In real life, many women mistakenly believe that menopause is menopause. In fact, in the clinical view, these are two completely different medical concepts, and the two cannot be confused.
Because menopause refers to the transition period of gonadal function from the beginning of decline to the complete loss of gonadal function after a woman enters a certain age, it includes three stages: premenopause, menopause and later period.
In 1994, the World Health Organization had changed the medical name of menopause to "perimenopause". The reason why women experience perimenopause is because the ovaries are different from other internal organs, and they begin to develop at the age of 12-15 years old, and gradually have ovulation and endocrine functions, but this function is not lifelong.
When a woman enters the age group of 45-55 years old, the ovarian function will gradually decline, and this stage lasts about 2-4 years, which is what the clinic calls premenopausal period. As ovarian function declines further, the follicles in the ovaries are completely exhausted, or the follicles completely lose their response to gonadotropins, and women will usher in menopause.
Usually, if you have the following three symptoms in the near future, it is likely to be a manifestation of menopause:
1. Mood and mood changes
Premenopausal and menopausal women, due to the obvious lack of estrogen in the body, often affect the nervous system and mental state, resulting in obvious changes in their mood and mood.
For example, women who were originally cheerful before suddenly appeared irritable, anxious, anxious, upset, depressed and other symptoms, or their personalities became more and more irritable, often moody, etc., which are typical menopausal symptoms and the most common manifestations of menopausal syndrome;
2. Menstrual changes
After entering the perimenopause period, the most typical symptom of women is a change in the menstrual cycle. As mentioned above, menopause is because of the aging of ovarian function, affected by abnormal egg discharge, abnormal hormonal changes, etc., and the menstrual cycle of women will also change significantly, which is the earliest clinical symptom of perimenopause.
However, the manifestations of the menstrual cycle in women are very different in the clinic, and some women show prolonged menstrual cycle intervals, decreased menstrual volume, and final menopause.
Some women show irregular menstrual cycles, significantly prolonged menstruation, and increased menstrual blood volume before gradually decreasing or stopping. There are also a very small number of women whose menstruation will suddenly and completely stop;
3. Symptoms of hot flashes
In addition to changes in the menstrual cycle, the vast majority of women will have symptoms such as hot flashes and sweating during the perimenopause period, which is actually a symptom induced by abnormal vasodilation and contractile function.
When symptoms are onset, women often feel a sudden burst of hot flashes in their chests, which rush into the head and neck and then spread throughout the body.
In areas where flushing occurs, the skin will feel hot and itchy, and there will be obvious signs of redness on the surface of the skin, followed by a lot of sweating in the woman, after which the symptoms disappear.
Usually, hot flashes occur at night and last for tens of seconds or minutes at a time. This vascular instability can last about 1 year, and sometimes it takes longer to resolve.
If you have recently repeated the above three symptoms, it means that you have entered menopause and are about to usher in menopause.
What needs to be emphasized here is that menopause is a process that every woman must go through, it is actually a symptom of aging, and complete menopause will not affect health, so female friends should relax their hearts and face it optimistically and cheerfully.