Menopause is the physiological cessation of menstrual function for at least 12 months in the woman who previously was menstruating, due to the fall in female hormone levels as a result of the cessation of ovulation of the ovarian function. This marks the end of the reproductive phase of the woman.
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This is very important since there are women who don’t see menstrual periods and are not yet in menopause, the most common example is when the uterus has been removed surgically (hysterectomy preserving the ovaries) before menopause: no menstruation but there is also no menopause because the patient still Ovulating and your hormone production continues until eventually their levels are depleted and it enters the actual menopausal period due to aging, inevitable thing for us the mortals.
A particular case is surgical menopause: in this case the ovaries have been removed prematurely with or without the uterus so that one way or another will not be natural periods in the future and the patient will be in menopause immediately. The usual age of occurrence is around 50 years but it depends a lot of the familiar trend. Premature menopause is considered to one that begins before age 40, whether spontaneous or induced surgically.
Why is the menopause so important?
The problem with menopause is the deterioration that occurs on the health of women as a result of the almost total loss of female hormone production. Women depends on their hormones to fix calcium in bones, to maintain the conditions of humidity and vaginal trophism and lower urinary tract; needed in skin and scalp, prevent the masculinizing effect of male hormones that women also produce, maintain the stimulus on the mammary glands avoiding that they atrophy (good and bad), maintain libido or favor it, dan emotional stability, prevent vasomotor symptoms such as the “vaporones”, help to keep a lipid profile (cholesterol and triglycerides) Pro… and many others who have doubts or are missing by be demonstrated!
As you can see this is not game, female hormones are responsible for that woman is precisely that, a woman! Therefore, the woman begins to leave it be or feel such once menopause has been present for a long time.
Why complain about menopause when that is part of the life of the woman?
Advances in technology and the consequent prolongation of human life lead us to witness events that formerly did not see but must now face. Let’s be clear, for thousands of years when humans was lunch or dinner of any predator many women did not have time to see another lack of menstruation that weren’t for pregnancy (and that); with luck In addition, survival was 30-40 years in the best of cases, so for our standards, that people were dying in the prime of his youth.
By changing our environment, thanks to our intelligence, we live more and now we are witnesses of our aging and progressive deterioration. The elixir of eternal life has not yet been found (and hopefully to that I can never find it) but modern medicine and technological advances have allowed us to double our time of life on this earth so we must take advantage of all the resources that we to maintain an active, productive and happy life. Seen from another point of view, Dios (whatever that is for you), all of this scientific development allowed us to make us happier in our passage about his world.
We have the luck of being alive in this century!
What are the symptoms of menopause?
Loss of menstruation: absence of menstruation for a period equal to or greater than 12 months in the absence of any organic cause that explains it
Vasomotor symptoms: are the so-called calorones or vaporones of the face or head that towards the end of the day in a considerable number of women in their early years of menopause. They can be so severe that alter the lifestyle of a productive woman, especially if they are accompanied by profuse sweating. Many refer to feel the urgent need to put the head in the fridge or freezer, and many have done so…
Progressive loss of the smoothness of the skin: skin will become stunted and becoming ever more thin and delicate. It loses its moisture and wrinkles become apparent
Hair loss: hair has a greater tendency to fall and eventually a male pattern of hair loss can occur. Likewise, the effect of male hormones in ovarian induces the appearance of hair in area such as the Chin, bozo, or whiskers.
Psychological symptoms: irritability, nervousness, depression, insomnia, fatigue, preoccupation with aging and change of roles in the family and society.
Genitalia and sexuality: vaginal tightness, vaginal dryness, vaginitis and coital pain. Low libido. Urinary incontinence, genital prolapse by tissue atrophy, recurrent cystitis, etc.
Others: Nausea, flatulence, constipation, pain joints and muscles, weakness, apathy
Caution: we know that the lack of hormones is closely related to all these symptoms but sometimes there are other factors involved in its production, so I do not believe that hormones are the panacea and that taking them all will be resolved. They are very effective and I do not deny that they make you feel very good in some respects, but what I want to avoid is that you leave running to buy a pack of hormones without having been evaluated previously; You’ll see that it should be a negotiation between benefits and risks for its use.
This clarify it because it seems reading sensationalist to induce to follow a treatment regimen of many that exist; the menopause market is mil-millonario and I keep aside from advertising to maintain the intellectual and professional honesty. Generic recommendations have been supported in serious medical journals and global circulation.
What are the consequences of menopause on women’s health?
Osteoporosis: The most dreaded and fortunately promoted, is osteoporosis or loss of calcium from bones; cause of bone weakness and fractures that can be the first step leading to the death of a patient for complications associated with long periods of immobility or associated surgical Act of disabling
Ischemic heart disease, atherosclerosis: arterial injury in the case of the heart and brain can lead to angina pectoris, heart attacks and stroke can lead to alterations in blood lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides) profile. There are many other factors involved other than menopause.
