At what age does menopause begin?

After reaching a certain age, female friends will always have some menopausal symptoms. Menopause is a manifestation of female body aging and organ decline. At this time, there will often be a lot of discomfort in the body, such as facial flushing, irregular menstruation, easy emotionality, etc. Let us understand when female friends will experience menopause and some ways to relieve menopause.

Since the transition of gonadal function from maturity to decline occurs gradually, it is difficult to be sure when menopause begins, but when the ovarian endocrine hormones decrease to a certain level, women will no longer menstruate. Even though there are often irregular menstruation before menopause, it is now generally recognized that natural menopause occurs when a woman naturally stops having menstruation for one year. Although it cannot be said that there are no such cases where a woman suddenly has her period again one year after amenorrhea, or even becomes pregnant, it is rare.

Except for some diseases that require surgery or radiotherapy to terminate ovarian function, menopausal changes usually occur before menopause; after menopause, some menopausal symptoms may continue for a period of time. This makes it difficult to accurately grasp clinically, so we can only estimate a person's menopause start time based on her age at menopause. Strictly speaking, the time when each person starts menopause may vary slightly due to differences in region, climate, race, economy, nutrition, age of menarche, marriage and childbirth history, and contraceptive methods.

On the other hand, some records in Western history show that although the age of menopause in women has been slightly delayed, the change is not particularly large. Before the Common Era, women entered menopause at an average age of 40 to 50 years old, 35 to 60 years old in the Middle Ages, and currently in Western countries it is generally 42 to 58 years old. In 1980, my country conducted a survey of more than 130,000 women in 29 provinces and cities. The age of natural menopause was between 42 and 58 years old, with an average of 49.5 years old. Of course, there were some women who went into menopause as early as 39 and as late as 60 years old. An earlier or later age of menopause should be noted until no other abnormalities are found. In fact, 95% of menopause occurs around the age of 50, and rural women on average reach menopause two years earlier than urban women. In 1989, Nanjing Medical College organized 23 units across the country to establish a national perimenopausal women's health survey collaboration group. The sample survey involved approximately 2,000 women in each of three groups: medical personnel, teachers, textile workers, and farmers. The results showed that the average age of natural menopause was 49+3.7 years old, with only 3.1% under the age of 40 and 1.1% over the age of 55.

Female friends who are in menopause will inevitably experience various discomforts due to the significant changes in hormone levels in their bodies. It is best to take some drugs to increase estrogen and delay the aging of the body to relieve the discomfort. It is also very beneficial to maintain a positive and optimistic mood to relieve menopause.