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EARLY symptoms
such as hot flushes, night sweats, headaches, palpitations, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, difficulty in concentrating and remembering.
INTERMEDIATE symptoms such as urinary problems. Individuals may experience the need to pass urine more frequently, maybe even having to get up in the night. They may well have a great sense of urgency to get to the toilet, fearful that if not they may well pass urine anyway. It may also burn or sting to pass urine.
Vaginal problems may also start to be experienced. Symptoms such as, vulval/ vaginal irritation, soreness, burning, dryness, and even bleeding. Whilst thrush infections occur quite commonly.
LATE symptoms are predominately those affecting the skeletal and vascular systems.
Osteoporosis (brittle bones) is a very common problem for women, especially in their post menopause years. This is mainly due to the fact that bone deteriorates more rapidly once oestrogen is no longer being produced.
Vascular problems, especially heart disease, increase dramatically in menopausal women.
This is mainly due to the adverse changes that occur in the fat levels of the blood in post menopausal women.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN TO YOU?
There are many potential symptoms that can occur when you become menopausal. There is no relationship between the severity of these symptoms and the problems of osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. It is imperative therefore for you to consider your individual risks, health concerns and quality of life. Only in this way will you be able to carefully balance the relevant issues and make an informed choice about how to manage your menopause.
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