Dec/110
Menopause Herbs & Menopause Remedies
Menopause relief may seem difficult, but with a few tips towards this, you may find the change easier to deal with than you thought possible. Menopause relief can be achieved when a woman is supplied with some vitamins especially Vitamin D and Vitamin B complex. Multivitamins may help in this way and are preferred by health care provider. Menopause relief does not have to come from synthetic hormone replacement therapy. If you are concerned about the side effects of HRT, consider the natural help with menopause our products can provide. Menopause remedies for mood swings are often sought after for women that are experiencing them. You may find yourself feeling overly sad or even very excited without any reason at all.
Female Menopause
Women aren’t getting any preferential treatment, and that goes double when our hormones are imbalanced. Aren’t you tired of night sweats – sluggish thinking – hot flashes – emotional rollercoaster rides – waking up and feeling as if you haven’t slept at all? Women who experience age-related energy problems and other age-related health problems due to an imbalance of female hormones can be greatly benefited by taking menopause herbs. Female menopause Rejuvenator also helps ease the well-known problems that are associated with PMS in younger women. Women who are experiencing female menopause hot flashes are often self-conscience and quite uncomfortable when a hot flash leads to profuse sweating. A woman may also feel confused, disoriented and may also feel sick to her stomach.
Women with sensitive skin may find patches cause irritation. If you notice any skin irritation, report it to your doctor. Women aren’t truly menopausal until they’ve had an absence of periods for 12 consecutive months. Symptoms and their severity vary from woman to woman. Menopause remedies will help to control the symptoms associated with menopause.
Hot Flashes Menopause
Hot flashes, mood swings, difficulty sleeping – these are some of the perimenopause symptoms you’ve been dealing with. Share your experiences, thoughts, frustrations and meditations on the life change you’re going through. Hot flashes become apparent, and many women begin to see the first signs of hormonal changes that will bring you into full menopause in a few more years. Hot Flash Freedom uses a patented technology to deliver its ingredients straight into your blood stream. With this unique, patented technology, all the ingredients safely enter your blood stream.
Hot Flash Freedom is one tried and true Menopause remedy / PMS formula that more than 2,000 health professionals nationwide have used to bring relief to women for more than a decade. These health professionals settle for nothing less than an all natural menopause remedies that work very well. You can safely and effectively sleep through the night without having drenching night sweats.
Fish, liver, brown rice, kale, asparagus, cucumbers, lamb, sesame oil, and safflower are good sources of vitamin E. Women who undergo menopause as the result of a hysterectomy can take estrogen alone. Women in countries with high intake levels of soy report far fewer problems with menopause symptoms especially hot flashes and night sweats. Researchers believe this can be attributed to the isoflavones in soy.
Menopause Herbs
Herbal menopause treatment from naturally occurring plants can dramatically reduce menopause symptoms and prevent diseases caused by the loss of oestrogen in the body. Oestrogen that occurs in plants is called phytoestrogen. Herbal remedies for menopause relief may include herbs and natural supplements to give relief from menopause and it may include Hen’s Egg Shell Calx, zahar mohra power, Terminalia chebula and Saraca indica herbs. The Saraca indica herb is a useful herb to decrease disorders from menopause. Herbal teas, and using onion, garlic and lemon instead of salt should help as well. One study at UCLA noted that garlic halted the advance of heart disease in post-menopausal women.
Menopsause herbs and herbal progesterone-like qualities are found in sarsaparilla, ginseng, licorice root, bloodroot, red clover, nettle leaf, nutmeg, damiana, turmeric, sage, oregano, thyme, and unicorn root. Herbs can be very effective in the prevention of illness, the improvement of symptoms or the treatment of mild problems. If you intend to use menopause herbs and are using them to complement your medical regimen, be sure to inform your doctor and pharmacist.
Aug/110
Menopause and Sex
Menopause heralds the start of a fabulous time in your life. It does not mean the end of your love life. By no means! Here we are talking about having great sex during and after menopause. It is not only perfectly wonderful to be sexy, flirty and erotic in your 50s and 60s, but you deserve to feel as emotionally and physically fulfilled as ever, in fact, more than ever before! Menopause is a transition into freedom from the monthly dirge, and any adverse symptoms can be handled quite well.
Our sexual appetites are not lost as we age; it is the image of ourselves as sexual sirens that changes for many women. It depends greatly on a woman’s upbringing, on what kind of programming she has been given since her early days. But whatever that may have been, now is the time to rediscover her power to be, do and experience the full flowering of her sexuality with wisdom and maturity.