Alzheimer’s: has been much said that deficiency of hormones could have relationship with the emergence of this disease but there seems to be sufficient evidence in this respect.
Hormone-dependent tissue atrophy: vulvo-vaginal atrophy, loss of female sex characteristics, uterine atrophy, skin disorders, fall hair, etc.
Is there a male menopause?
Yes, but it is not as marked as in women, in fact it is more gradual and “decay” is more slow. This is because the production of male hormones decreases gradually instead of abruptly as in the female. It is known as andropause, a term that some accepted and others are not.
What can you do in this respect?
For menopause as the ideal treatment is to restore what has been lost: the female hormones. If we want to treat just part of the symptoms or consequences we have multiple methods of hormonal and non-hormonal, more effective or less effective. Now, the ideal treatment, if it is that one can speak of something ideal in medicine, involves a multidisciplinary approach to the problem and try from several points that have proven to be effective.
The decision to continue treatment depends on the patient who has been reported regarding the benefits and risks of menopause in if same and treatments that are used to overcome their symptoms and prevent its complications
Some conservatives argue that if menopause is part of the aging process we should not take any action to counter it. This opinion is debatable, but it is a position that must be respected if the patient has decided to go down this road after having received adequate information. In opposition to this come the views of those who, considering the advances in medicine and the increase in life expectancy, take a more interventionist role with a view to attenuating the deleterious effect (deterioration) menopause exerted on women.
My opinion
If there is something good that has brought with it the advertising and commercial BOOM of menopause has been the stimulus so many women in this condition have left their homes, have taken a step to the front and left feel their voice, their right to be heard and considered dentr or a society (including the family) that up to little less than three decades locked up breeding unemployed women.
Yes, I believe that until age seventy still considered menopausal, an old, a junk, the older woman, a grandmother in functions, with little or no power or effect or activity within society outside or inside. Before this awakening, a menopausal woman had much risk of becoming formal grandmother, non-activity or discussion and productive exercise except those who had allowed in his home and in relation to their children, grandchildren, and husbands in aging.
These women, thanks to the advertising have been found have left behind their personal misfortunes have met with thousands of women on an equal footing, have determined that life doesn’t end by the absence of menstrual and disabling symptoms, and have for assistance and they have been hatched, they have begun a new life or they retook much of what had been left behind. They have become productive in his mature years, reunited their sexuality and their virtues and their ability to solve problems.
Is clear that the man is usually greater and that female deterioration became tangible quickly after the children and finally with menopause, but it is a thing of the past: with current resources hurried typically feminine deterioration has stopped and it has Since at the same time the man, this lost the primacy and its omnipotent character to split it with the woman who has at his side.
Women in senior or second late or as you want it to call it revived and now looks beautiful, radiant active and intellectually, socially and economically productive. Does exercises, cares, studying again, dresses well and removed the stigmas of the traditional grandmother obese, apathetic, grey in colour with aroma essence of old roses, to be filled with colorful and vital force.
What hormones have helped? Yes. What also plastic surgery and cosmetics have done? There is no doubt! But whatever the fundamental thing is that the essence of the woman changed for the better and built a unique place in the world for her, a place unknown to man and probably feared for him.
What hormones give breast cancer or breast pain or hypertension or risk of thrombosis? That of true, but have to ask yourself, what is my risk? Or is it that they intend to again become an amorphous female mass along with all my fellow human beings to enclose me again away from the light of the Sun and the world? Never! Tell me my risk I decide to do!
It should climb into the skin of a woman to contemplate the risk of complications with breast cancer (that’s if already have just by the fact of being alive and being a woman) and compare it with the benefits of hormones in your day to day of valuable person. I prefer a sunset in silence for fear of a risk that is not guaranteed will suffer or will take certain things tangible can make a proper and responsible treatment by my? Are we not exposed to us die at any time? At least you may be entitled to live well until my destination at my house. These are questions that you need to do.
What do you dream feminist? As you like it, but I wish my grandmother had lived in these times, I would have liked to see it with me, talking about serious and conflicting issues, I would have been able to take advantage of it much more. Would not have been my grandma but a very good and experienced friend and counselor, she changes not arrived on time, but if you are honoring me reading these lines, for you it is not. Live, his century, because it is fortunate to be in it.
Sometimes I wonder if it is that men are afraid of women to revive and be competition, right would be to leave them on and be one with them to make the road, shared, all more bearable and happy
Isn’t this new age, this new way of life wonderful? It no longer has to worry about their children, do not worry about your fertility or their contraceptive method, already fulfilled their missions now it’s up to you out of the middle ages start projects develop physically and intellectually.