Menopause symptoms warm flashes etc.?

Are menopause symptoms felt everyday or when you would have normally gotten a period

Menopause is a stage of life for women that occurs as the ovaries stop producing estrogen, causing the reproductive system to gradually cease to function. As the body adapts to the changing levels of natural hormones many symptoms become apparent such as; hot flashes, night sweats, palpitations, hot hands and feet, increased depression, anxiety, irritability, mood swings and lack of concentration. Other symptoms include vaginal dryness, hair dryness, and urgency of urination. These symptoms don't necessarily appear only the time when you have your period. Eventually, woman will experience increasingly scanty and erratic menstrual periods ending in a cessation of a menstrual cycle.

Menopause can last anywhere from a mild six month transition, to a turbulent 5 year ordeal.

In western culture, we are seeing a rise in early menopausal symptoms. Clinically, this begins with a drying of the skin and hair. Menstrual flow becomes slightly irregular and increasingly less blood flows each month. What was once a regular twenty eight day cycle can become thirty, then thirty five days signalling the early stages of menopausal symptoms. Often with this irregularity of menstrual periods comes either a lack of groundedness in emotional states, or a lack of ability to concentrate. Insomnia can also begin to appear, usually either as a difficulty falling asleep as heat and irritability are present in the evenings, or as dream disturbed sleep leading to the inability to fall back asleep again, often with hot flashes at night.

Looking at the symptoms of menopause, we see an increase in the infrequent symptoms mentioned above in "early menopause symptoms." All of the symptoms become more pronounced, and every women can show a different pattern of the following symptoms:

Physical menopause symptoms:
- hot flashes - usually begins in the evenings, but then becomes more invasive as they can move into the day time as well.
- palpitations - again, typically experienced more in the evening during the early stages, but then quickly these symptoms can extend into the day time as well.
- night sweats
- hot hands and feet
- irregular and scanty menstruation
- dryness of the skin and hair
- vaginal dryness
- urgency of urination

Emotional menopause symptoms:
- increased depression
- emotional instability
- anxiety
- irritability
- mood swings
- lack of concentration

ya it has been felt everyday or some of the days after the women reaches certain age limit say normally after 50.The average age of women experiencing the onset of menopause is 55 years old but it can happen during the ages 45 to 55. However, onset may be at age 40 which is considered as early menopause or 60 years which is called as late menopause.

I think it comes and goes as it pleases. Not everyday thought...that would be torture!