The sexual/cultural revolution of the 1960s led to a change in attitudes towards sex, spirituality, feminism and many other aspects of self discovery. These same radicals, women and men, of the 1960s are now the boomers of today, still reshaping traditional ideas and attitudes to sex as they age. They are once more on the forefront of a sexual revolution that is pushing aside the boundaries of what is acceptable. In doing so they are giving themselves space to enjoy a deeper sense of intimacy and communication with their partners, and a more embracing acceptance of themselves as attractive, wise and loving people.
While for some their sex drive slows down as they age, and that is quite normal, it in no way means the fun stops, not a chance. Take time to relax and enjoy the freedom of sex without contraception, or simply use this time to become more intimate with your partner at other levels of closeness and insight.
They say a man needs sex first to make love meaningful and a woman needs love first to make sex meaningful. We need to find a sweet meeting place of understanding between the two to make our love-making mutually satisfying and joyous, regardless of age.
Sadly, many women passing through the menopause years and beyond continue to operate from the same set of memories, thoughts and feelings that have run their entire sexual lives. Their sexuality is kept separate from other aspects of their life and they cannot give themselves permission to express their sexuality freely and with expansive joy.
It is time to let go of this kind of outdated programming. Everyone has pre programming about sex, such as sex is for reproduction only; while sex may be for pleasure, do not have too much fun; sex is a sin, a need, a duty; you cannot have love without sex; a good wife always submits to her man, his needs are more important than hers, and the repressive list may go on. Why have we bundled sex within all these limiting beliefs?
The sexuality they talk about in their 50s and beyond, is the same sexuality of their youth and adult years, a sexuality informed by old thoughts and attitudes they have not cleared and brought to consciousness and feelings they have not integrated. If this is the case with you, it is time to have a deep re-think about the role of sex in your life, and the implications of your sexuality for every aspect of who you believe yourself to be. It is time to break out of the box of your self-imposed limitations and enjoy your sexuality with love.
Jan/110
Different Symptoms of Menopause
Following are the more common symptoms of menopause:
Changes in the menstrual cycle:
Aug/100
Mastering Menopause
Clinically speaking, menopause is a date. For those women who still have a uterus, menopause is defined as the day after a woman’s final period finishes. This date is fixed retrospectively, once 12 months have gone by with no menstrual flow at all. At this point a woman is considered to be a year into postmenopause, is considered to be infertile, and no longer needs to take into consideration the possibility of pregnancy.
In common everydayjargon however, the word “menopause” is usually not used to refer to one day, but to the whole of the menopause transition years. This span of time is also referred to as the change of life, the change, or the climacteric and more recently is known as “perimenopause”, (literally meaning “around menopause”).
The word menopause is also often used in popular parlance to mean all the years of postmenopause.
Perimenopause
In biomedicine, perimenopause is the term describing the menopause transition years. In women who have a uterus, perimenopause describes the years both before and after the final period
During perimenopause, the production of most of the reproductive hormones, including the estrogens, progesterone and testosterone, weaken and become more irregular, often with widespread and unpredictable fluctuations in levels. During this interlude, fertility diminishes, but is not considered to reach nil until the official date of menopause. This is however determined retroactively, 12 months after the last emergence of menstrual blood. Signs and effects of the menopause transition can begin as early as age 35, although most women who become aware of the transition do so about 10 years later, often in their mid to late 40s. The duration of perimenopause with noticeable bodily effects can be a few years, ten years or even longer. Thedefinitel duration and severity of perimenopause in any individual woman cannotat presenty be predicted in advance, or during the process.
In the perimenopause years, many women undergophysicaly changes resulting from hormonal fluctuation. The most well-known effect of menopause is the “hot flash” or “hot flush”, a sudden increase in bodywarmthe; the “flash” sensation in a “hot flash” occurs as the body temperature peaks and begins a rapid return to normal. Hot flashes can become so strong that they can raise the body temperature multiple degrees in a very short period of time and cause the sufferer to feel weak and break out in intense sweating. Despite the embarrassment to the woman, hot flashes are not considered unsafe by physicians. Although flashes are not harmful, they can be treated in an attempt to ease discomfort, using prescription medications such as hormone treatment, or SSRI medications, or by using over-the-counter plant estrogens and herbal remedies.
Other widespread effects encountered during the perimenopausal period include mood changes, sleeplessness, fatigue, and recall problems. Some of these complaints may not be allied to the actual hormonal fluctuations involved in menopause, but if this is indeed the case, not an adequate amount of research has been done to determine why some women in menopause describe these effects.
Even women who are free of any troublesome physical effects of perimenopause may nonetheless observe themselves suffering from psychological issues related tocollectivel perceptions of aging; these issues also lend themselves to medicinal treatment to lessen their overall bearing on a woman’s life.
