What are the symptoms of severe menopause?

Menopause is a stage in life that every woman needs to go through. During menopause, women's bodies, minds and mentality are prone to changes. During severe menopause, women are often prone to irregular menstruation or menstrual disorders. At the same time, their endocrine system is prone to become abnormal, the body's estrogen level will gradually decrease, and their emotions will easily fluctuate.

What are the symptoms of severe menopause?

1. Menstrual disorders: It is the most common and prominent symptom in menopausal women. Menstruation is often delayed, sometimes only occurring once every few months, and the amount of menstruation gradually decreases. When estrogen becomes less and less and can no longer cause changes in the endometrium, menstruation stops, which is called menopause.

2. Hot flashes: It is one of the main characteristics of menopause. Some women will experience hot flashes, flushing, sweating, dizziness, and palpitations during menopause due to the decrease in estrogen levels and blood calcium levels. The duration of hot flashes can be one or two minutes or 12 to 15 minutes.

3. Neurological and mental disorders: Some women have obvious fluctuations in blood pressure and may have emotional instability, irritability, personality changes, memory loss, etc.

4. Cardiovascular and lipid metabolism disorders: Coronary heart disease and diabetes may occur.

5. Degeneration of the musculoskeletal system: pain in the waist, back, and limbs occurs, and some women develop frozen shoulder and cervical spondylosis.

How many years does menopause end?

It usually takes 3-10 years. Menopausal syndrome is a series of symptoms caused by a decrease in estrogen levels. Menopausal women, due to ovarian hypofunction, hyperpituitarism, secrete excessive gonadotropin, causing autonomic nervous system dysfunction, resulting in a series of symptoms of varying degrees. Menopause can be divided into natural menopause and artificial menopause. Natural menopause refers to the exhaustion of ovarian follicles, or the loss of response of the remaining follicles to gonadotropins. The follicles no longer develop and secrete estrogen, and cannot stimulate the growth of the endometrium, leading to menopause.

Changes in the menstrual cycle are the earliest clinical symptoms of perimenopause. There are three types:

1. The menstrual cycle is prolonged, the menstrual volume decreases, and finally menopause occurs.

2. Irregular menstrual cycle, prolonged menstrual period, increased menstrual flow, even heavy bleeding or continuous bleeding, which then gradually decreases and stops.

3. Sudden cessation of menstruation is less common. Because the ovaries do not ovulate, estrogen levels fluctuate, making endometrial cancer more likely to occur. For patients with abnormal bleeding, a diagnostic curettage should be performed to rule out malignant transformation.

4. Vasomotor symptoms, mainly manifested as hot flashes and sweating, are manifestations of unstable vasomotor function and are the most prominent characteristic symptoms of menopausal syndrome. It can occur in about 3/4 of women who experience natural menopause or artificial menopause. Hot flashes start in the chest, move to the head and neck, and then spread throughout the body. In a few women, hot flashes are only confined to the head, neck, and breasts. Patients experience burning sensation and redness of the skin in the area of ​​the flush, followed by explosive sweating. The duration varies from a few seconds to several minutes, and the frequency of attacks ranges from several times to 30 to 50 times a day. It is easily triggered at night or under stress. This vascular instability can last for 1 year, sometimes up to 5 years or longer.

Women should pay attention to their emotions during menopause and not put too much pressure on themselves. Try to participate in more relaxing activities, such as going out for a run. Running can relax the whole person and improve the body's immunity, which is also very helpful in fighting diseases.