What are the signs of menopause?

The pre-menopausal symptoms are not so obvious, but female friends will often become irritable, easily excited and suffer from insomnia. Even their attention ability will become not very concentrated and their memory will decline. However, people will not notice these problems at the beginning, but they will slowly realize that they have these symptoms as time goes by.

Psychoneural symptoms:

Excitable type, irritable, easily agitated, insomnia, inattention, multi-talking, loud crying, etc.

Depressive type, irritability, anxiety, inner uneasiness, memory loss, slow movement, low mood, etc.

Vasomotor symptoms, hot flashes and flushes are characteristic symptoms of women entering perimenopause, and 82% of patients have this symptom for one year.

Cardiovascular symptoms: 28.9% of patients have pseudo-angina, sometimes accompanied by palpitations, chest tightness, etc. The occurrence of symptoms is often affected by mental factors. In addition, about 15.2% of patients have mild hypertension, which is characterized by increased systolic blood pressure, not high diastolic blood pressure, paroxysmal attacks, dizziness, headache, chest tightness, and palpitations when blood pressure rises.

Skin tension decreases, and it becomes dry and thinner.

Mid-term menopausal syndrome (post-menopause):

Atrophic urethritis may cause difficulty urinating, pain in the urethral opening, frequent urination, urgency, and incontinence (even leakage of urine when laughing, coughing, or sneezing), but no pyuria.

Senile vaginitis: 30% of postmenopausal women will develop senile vaginitis, the main symptoms of which are increased leucorrhea, vulvar itching, and vaginal burning sensation.

Uterine prolapse, bladder and rectal prolapse, accompanied by urinary retention, urinary incontinence, and difficulty in defecation.

Late stage of menopausal syndrome:

Postmenopausal osteoporosis

Some patients may experience bone pain, joint pain or local tenderness, but no redness, swelling or heat. Vertebral, distal radius, and hip fractures may occur, as well as spinal deformity, shortening, and tooth loss.

Cardiovascular disease, postmenopausal cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, their causes are partly related to postmenopausal estrogen deficiency.

Atherosclerosis of the cerebral arteries and carotid arteries and an increased incidence of Alzheimer's disease.