One piece ofup to datet research shows that melatonin supplementation in perimenopausal women can produce a significant improvement in thyroid function and gonadotropin levels, as well as restoring fertility and menstruation and preventing the depression associated with the menopause
Premenopause
Premenopause is a word used to explain the years leading up to the last period ever, when the levels of reproductive hormones are already decreasing. During the menopause transition years, as the body responds to the rapidly changing levels of natural hormones, a number of effects may appear.
Not every woman experiences inconvenient levels of these effects, and even in those women who do experience strong effects, the range of effects and the degree to which they appear is very unpredictable from person to person.
Those effects that are due to low estrogen levels (for example vaginal atrophy and skin drying) remain present even after the menopause transition years are over; however, many of the effects that are caused by the extreme fluctuations in hormone levels (for example hot flashes and mood changes) usually disappear orrecovere significantly once the perimenopause transition time has been completed.
Both users and non-users of hormone replacement therapy identify lack of energy as the most frequent and distressing effect. Other effects can include vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes and palpitations, psychological effects such as depression, anxiety, irritability, mood swings, memory problems and lack of concentration, and atrophic effects such as vaginal dryness and urgency of urination.
All the various possible perimenopause effects are caused by an overall plunge, as well as dramatic but inconsistent fluctuations, in the absolute levels and relative levels of estrogens and progesterone. Some of the effects, such as formication, may be associated directly with hormone withdrawal.
Vascular instability
Hot flashes or hot flushes, including night sweats and, in a few people, cold flashes
Feasible but contentious increased risk of atherosclerosis
Migraine
Urogenital atrophy, also known as vaginal atrophy)
Thinning of the membranes of the vulva, the vagina, the cervix, and also the outer urinary tract, along with considerable shrinking and loss in elasticity of all of the outer and inner genital areas.
Itching
Dryness
Bleeding
Watery discharge
Urinary frequency
Urinary urgency
Urinary incontinence
Increased susceptibility to inflammation and infection, for example vaginal candidiasis, and urinary tract infections
Skeletal
Osteopenia and the risk of osteoporosis gradually developing over time
Joint pain, muscle pain
Back pain
Skin, soft tissue
Breast atrophy
Skin thinning and becoming drier
Decreased elasticity of the skin
Formication, a sensation rather like pins and needles, more specifically like ants crawling on or under the skin
Psychological
Mood disturbance
Irritability
Fatigue
Memory loss, and problems with concentration
Depression and/or anxiety
Sleep disturbances, poor quality sleep, light sleep, insomnia
Sexual
Decreased libido
Vaginal dryness and vaginal atrophy
Problems reaching orgasm
Dyspareunia or painful sexual intercourse.
Alternative therapies
Perimenopause is a natural stage of life. It is not a disease or a disorder, and therefore it does not consequentially require any kind oftherapeuticl treatment. However, in cases where the physical, mental, and emotional effects of perimenopause are difficult, and disrupt the everyday life of the woman experiencing them, alternative medical therapy may sometimes be appropriate and helpful.
Aug/100
Depression and Menopause
From the studies carried out it shows that between 8% and 15% of menopausal women suffer from Depression. This stage hit at most during the state of perimenopause which is the first stage that leads to menopause. Menopause stage is so hard and difficult to deal with since apart from dealing with your own problems you also deal with families and work problem which end up making your menopause unbearable.
Depression in menopause also does occur due to regular hormones in the body. These hormones are known to affect the mood center of the brain and level of estrogen does change through out the menopause period. When the level of these hormones drops, that is when you experience sadness and severe drop of moods which results to the problem.
Many women are at high risk of developing this problem during there menopause period. This is especially if they had suffered from it when they were at the age of 20 it is likely to reoccur. Also those who had gone through surgery are at more risk since surgery causes the drop of estrogen levels and increase anxiety symptoms. Also you should avoid smoking and unnecessary stress since it increases the possibility of getting depressed during that menopause stage.
During this age it is very necessary to seek medical help if you don’t want to feel bad all your life. There are several options that can be suggested to help you when you are going through with this depressing period. Estrogen therapy help in decreasing the level of estrogen which affects the mood change of the body. This therapy can positively change your mood swing especially when combined with an antidepressant.
Antidepressant medication is also known for treating mood swings by giving it a boost. This is done by increasing the amount of serotonin in the brain. Psychotherapy is another excellent way of fighting Depression. Combined with medical treatment is by help of social work’s and other medical assistance who guide you on how to make negative thoughts to positive thoughts.
By following this procedure during your worst moment in menopause, you will be able to leave a very peaceful life with no worry. If you still find problems on how to deal with your depression during this stage you will be better to seek a doctor’s opinion and help so as to tackle this problem and live a peacefully and healthy life.