of
These?
34 menopause symptoms? Really? It is a logical question to ask.
After all, millions of women are experiencing one or more of the
34 menopause symptoms right now! What is going on? We all
remember a grandmother or older aunt, how they made the
transition into menopause. The so-called change will happen, but
something tells us that experiencing many of the symptoms of
menopause as early as ages thirties or forties is not normal.
First, here is a list of the most common 34 menopause symptoms.
Take a moment to consider each one, as some are subtle and at
first glance may appear to have no relation to being menopause
symptoms:
1 - Aching joints and muscles
2 - Allergy symptoms
3 - Breast tenderness
4 - Chronic fatigue and morning sluggishness
5 - Cold or tingling hands or feet
6 - Craving sweets, caffeine, carbohydrates and unstable blood
sugar levels
7 - Depression, anxiety and mood swings
8 - Dizziness, lightheadedness
9 - Dry, thin or wrinkly skin
10 - Endometriosis
11 - Facial hair growth
12 - Fibrocystic breasts
13 - Hair loss, thinning hair
14 - Headaches, migraines
15 - Heart palpitations
16 - Heavy or light periods
17 - Hot flashes
18 - Incontinence
19 - Irregular periods
20 - Irritatibility, inability to handle stress
21 - Lack of concentration, foggy fuzzy thinking, memory lapses
22 - Leg cramps
23 - Low metabolism
24 - Lower sex drive, loss of sex drive
25 - PMS and menstrual cramping
26 - Night sweats
27 - Osteoporosis
28 - Ringing or buzzing in ears (tinnitus)
29 - Sleep disturbances, insomnia
30 - Spotting, light bleeding
31 - Symptoms of hypothyroidism with normal T3 and T4 levels
32 - Uninary tract and yeast infections
33 - Uterine fibroids
34 - Water retention and unexplained weight gain, especially in
hips, waist and stomach
Menopause is a natural process for a woman, not an illness. As a
woman ages, there will be an expected slowing and ultimately
shutdown in the reproductive cycle and system. This is normal.
However, most of the 34 menopause symptoms are indications of
underlying hormonal imbalance or damage to the body from poor
eating habits, stress, obesity and other factors. Millions of
women in the industrialized countries experience one or more of
these 34 menopause symptoms many years before the normal age of
menopause, which is about 51 years of age.
Why? There are several reasons. Women often put tremendous
demands on their bodies, much more stress than it was designed
to handle, and then do not give it the support it needs. Women
have demanding and stressful careers. There are family
responsibilities. The relationship with the spouse or partner
may not be the best. Aging parents can add to the burden. All of
these and other responsibilities are cumulative in the toll they
take on the body and health of a woman.
And at the same time, the womans body may not be receiving the
support it needs to function as it was designed to do. Poor
eating habits, lack of exercise, obesity, excess caffeine and
alcohol add to the problem instead of helping the body cope with
the demands placed on it. This lack of balance between the
demands made versus support given contributes to many of the 34
menopause symptoms.
Then there is the issue of the menstrual cycle and hormone
production in the body. In the normal menstrual cycle and a
healthy woman, estrogen is the dominant hormone that is produced
for the first 10-12 days following the previous menstrual flow.
If ovulation occurs, ovulation then signals the female body to
produce progesterone, which happens for the next 12 days or so.
If pregnancy does not occur during ovulation, progesterone and
estrogen levels will drop at around day 28, allowing
menstruation to begin. However, if you do not ovulate, you will
not produce progesterone that month. This event, called an
annovulatory cycle, is a typical occurance today for women even
10 to 20 years before the normal age of menopause. This leaves
the woman with an excess of estrogen and a deficiency of the
vital hormone progesterone which can only be produced if
ovulation occurs.
Many women in their thirties or forties are actually having
fewer ovulations, creating hormone imbalance, resulting in many
of the 34 menopause symptoms. And once ovulation ceases at
menopause, progesterone levels fall to virtually zero. At the
same time, estrogen is still being produced, again leading to
hormone imbalance and the resulting symptoms. If a hysterectomy
has happened, surgical menopause means the woman no longer
produces progesterone.
Besides the problems created by missed ovulations or
hysterectomy, excess estrogen is regularly obtained from other
sources. Birth control pills, household chemicals and
pesticides, certain foods that have been sprayed or given
chemicals and many construction materials used in homes are all
sources of unhealthy estrogen. Doctors call this hormone
imbalance condition where excess estrogen exists - estrogen
dominance. What are the symptoms of estrogen dominance? The
symptoms are nearly the same as the 34 menopause symptoms!
When your estrogen and progesterone hormones are balanced, you
feel more alert and energetic. And balancing family, career,
stress and your own needs becomes much easier to do, like it was
when you were younger.
How can a woman tell if the symptoms being experienced are
because of hormone imbalance? One easy and effective way is to
take an online test for early signs of menopause and the 34
menopause symptoms. Used daily in their practice by a leading
womens health clinic, the health test takes just a few minutes
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you can find out more about your health, symptoms you have, what
the symptoms are telling you and what to do about it. Take the
online hormone health test and read more about hormone
imbalance, estrogen dominance symptoms, hysterectomy side
effects and physician-recommended treatments for premenopause
symptoms and the 34 menopause symptoms.
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