The majority of women experience bothersome symptoms postmenopause (e.g., hot flushes, vaginal symptoms). Estrogen receptor agonists remain the most effective options for ameliorating menopausal symptoms. However, use of hormonal therapies has declined in the wake of issues raised by the Women's ...
Menopause is often defined as when awoman has not had any vaginal bleeding for a year.Women experience physiological changes in responseto cessation of their ovarian function. Symptomsassociated with menopause include hot flushes (orflashes), vaginal atrophy, and, for some women, moodlability. With...
Discover how menopausal hormonal imbalances cause headaches and raise blood pressure, and learn how to regulate these symptoms. Menopause and Migraine Headaches A common symptom of menopause is increased severity and frequency of headaches and often debilitating migraines. Learn more here.More...
Women of all ages experience hormone changes. As hormones regulate key functions of a woman's body, hormonal imbalance can create a whole host of symptoms.
estrogen and progesterone. The drop in these hormones in the body leads to various symptoms, such as insomnia, hot flashes, night sweats, headaches, joint pain, weight gain, anxiety and difficulty concentrating. Is your physical and mentalhealth affected by hormonal changes associated withmenopause?
As the symptoms of menopause are related to estrogen deficiency, it is no surprise that hormone therapy is the most effective treatment (1). However, women who have had estrogen-sensitive cancers should avoid treatment with hormone therapy. Many women not afflicted with cancer also choose not to...
Hormonal interventions include a variety of oestrogen or oestrogen/progestogen regimes. Non-hormonal treatments of flushes include exercise, paced respiration and psychotherapy. After the menopause vaginal atrophy and some urinary symptoms respond to local oestrogen and vaginal dryness in also prevented by ...
Men can experience memory loss during the early stages of andropause, which is often referred to as the male menopause, even though it doesn’t work in quite the same way as menopause does. (Testosterone production starts to naturally decrease around the onset of andropause.)Studies show that ...
Depressive symptoms contributed the most, to the explained variance on scores on the menopausal subscales. Conclusions: Women during menopause presenting several complaints, other than vasomotor origin might be suffering from underlying depression which makes it questionable to prescribe HRT for the latter...
Heart palpitations and irregular heartbeats called arrhythmia can be symptoms of perimenopause or menopause, but they aren’t talked about much so when they strike it can be terrifying. According to research in the Journal of Women’s Health, nearly 50 percent of women, ages 42 to 62, who ...