Symptoms Of Menopause Will Differ From Woman To Woman

The normal menopause age for women is when they reach their fiftieth birthday and this condition which comes about due to a natural aging process causes the woman's body to undergo certain bodily changes that can also affect her outlook on life either positively or negatively. To be sure, when menopause sets in, the woman's ovaries cease to produce eggs and even though fifty is about the age when women normally enter the menopausal period, it can occur at just about any age.

Fortunately, the symptoms of menopause are not very severe except in about fifteen percent of all women and in fact it has been found that as many as a quarter of all women even go through life without experiencing any difficulties despite noticing that they have entered the menopause phase, while the remaining sixty percent will experience various degrees of difficulties in coping with their symptoms of menopause.

Frightening Symptoms

However, in a few instances the symptoms of menopause can be especially frightening and they can even cause an affected woman to suffer from memory loss and have difficulty in concentrating while there are also reported instances of women becoming mentally confused as a result of their symptoms of menopause.

In certain cases, the symptoms of menopause can even drive a woman into a crazed state, and in addition, it can even cause them to not remember things that any normal person would not have any difficulty remembering.

In any case, the most common of all symptoms of menopause is hot flashes that almost every woman will have experienced during menopause in which they become hot as well as extremely uncomfortable even though their surroundings can be quite cool and comfortable.

A totally different type of symptoms of menopause is mood swings as well as emotional bust-ups which can lead to some very testing times for others who feel that they are living in a high voltage atmosphere that could easily burn them up without warning or reason. Women with such symptoms of menopause will be prone to bursting out into tears at the drop of a hat and it really won't take much to disturb their emotional stability.

Other common symptoms of menopause include feeling depressed as well as becoming anxious and the reason why women feel depressed or anxious is because they cannot cope with their bodily changes, which typically manifests them in the form of ‘empty nest syndrome'.

Finally, insomnia too is a common symptom of menopause and it is also a factor that can lead to menopausal women to suffer from mood swings as well as anxiety and even depression. Also, weight gain is one more symptoms of menopause that should not be overlooked and the reason for this is that women like to eat their anxieties and fears away during the menopause period.