Menopause

First, seek the advice of your medical professional. Then: improve your diet by increasing your percentage of fresh, uncooked fruits & vegetables. Avoid all unnecessary drugs & medications. Increase your exercise and sunlight. Get a better sleeping schedule. Improve your weight (lose or gain as needed).

In conjunction with your physician, seek the most non-invasive solutions first - such as mild herbal remedies. Give yourself plenty of time to adopt any changes your physician recommends. Ask for referral to an endocrinologist or urologist if your physician cannot help you.

Seeking therapy can also help address emotional/psychological issues which might contribute.

Only when these preliminary methods are addressed should one seek medications and/or hormone therapy, i.e., testosterone.

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If she is an athlete or anorexic, she may stop getting her period when her body fat drops below a certain level. If she has never gotten her period ever in her whole life and she is about 18 or older, she should see a doctor because she may have a hormonal or chromosomal disorder.

To be menopausal, your period must have been absent for at least one year. After that, you are most likely menopausal and have a very slim chance that you will get pregnant.

Some of the symptoms pf perimenopause are: irregular menstrual periods, bloating, mood swings, hot flashes, sore breasts, and and erratic sleep patterns.

Not typically. If you are experiencing unexpected or unintended weight loss, please see your health care provider this week for an examination.

There can be many side effects of mint and menthol intake. These can vary due to the person. The most common of all side effects is probably that you can have unpleasent things happening the intestine area. It is not reccommended.

That are not many steps that you can take to delay menopause. Menopause is just something that happens to your body. You should try to stay as healthy as possible.

menopause signifies and end to a woman's fertility, however it can take a number of years to go through the premenopause and pregnancy is still possible. Menopause is only complete once there has been no period for twelve months at least.

That sounds like thrush to me. You can be itchy any where in the down there area including just where the hair is. It can look like nothing or can be red and have discharge. Its suprising how many people have it without knowing and how easy it is to catch. Sitting on a public toilet, sweating in ur undies, etc. There is also another thing called bacterial vaginosis which also has symptoms just like thrush. Usually the distinguishing feature between the two is thrush can smell yeasty and BV can smell fishy. Either way they are both easily cleared up but talking to ur doctor and getting a swab will clear up any concerns for you.

Yes it can. Though most people just get lighter periods. Some might have their period every other month. It is normal while on the pill.

If it is several years after menopause, pregnancy is unlikely. However, if you are still going through menopause, taking precautions would be wise.

Everything has a beginning and an end & Menopause is the end of the menstrual cycle of fertility

When hre child is born with the chromosomes

The most effective way to stop hot flashes is to reduce the amount of stress, caffeine, alcohol, spicy foods, and cigarettes from your life. The other good cure is to keep your house cooler at night to reduce the night sweats.

Women start growing breasts usually when they hit puberty, which would be about 10/11. Make sure you talk to your parent or guardian about developing and puberty and other sex education questions. You may need to start wearing a training bra or a padded bra.This is also the age when girls start to get their peroid. Make sure your carefull and if this happens to you make sure you inform the adult your with right away!

Has happened in extremely rare cases but don't count on it.

A common OTC herbal therapy for menopausal symptoms is black cohosh. It can be found in products such as Estroven®. There are also other OTC menopausal medications but ALWAYScheck the ingredients and ask a pharmacist if it is safe to take with your current medications. NEVER start an herbal medication without checking with a pharmacist FIRST!!!! There are a lot of interactions that most of the general public is not aware of. Estroven® helps address menopausal symptoms with unique formulas that include soy isoflavones, black cohosh, calcium and boron, vitamins E, B-12, B-6, other B-vitamins, and folic acid, and proprietary herbal blends to address specific symptoms Prescription options: If hot flashes are your problem, ask your doctor about Clonidine. It can reduce the symptoms of hot flashes but it can also decrease your blood pressure. Hormone therapy is also an option but should be considered carefully as it can increase the risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, blood clots, and many other problems. Estrogens (hormones) are available as tablets, creams, vaginal inserts, and patches. The will help decrease the symptoms of menopause but should not be taken long term. Hormone therapy should be re-evaluated every 6 months. Talk to your doctor before starting hormone therapy.

Women typically start to have hot flashes during their menopause. Since there is no clear consensus amongst the scientists regarding the cause of the hot flashes during the menopause, it is also unclear why some women don't get them at all while others do.

there may still be some eggs but once the estrogen plummets they are no longer viable & will be absorbed into the body. Early in life eggs are the healthiest & most viable. late in life eggs are notable for the high likely hood of contributing to birth defects. Which is yet another reason we have evolved the process of menopause to put us out of the baby making business as we get too old to make healthy babies or be around to take care of them.

Usually woman experience perimenopause and menopause (I call it PM&M for short!) beginning in their forties or fifties. Some women experience it earlier than 40. This is what we call premature menopause. Premature menopause can be due to genetic makeup, an illness, or medical procedure.

There is a lot of information out there about PM&M.

About every 4 weeks, a girl that is able to become pregnant has her period.

In front of this period, her body gets ready to attach a fertilized egg in the womb.

As the egg wanders down and is not fertilized, it will not attach.

When the body realizes that the egg did not attach, it gets rid of all preparations for the possible child. This is the actual period.

After the period, the cycle starts again to prepare for the next egg.

It is sort of a cellular safeguard, making sure that the conditions met for each egg is optimally safe and secure.

A crude explanation but mostly to the point.

Never heard any credible report on that. Vitamen E is generally a great addition for skin & blood health, so probably doesnt hurt.

The best thing I have found for menopause has been BHRT, Pellet therapy The Pellet therapy has been a GOD SEND! There isn't much talk on this board about it and it definitely goes against all the conventional wisdom of loading us up with more estrogen. If you can't think outside the box, don't even go see a pellet therapy clinic. If you can listen & are open to a better way, you should at least go.

Their philosophy won me over & it works for me so no hate mail please, I'm healthy & happy, that's all I care about.

* Their premise is that menopausal & post menopausal women, don't need supplemental Estrogen

* Their premise is that the worst days we have in our cycle are the days when our estrogen is the highest...PMS.

* The Dr at my clinic (a female!) even inelegantly called estrogen the B***H Hormone.. Like I said if you are too sensitive to listen, Do Not Go.

* Their premise is that pre-menopausal my body made testosterone & then converts it to estrogen & progesterone as my body needed it. They also say that since I haven't had a Hysterectomy it will still convert if I get testosterone!

* Their premise is that by giving testosterone & letting my body make what it needs, It would get me off the roller coaster & it did!

* The pills, patches & creams all spike your system because they hit you pretty fast, the pellets last 90 days & are very slow to dissolve & are absorbed from my fat buttocks. That happens slowly.

I had to leave my belief in the sacred estrogen and the Dr that had been my light & hope, but I later realized had also been the one that had sold me the ticket to the roller coaster..

I have now been taking Natural Hormone Pellet therapy for 3 years and the hot flushes are gone, joint pain gone, I sleep great & have energy for the grandkids & my sex drive is almost too much but that is hot too.