34 menopause symptoms

34 menopause symptoms

1. Hot flashes, flushes, night sweats and/or cold flashes, clammy feeling (related to increased activity in the autonomic / sympathetic nervous system) Not this can be dealt with.  read the following. How to stop night sweats

2. Bouts of rapid heartbeat (related to increased activity in the autonomic / sympathetic nervous system) this activity will cause the blood to rush to the surface of the skin much faster and cause the skin to heat up faster as well. This in turn will cause the temperature regulation system of our body to start to release sweat in order to cool the skin down. There is a simple way to keep the skin cooler so the sweating will not start.

3. Irritability, anger, rage  

34 menopause symptoms

4. Mood swings, sudden tears, happy one moment, depressed the next, crying when nothing

5. Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats). See our sponsor for help in this area

6.   Irregular periods: shorter, lighter or heavier periods, flooding, and phantom periods.

7. Loss of libido (sex drive).

34 menopause symptoms

8. Dry vagina (results in painful intercourse)

9. Crashing fatigue.

10. Anxiety, feeling ill at ease.

11.  Feelings of dread, apprehension, and doom (includes thoughts of death, picturing one's own death).

34 menopause symptoms

12.  Difficulty concentrating, disorientation, & mental confusion.

13.  Disturbing memory lapses.

14.   Incontinence -- especially upon sneezing, laughing: urge incontinence (reflects a general loss of smooth muscle tone).

15.  Itchy, crawly skin (feeling of ants crawling under the skin, not just dry, itchy skin called "formication")

16.  Aching, sore joints, muscles and tendons. (may include such problems as carpal tunnel syndrome).

17. Increased tension in muscles

34 menopause symptoms

18.  Breast tenderness.

19.  Headache change: increase or decrease.

20.  Gastrointestinal distress, indigestion, flatulence, gas pain, nausea.

21.  Sudden bouts of bloat. Acid reflux and heartburn are very common during perimenopause. Treat them as you would if you weren't going through menopause.

22.  Depression (has a quality from other depression, the inability to cope is overwhelming, there is a feeling of a loss of self.  Natural hormone therapy, ameliorates the depression dramatically).

23.  Exacerbation of any existing conditions. 3

34 menopause symptoms

24.  Increase in allergies. Many people don't realize that histamine levels are affected by hormone levels. Women can develop wheezing, coughing and a host of respiratory problems. This generally disappears as the hormones level out once a woman becomes menopausal.

25.  Weight gain. (is often around the waist and thighs, resulting in "the  disappearing waistline" and changes in body shape.)

26.  Hair loss or thinning, head or whole body, increase in facial hair.

27.  Dizziness, light-headedness, episodes of loss of balance. 

28.  Changes in body odor

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29.  Electric shock sensation under the skin & in the head ("take the feeling of a rubber band snapping against the skin, multiply it (exponentially, sometimes) radiate it & put it in the layer of tissues  between skin & muscle & sometimes a precursor to a hot flash.")

30.  Tingling in the extremities (can also be a symptom of B-12 deficiency, diabetes, or from an alteration in the flexibility of blood vessels in the extremities.)

31. Gum problems, increased bleeding.

32.  Burning tongue

33.  Osteoporosis (after several years)

34. Brittle fingernails, which peel & break easily.