explore the symptoms associated with menopause and what you can do about them.Description
Menopause happens when you haven’t had a period for 12 straight months and you aren’t pregnant or sick. It’s a normal part of aging.
Most women go through menopause in their 40s or 50s. But there is a lot of variabilities. About half of the women in the U.S. reach menopause before about age 52. Some women may go through “the change” earlier if they have had surgery to remove their uterus or ovaries or have had certain treatments for cancer.
You may start to notice changes months or years before you are in menopause. Some experience hot flashes and irregular periods. This time is perimenopause. Most women don’t know exactly when menopause will hit. Remember that symptoms vary greatly from woman to woman. Some women have no symptoms at all.
Night sweats. That’s is what many women call nocturnal hot flashes. With these vasomotor symptoms can come sleep disturbances. Difficulty sleeping for perimenopausal women is common:
The estimated prevalence of difficulty sleeping is up to 40 percent in the early menopausal transition, rising to 38 to 46 percent in the late transition.
Sleep studies demonstrate nocturnal hot flashes are more common in the first four hours of sleep. With an increasing volume of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in the second four hours of sleep, there can be suppression of hot flashes and associated awakenings.
In this e-book, we’ll explore the symptoms associated with menopause and what you can do about them.
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