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We often hear older women complaining about hot flushes, irritability, depression and a host of other physical and emotional discomforts. In such instances, it is common to assume that a woman is in her menopausal stage. Even before we speak of this life-changing event however, it is equally crucial to talk about perimenopause. “What?” you ask, “There’s another one before we even get to menopause?”
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Seeing Depression as a Sign of Menopause
It may be normal to occasionally descend into the blues as one grows older. Various life events may normally make one feel sad. When a woman however experiences depression somewhere in her 30s to 50s, it may be taken as a sign of menopause. To be exact, women who are undergoing the transition to menopause called perimenopause may experience depression coupled with other symptoms.
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Going through premature ovarian failure or early menopause isn’t only an individual process. It also affects those around you, especially your partner. In addition, in turn, his reaction may have an enormous effect on you.
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Top Causes of Premature Menopause
Most women will experience menopause sometime during their late forties to early fifties. In the United States, the average age for most women to go through menopause is 51 but, in some cases, women may experience it at a much earlier age.
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The Myths Surrounding Male Menopause
Male menopause, also known as Andropause or Viropause, has long been the subject of speculation and controversy. Is it real or just another fad on the road to equal rights for both sexes? Is it a legitimate concern or is it just the latest scare, designed to send people rushing into the doctor’s office?
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Premature Menopause – What are the Signs?
Generally, most women experience menopause somewhere between the 48th and 55th year of their life, with the average age of women in the U.S. being 51. Due to factors such as genetics, medical reasons, or autoimmune disorders, some women experience menopause at or before the age of 40 years. This is referred to as premature menopause, a condition that can be devastating to the young woman who is diagnosed with it.
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Other Body Changes Due to Menopause
Menopause is the time in a woman's life when her period stops. It is a normal change in a woman's body. A woman has reached menopause when she has not had a period for 12 months in a row (and there are no other causes, such as pregnancy or illness, for this change). Menopause is sometimes called, "the change of life."
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Night Sweats – How to Cool Off Those Menopausal Symptoms during Sleep
Night sweats are a common symptom of menopause, traveling hand-in-hand with the dreaded hot flashes. Often keeping their victims from achieving a good night’s rest, night sweats can quickly trigger a domino effect by raising stress levels and irritability. So how does one combat these pesky nighttime visitors? Is there any way of fighting off the demons known as night sweats?
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Menopause in Men – It Can Happen
Believe it or not, some doctors and researchers say that men, who think they are going through the proverbial midlife crisis, may actually be experiencing something much different--a male version of menopause.
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Kicking Up the Sex Factor During Menopause
One of the biggest hurdle women face during menopause is the loss of libido. Anywhere from 20% and 45% of menopausal women have reported a reduction in their sex drive.
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How Menopause Can Affect Your Sex Life
Menopause can bring with it a smorgasbord of ailments including headaches, insomnia, hot flashes, and moodiness. When you include loss of libido and vaginal dryness into the mix, there’s no surprise that some menopausal women simply aren’t in the mood.
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Helping your Man Understand Menopause
Menopause can prove mystifying to the male sex; women talking about hormone changes and hot flashes, night sweats and her yo-yoing weight. She doesn’t seem interested in sex at the moment and she’s been short-tempered and quick to fly off the handle at the slightest mistake. Is this the end of a marriage? Not at all… it’s simply menopause and, in order for men to understand it, women need to take the time to explain.
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Getting your Man to Understand Menopause
Let’s face it…men are generally not known for their vast understanding of the female body. They cringe at the mere mention of “female problems,” and just watch the men in a room scramble for cover if menstruation is mentioned. So, it is not surprising that getting your man to understand menopause takes some doing, but perhaps an informed man will be a compassionate one.
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Estrogen and Its Relation to Menopause
The onset of menopause signals the ending of a woman's reproductive cycle. Menopause actually begins after the women's last period. This event marks the culmination of several years of peri-menopausal changes during which hormones secreted by the ovaries (estrogen and progesterone) gradually decline. Peri- and menopausal symptoms vary considerably from person to person.
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Coping with your Menopausal Emotions
No one is sure what causes menopausal mood swings (often jokingly referred to as ‘a form of never-ending PMS‘), but the general consensus is that they are caused by hormonal imbalances. Menopause is when the body no longer produces eggs for fertilization, and this creates severe fluctuations in the levels of hormones within the body; progesterone, estrogen and androgens, all of these hormones help to control the levels of serotonin that is in the brain.
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Body Changes in Male Menopause
Although most people know that Menopause has generated a large population of women who have excessive rates of bone fracture and CHD, men also suffer from these conditions. The male menopause or Andropause is due to hypogonadism- low testosterone levels.
