Here Comes Menopause - Are You Ready?
Menopause is something that every woman would experience with symptoms that are sometimes totally mild and sometimes simply awful. Maybe puberty caught you by surprise as many parents fail to share the pertaining information with their teenage daughters for fear that they would not be able to handle questions about sex and related topics, but that was another time.
Presently, there is no excuse for you with menopause - there is so much information wherever you turn about menopause that it would be a shame if this too, would catch you unawares. Today, you should be totally appraised about its symptoms and possible treatments so the moment you identify any such symptom, you could calmly say to yourself, "here comes menopause, and I am ready".
Here Comes Menopause - The Signs That Tell It Is Near
There is a phase that precedes menopause, which is called perimenopause. This is a phase during which most of the symptoms that you would experience through menopause start developing. Since it is very early and the hormones are undergoing only mild fluctuations, the symptoms too, would be mild. Even so, if you knew what you are looking for, these symptoms would be like a broadcast saying, "here comes menopause" loud and clear.
Some of these symptoms include changes in regularity of the periods, tender breasts, night sweats and hot flushes, mood swings and depression, vaginal dryness, difficulty in applying your mind to something, sleep problems and water retention.
Here Comes Menopause - The Signs That Tell You It Has Arrived
You will know that you are going through menopause when you experience all the symptoms you found during the perimenopause period amplified by a few notches. Everything would be more pronounced and palpable.
The periods would become very erratic and alternate between next to nothing and heavy and prolonged bleeding; there would be wild mood swings often followed by acute depression; you would observe that your body thickens at the waist and you have sudden huge cravings for sweets; you are either totally put off by sex or find that you can think of nothing else but sex; you would feel constantly fatigued even when you did nothing; hot flushes would be highly uncomfortable and so on.
You want to still confirm whether all these symptoms are due to menopause, why no walk in a clinic and take the prescribed hormone test? This particular test looks into the hormonal balance in your body and would confirm whether or nor what you are experience is owed to menopause.
Awareness and information are your best tools in preventing the discomfort that some of these symptoms cause so when you say, "here comes menopause" you would be ready to meet the challenges it brings.
