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Facts You Need About Sleep Loss – Key Menopause Information

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:23:11 +0000

John Russell asked:

In our ongoing endeavor to cover Menopause Symptoms, this paper’s subject is SLEEP DISORDERS.

If you’re waking up a lot at night, tossing and turning, and generally suffering with insomnia, it might be connected with menopause. When you begin going through menopause, you may find that your sleep is less and less restful, if you sleep at all. This is one of the most annoying menopause symptoms.

What are Menopause Sleep Disorders?

These disorders include any ailment in a person’s normal sleep patterns. If they reach a severe intensity, they can seriously affect your mental and emotional health.

Insomnia is the most frequent complaint, striking up to 56% of women as a menopause symptom. Some women may also develop restless leg syndrome, snoring, or sleep apnea. When women go through menopause, sleep is less restful. Typically, the frequency of insomnia doubles from the amount you had before you entered menopause. Research also indicates that women begin to experience restless sleep as many as 5-7 years before entering menopause.

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What Causes Menopause Sleep Disorders?

There are two causes—psychological and physical.

Psychological—Emotional daily stress, overwork, and fatigue can be a cause. When these factors combine and get out of control, emotional stability is disrupted. This can lead to an unbalance of your bodily functions, causing metabolic changes that may lead to sleep disorders. Usually these are temporary and sleep disorders top when the stressful time ends.

Physical—Menopause sleep disorders are mainly caused by unbalanced hormone levels. Estrogen declination causes a variety of physical side effects including a reduction in serotonin (chemical in the brain), which is used to create melatonin (sleep hormone). Without a balanced level of estrogen, the body is not able to produce the right amount of serotonin or melatonin. This is why maintaining a balanced estrogen level is important for control and prevention.

What To Do About Menopause Sleep Disorders?

First, you must determine if your problem is psychological or physical.

Psychological—Menopause sleep disorders caused by stress, overwork, and fatigue should be treated by scheduling rest and relaxation time, as well as integrating an exercise program in your daily routine. Keep in mind that in most cases a combination of psychological and physical treatments is the best option for managing menopause sleep disorders.

Physical—Because menopause symptoms are generally caused by low hormonal levels, a hormonal balancing program is the best solution. There are several ways to manage menopause sleep disorders, but the best way is by combining therapies such as “lifestyle approaches” and alternative medicine. We all know about the problems with HRT, therefore, you will want to consider using a natural progesterone cream to balance your estrogen level. In summary, starting with perimenopause symptoms, sleep loss is a key indicator menopause has started. Menopause information generally describes low hormone levels as the root cause. While there are side effects of natural progesterone cream, using natural hormone replacement therapy is a good alternative to the more conventional HRT and the high risks associated with it.

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admin — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:18:42 +0000

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Post Menopause-When will it come

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:04:45 +0000

Post Menopause technically starts one year after your last menstrual cycle. It is a time that is welcomed by most women. The hot flashes, nights of insomnia, food cravings and migraines are a thing of the past. What does the transformation from menopause to post menopause signify? Simple. Your crazy days are a thing of the past. No more huge swings of hormone levels. Congratulations and enjoy your life.

Goodbye Menopause, Hello Post-Menopause

Congratulations! You’ve survived menstruation, maybe pregnancy, and have now completed menopause. Post-menopause is usually when you haven’t had a period in a year. For some women, they go into post-menopause at only six months of no periods. Some women may need more than a year and a half before their final flow. Every woman is different. But post-menopause can be a time of freedom from the cycles of the reproductive organs. It’s a sort of return to childhood.

I Can’t Wait

It can be hard to tell f you’ve moved from menopause to post-menopause. The body always seems to try to surprise you. If you had a dollar for every time you heard a doctor say, “I’ve never seen this before”, you could buy your own island. Even if all of the other symptoms of menopause have gone for years – the hot flashes, the mood swings, the food cravings, the headaches, the insomnia, whatever you had — you could still have a period and still be considered menopausal.

Post-menopause begins a year after your last period. But was your last period your last period? It can be hard to tell. Was that spotting I had last month a period or something else? Unless you had a hysterectomy, it can be hard to determine when your last period was. This is normal.

The only somewhat reliable medical test to determine if you are, indeed, into post-menopause is called an FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) level blood or urine test. This checks how much of each hormone is still left in your body. This is a controversial test as it doesn’t seem to be accurate for a lot of women, especially if they were or are still on any kind of hormone replacement therapy.

One of the big advantages of post-menopause is that it usually is no big deal when you start. It doesn’t require a huge change of lifestyle. If you’re not sure if you are still in the least bit fertile, don’t take any chances. Still use birth control.

Party On

So, you have no more eggs for babies. So what? You are still a worthwhile and valuable member of society. Many women love their post-menopause years. They have more freedom to be themselves, to pursue hobbies and volunteer work because they don’t need to worry about keeping children or a boyfriend safe. The sex drive doesn’t go entirely away during post-menopause, but your knowledge of sex leads usually to better quality sex, if less quantity. Your sex life is only a fraction of what you are.