Menopause is a state which most of the middle age women start
dreading. At around 45-55, sometimes earlier, a woman's ovaries run out of eggs. At the same time, the ovaries stop making the female hormones - oestrogen and progesterone - which greatly influence a woman's health and personality.
- Withdrawal symptoms are experienced. The most obvious is that periods become irregular, and then stop.
- For 80 per cent of women, their temperature control system goes on the brink, causing hot flushes and sweat.
- Feelings of listlessness, tiredness and irritability become common.
- Feeling the various signs of ageing, including aches and pains, sudden wrinkles, dry hair and so on, will also increase.
- Post-menopausal women are at greater risk of bad health in old age.
- Osteoporosis (brittle bones), heart attacks and strokes are all common problems.
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