Menopause

Many women feel very little symptoms apart from noticing that their periods gets scantier, fewer until they disappear all together. They may feel more sensitive or warmer but don’t feel overwhelmed by it. That is the ideal menopause that most women would wish for.

But it’s not always the case. Menopause is a bit like periods. You want them unoticed, pain free, stress free. But some women don’t have it that easy. While some women may experience few uncomfortable symptoms, some women may experience extreme, unbearable symptoms. Again, just like the periods.

The list of what women may experience during that period of their life is long: hot flushes, insomnia, inability to concentrate, depression, memory loss, headaches, anxiety, nervousness, sleep disruption, fatigue and irritability. But also intermittent dizziness, palpitation, nausea, constipation, diarrhoea, cold hands and feet and weight gain. Finally, the large reduction in oestrogen leads to changes in the lower genital tract. Therefore women tend to lose pelvic muscle tone, develop urinary incontinence, cystitis, vaginitis, and loss of libido.

So life can become, from one year to another, a nightmare.