Factors That Can Affect A Woman's Menopause Age
All women, when they attain a certain age, will experience menopause. In effect this is basically a normal stage in every woman's life, even though it will also result in changes occurring in their body's physical functions and thus lead to certain amount of distress in their minds. Menopause can best be handled if a woman takes the trouble to first of all understanding what the condition is and why it occurs. The fact of the matter is that there are many myths as well as untruths being spread with regard to menopause, which can even makes some women mistakenly believe that their ovaries will actually disappear because of their menopausal condition.
Early Thirties To Forties
To be sure, a lot of research has been done to ascertain what is the most common period in the lives of women that can be termed as their menopause age and these research findings seem to point in the direction that the earliest menopause age in most women is believed to be their early thirties as well as during their forties. Of course, there are also instances when this age is a lot earlier. When menopause occurs at an early age it may be attributed to the fact that the affected person was under excessive stress that caused the bout of menopause to begin sooner than is normal.
Another aspect to determining a woman's menopause age is that once menopause begins, it will affect her for as long as a decade and the effects can be experienced even when women have entered their middle fifties. Thus, it would not be wrong to assume that on an average, a woman's menopause age is anywhere from her middle forties to the middle fifties.
As a matter of fact, all of the different conclusions that are made regarding a woman's menopause age do not have any scientific backing. Whatever age is considered as being a woman's menopause age is arrived at more out of applying the rule of thumb rather than through use of indisputable facts and figures. Sometimes a woman's menopause age can also be arrived at by taking into account that person's mother's menopause age since it has been found that a woman will almost always experience menopause at around the same time that her mother herself experienced menopause.
What's more, things such birth control pills, ethnic background, number of offspring and even age at which a woman begins menstruating do not affect a woman's menopause age. Though in case of a woman that smokes, cigarette smoking can affect the menopause age by actually bringing it forward.
There are also three stages of menopause that include peri-menopause, actual menopause and post-menopause and ultimately the age at which each of these stages are reached by a woman will help determine the ultimate menopause age of that person.
