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How can you tell if your in menopause?


I know part of it is hot flashes...but Ive been doing that already for years. im 44.

Hon, if you are having hot flashes, it doesn't necessarily mean menopause. Have you stopped having your period? Are you experiencing insomnia, night sweats or irregular and very heavy periods? Lots of things contribute to menopause, but it's usually not just the one symptom. ~
My doctor told me that you have to have gone without a period for a year. Hot flashes, irritability are signs or premenopause. There is lab work that can be done to check hormone levels to see if you are premenopausal or menopausal
If you begin to experience hot flashes, dizziness, heart palpitations, emotional uproar, sleep disturbances, night sweats, depression and/or headaches you may slip from feeling "in control" to the sense that things are beyond your control. The idea of controlling these unwelcome symptoms with drugs becomes very attractive, as we are conditioned to believe that menopausal changes are in some way considered an illness. It is possible to influence these changes more effectively with herbal alternatives that carry with them few, if any, side effects when considered carefully.

A hot flash at night is called a night sweat, which may be accompanied by feelings of anxiety or terror. A solution may be to keep a glass of water and a bottle of motherwort beside you at night, and take 10-15 drops and a swallow of water if a night sweat awakens you. Not everyone experiences hot flashes, and only some of those who do also experience night sweats. Many women, however, experience both.

Exercise directly decreases hot flashes by decreasing the amount of circulating LH and FSH, by nourishing and tonifying the hypothalamus, and by raising endorphin levels (which plummet with hot flashing). As little as 20 minutes three times a week may reduce flashes significantly.31 Other natural measures that address underlying reasons for hot flashes include diet, nutritional supplementation and plant-based medicines.
MY mothers periods went really heavy.HEr moods changed
she got hot flashes
she was overly emotional
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