This document discusses 34 common menopause symptoms that millions of women experience. It explains that while menopause is a natural process, many women today experience symptoms much earlier than the average age of 51 due to hormone imbalances, lifestyle factors, and other causes like hysterectomies. Taking an online test can help women determine if their symptoms are related to hormonal issues and learn about treatment options.

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34 Menopause Symptoms - Are You Suffering From One Or More Of These?
by: Olinda Rola
34 menopause symptoms? Really? It is a logical question to ask. After
all, millions of women are experiencing one or more of the 34 menopause
symptoms right now! What is going on? We all remember a grandmother or
older aunt, how they made the transition into menopause. The so-called
change will happen, but something tells us that experiencing many of the
symptoms of menopause as early as ages thirties or forties is not normal.
First, here is a list of the most common 34 menopause symptoms. Take a
moment to consider each one, as some are subtle and at first glance may
appear to have no relation to being menopause symptoms:
1 - Aching joints and muscles
2 - Allergy symptoms
3 - Breast tenderness

2. 4 - Chronic fatigue and morning sluggishness
5 - Cold or tingling hands or feet
6 - Craving sweets, caffeine, carbohydrates and unstable blood sugar
levels
7 - Depression, anxiety and mood swings
8 - Dizziness, lightheadedness
9 - Dry, thin or wrinkly skin
10 - Endometriosis
11 - Facial hair growth
12 - Fibrocystic breasts
13 - Hair loss, thinning hair
14 - Headaches, migraines
15 - Heart palpitations
16 - Heavy or light periods
17 - Hot flashes
18 - Incontinence
19 - Irregular periods
20 - Irritatibility, inability to handle stress
21 - Lack of concentration, foggy fuzzy thinking, memory lapses
22 - Leg cramps
23 - Low metabolism
24 - Lower sex drive, loss of sex drive
25 - PMS and menstrual cramping
26 - Night sweats
27 - Osteoporosis
28 - Ringing or buzzing in ears (tinnitus)
29 - Sleep disturbances, insomnia
30 - Spotting, light bleeding

3. 31 - Symptoms of hypothyroidism with normal T3 and T4 levels
32 - Uninary tract and yeast infections
33 - Uterine fibroids
34 - Water retention and unexplained weight gain, especially in hips,
waist and stomach
Menopause is a natural process for a woman, not an illness. As a woman
ages, there will be an expected slowing and ultimately shutdown in the
reproductive cycle and system. This is normal. However, most of the 34
menopause symptoms are indications of underlying hormonal imbalance or
damage to the body from poor eating habits, stress, obesity and other
factors. Millions of women in the industrialized countries experience one
or more of these 34 menopause symptoms many years before the normal age
of menopause, which is about 51 years of age.
Why? There are several reasons. Women often put tremendous demands on
their bodies, much more stress than it was designed to handle, and then
do not give it the support it needs. Women have demanding and stressful
careers. There are family responsibilities. The relationship with the
spouse or partner may not be the best. Aging parents can add to the
burden. All of these and other responsibilities are cumulative in the
toll they take on the body and health of a woman.
And at the same time, the womans body may not be receiving the support it
needs to function as it was designed to do. Poor eating habits, lack of
exercise, obesity, excess caffeine and alcohol add to the problem instead
of helping the body cope with the demands placed on it. This lack of
balance between the demands made versus support given contributes to many
of the 34 menopause symptoms.
Then there is the issue of the menstrual cycle and hormone production in
the body. In the normal menstrual cycle and a healthy woman, estrogen is
the dominant hormone that is produced for the first 10-12 days following
the previous menstrual flow. If ovulation occurs, ovulation then signals
the female body to produce progesterone, which happens for the next 12
days or so. If pregnancy does not occur during ovulation, progesterone
and estrogen levels will drop at around day 28, allowing menstruation to
begin. However, if you do not ovulate, you will not produce progesterone
that month. This event, called an annovulatory cycle, is a typical
occurance today for women even 10 to 20 years before the normal age of
menopause. This leaves the woman with an excess of estrogen and a
deficiency of the vital hormone progesterone which can only be produced
if ovulation occurs.
Many women in their thirties or forties are actually having fewer
ovulations, creating hormone imbalance, resulting in many of the 34
menopause symptoms. And once ovulation ceases at menopause, progesterone
levels fall to virtually zero. At the same time, estrogen is still being
produced, again leading to hormone imbalance and the resulting symptoms.
If a hysterectomy has happened, surgical menopause means the woman no

4. longer produces progesterone.
Besides the problems created by missed ovulations or hysterectomy, excess
estrogen is regularly obtained from other sources. Birth control pills,
household chemicals and pesticides, certain foods that have been sprayed
or given chemicals and many construction materials used in homes are all
sources of unhealthy estrogen. Doctors call this hormone imbalance
condition where excess estrogen exists - estrogen dominance. What are the
symptoms of estrogen dominance? The symptoms are nearly the same as the
34 menopause symptoms!
When your estrogen and progesterone hormones are balanced, you feel more
alert and energetic. And balancing family, career, stress and your own
needs becomes much easier to do, like it was when you were younger.
How can a woman tell if the symptoms being experienced are because of
hormone imbalance? One easy and effective way is to take an online test
for early signs of menopause and the 34 menopause symptoms. Used daily in
their practice by a leading womens health clinic, the health test takes
just a few minutes online and the test is free. By taking the clinic
health test, you can find out more about your health, symptoms you have,
what the symptoms are telling you and what to do about it. Take the
online hormone health test and read more about hormone imbalance,
estrogen dominance symptoms, hysterectomy side effects and
physician-recommended treatments for premenopause symptoms and the 34
menopause symptoms.
Copyright 2005 InfoSearch Publishing
About the author:
Olinda Rola is President of InfoSearch Publishing and webmaster of
http://www.safemenopausesolutions.comwhere you will find
physician-recommended natural treatments for premenopause and menopause
symptoms. Visit the website and learn more about ways that really work
for improving health.
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