Common Perimenopause Symptoms
As a woman reaches middle age, her world is not neatly defined by her ageing reproductive functions. But in order for her to understand all the issues which surround the menopausal experience it is best to gain as much knowledge to help broaden her perspective of the challenges and opportunities offered by the menopause. When it comes to understanding the menopause - when does it first get your attention? What are the symptoms of perimenopause? The answer to these types of questions differ between women. The menopause certainly doesn’t arrive through a grand entrance or via a big fanfare, there are no bright lights or a day and date for celebrating.
The early symptoms of perimenopause may become a reality for most women through a series of physical, mental and emotional changes. some of these may be subtle, some more dramatic, and the tend to merge, evolve, intensify, and fade over a period of weeks, months and years. Often perimenopause symptoms can be mistaken for stress - lack of sleep, forgetfulness, irritation and quick temper. You could be putting on weight even though you are still eating the same amount of calories, and doing the same amount of exercise.
You may recognise some of the symptoms described before, or maybe only one or two, and maybe a few different ones of your own. If some, or any, or this scenario seem familiar to you then you could be experiencing what is known as the perimenopause. This is the time preceding menopause - that is the cessation of all menstrual periods - when associated endocrinological, biological and clinical changes occur. On average, women become perimenopausal around age 47, and experience it for around 4 years. Some women will enter the peri menopause in their late 30s or early 50s, and it can last for anything from a few months to 8 or 10 years.
You will have no way of knowing precisely when or how you will begin to notice the changes which are announcing your forthcoming menopause. You are more likely to one day begin to start to join the dots of a number of odd symptoms and changes that will eventually add up to the fact that you are, indeed, moving towards the menopause. It is likely that you will have a difficult time accepting the idea that you are actually perimenopausal, but the realizations sometimes be a true relief. You are not really losing your mind or developing a strange disease. Your symptoms of perimenopause are perfectly normal.
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