(NC)-If you’re confused about the treatment options for your particular menopause symptoms, now there’s an authoritative guideline, an algorithm, for your doctor or health professional to use.
As estrogen declines in our middle years, the symptoms of discomfort vary greatly from woman to woman and often evolve slowly through a complex range, which if left unchecked, [...]

It takes a year after a woman has had her last period before the condition is called menopause, which is a word from the Greek language that actually combines month and terminate that literally translates to mean “the end of the monthlies.” This is a condition that usually affects a woman by the time she [...]

Women are just a bundle of emotions and hormones, especially when you hit puberty and again when you are going through menopause. These hormonal changes, particularly the levels of estrogen, can play tricks on your brain causing mood swings. Of course, the biggest mood swing of them all is depression and menopause can cause that [...]

Among the more common early menopause symptoms are night sweats and hot flashes as too changes that cannot easily are explained such as changes to the menstrual cycle, level of blood sugar, your becoming depressed for no apparent reason and being very irritable as well.
Another aspect to early menopause symptoms is that women may be [...]

The early signs of menopause also known as perimenopause can occur as long as ten years before the actual onset of full blown menopause. Basically, women in their late 30s up through the 40s can start the perimenopause cycle which is basically the reduction of the production of estrogen. Once the ovaries stop releasing eggs, [...]

Menopause is the time in a woman’s life when her menstrual cycle is ending and she is entering a new phase of her life. A woman is considered as being menopausal when she has not had her period for a full year or more, and it usually occurs naturally, most often after the age of [...]

Menopause has been the butt of many jokes not only from comedians but also from women themselves who are either going through it or negatively are anticipating it. The bottom line is that it all boils down to the fact that different bodies will exhibit different first signs of menopause. Some women will experience every [...]

Natural menopause occurs when the monthly cycle of ovulation comes to an end in a woman’s life. Menopause occurs because the ovarian supply of follicles and eggs declines sharply as a woman approaches her later years of life. So the onset of menopause is basically signifying the end of a woman’s fertility period, when she [...]

There are literally hundreds of different symptoms that most women experience when they go through menopause, but hair loss during menopause is often one of the most difficult. After all, a woman’s hair is often one of her most favorite features and so it is no mystery then as to why it can often be [...]

Menopause is considered to have begun once a woman’s menstruation has ceased for a period of one year or more, and it is a normal, naturally occurring part of life. Every woman has to go through menopause and she will usually experience it sometime around the age of forty, although many women experience menopause much [...]