Early menopause in women

Generally speaking, women will enter menopause after the age of 40, but some women need to have their uterus removed due to ovarian development problems or surgical treatment, which will cause menopause to come early. Of course, these are uncontrollable factors. Some women may experience early menopause due to their daily diet and lifestyle habits, but this early period will not be too early.

(1) The menstrual cycle gradually decreases, the interval between periods lengthens, and the menstrual period shortens, leading to gradual cessation of menstruation. However, there are also cases where the menstrual flow increases, accompanied by large amounts of blood clots, and then slowly stops, resulting in loss of reproductive ability and atrophy of the reproductive organs.

(2) Mental and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Patients often feel bouts of flushing in the head and neck, hot flashes, sweating, dizziness, headache, tinnitus, back pain, dry mouth, burning sensation in the throat, difficulty concentrating, nervousness and excitement, complex and changeable emotions, irritability, insomnia, forgetfulness, numbness and itching of the skin, and sometimes a sensation of ants crawling on the body, etc., and even hysterical attacks.

(3) Palpitations, increased blood pressure, obesity, lower limb edema, joint pain, osteoporosis, etc. Any woman aged 45 to 50 who has the above symptoms can be diagnosed with menopausal syndrome after a doctor has examined and ruled out other diseases.

According to statistics, about 75% of menopausal women will experience a series of neuropsychiatric symptoms, mainly depression, emotional instability, memory loss, and inattention, which are often more obvious after menopause than before menopause. In addition to being related to the decline in estrogen, the occurrence of these symptoms is also closely related to social and psychological factors such as education level, personal mental state and history of mental trauma, and economic situation. The emergence of neuropsychiatric symptoms often makes women more prone to tension, anxiety, pessimism and other psychological abnormalities. The long-term maintenance of symptoms and the poor effect of drug treatment further aggravate the above psychological burden. As a result, some women go to various clinical departments of the outpatient clinic to seek a confirmed diagnosis and request special tests and examinations. For some women, these symptoms may be aggravated intermittently due to the influence of climate, mood, adverse stimulation and other diseases.