Menopausia

The Menopause Web App - Provides timely, up-to-date and easy-to-understand information about what menopause is, its symptoms and causes.

Menopause marks the time twelve months have passed since your last menstrual period.

This term comes from the Greek “mens” (monthly) and “pausi” (cessation).

It can be said that menopause includes from the end of the fertile age to the beginning of senile age, although this statement is not entirely correct, since it would be appropriate to speak of climacteric.

It is important to differentiate climacteric and menopause, because they are not exactly the same thing.

Climacteric is a process that can last several years and is comprised of different phases or stages; instead, menopause refers only to the last menstruation.

Hormonal balance is the normal state in women, when menopausal symptoms appear and hormonal imbalances occur, it is an abnormal state, which generally produces unpleasant and overwhelming symptoms such as:

• Hot flushes.

• Loss of libido.

• Variable moods.

• Difficult to focus.

• Vaginal dryness.

• Among other common symptoms.

It is estimated that around 80% of women experience menopausal symptoms caused by hormonal imbalances today.

This stage of the life cycle of women is a universal and irreversible part of the entire aging process of the reproductive system, after which menses no longer occur.

Although the residence time (currently up to a third of the life cycle) has increased with the phenomenon of increased longevity; the average age of onset of menopause, approximately 50-51 years, has not changed since ancient times.

The women of ancient Greece experienced it at the same age as modern women.

When the symptoms appear before the age of 40, it can be considered that one is facing a premature or early menopause.

And if, on the contrary, it occurs after the age of 55, it is considered late.

Some of the factors that can anticipate its arrival are smoking, hysterectomy, autoimmune diseases, and certain medications and chemotherapy treatments and/or radiation treatments.

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