Symptoms of women reaching menopause

Women will enter menopause when they reach a certain age. This is a relatively important stage for women. During menopause, there are more symptoms, which also brings more troubles to women. For example, psychological changes often make women feel empty and lonely, and sometimes suspicious. If you do not pay attention to proper conditioning, it is easy to cause some organic diseases, often causing menstrual disorders and even some disease problems.

Symptoms of women reaching menopause

1. Psychological changes

They often feel lonely, empty, or isolated, or have a sense of hypochondria or impending death. Many people give up on themselves, blame themselves, and feel guilty. Some people are suspicious of everything and are always worried. These psychological disorders are sometimes quite prominent and need to be differentiated from neuropsychiatric diseases.

2. Changes in blood pressure

The general manifestations are increased systolic blood pressure, low diastolic blood pressure, and very obvious fluctuations, which often occur simultaneously with hot flashes and sweating. When blood pressure rises, symptoms such as dizziness, headache, swollen eyes, chest tightness, and palpitations may occur. Unlike primary hypertension, these symptoms are paroxysmal.

3. Menstrual disorders

Menstrual disorders are the first clinical manifestation of menopause, and 70% to 80% of their causes are functional and related to the decline of gonadal function. There are roughly three situations or types of manifestations.

① Irregular menstrual cycle: The most common form is early onset of the cycle, shortened menstrual duration, gradual decrease in menstrual volume, and then complete cessation. This type of bleeding is estrogen withdrawal bleeding, not true menstruation.

③ Long-term anovulatory bleeding: The clinical manifestation is uterine bleeding after a period of amenorrhea, which lasts for 2 to 4 weeks or longer. The amount of blood and duration are related to the duration of estrogen action and the speed of withdrawal.

③Sudden cessation of menstruation: It is quite rare, accounting for only 10%, because ovarian function decline is a slow process.

4. Panic and shortness of breath

Symptoms include discomfort in the chest area, palpitations, shortness of breath, laryngeal palpitations, sighing-like breathing, and sometimes arrhythmia, tachycardia, or bradycardia. These symptoms are often related to emotions. It has nothing to do with physical activity. Sometimes it occurs simultaneously with hot flashes and sweating, but unlike coronary heart disease and angina pectoris, it cannot be relieved by nitrite drugs, and there is no change of myocardial ischemia on the electrocardiogram.

5. Neuropsychiatric symptoms

One manifestation is mental depression, insomnia, low mood, indifferent expression, inattention, frequent forgetfulness, or unreasonable panic, timidity, suspicion, whining, etc.; the other manifestation is mental excitement, emotional instability, irritability, sensitivity and suspicion, mood swings, often quarreling and fighting over trivial matters, crying and laughing at random, and even mental disorder, damaging people and property.

6. Paresthesia

Common sensory abnormalities include a floating feeling when walking, a feeling of being drunk, and dizziness or fear when climbing heights. Sometimes the skin develops abnormal sensations, such as a tingling sensation or itching. Many people also experience a foreign body sensation in the throat, commonly known as "plum pit qi". The patient's throat seemed to be blocked by a foreign object. The patient cannot swallow or spit out anything, and no physical symptoms are found. Long-term treatment has no effect. This is related to the mental state. In fact, it is abnormal contraction of the throat muscles caused by autonomic nervous system dysfunction. A few people may also have abnormalities in their sense of smell, taste, and hearing.

7. Flushing and sweating

Commonly known as "rising fire", it is caused by vascular vasomotor dysfunction caused by autonomic nervous system dysfunction. It often occurs when you are worried, angry, nervous, excited or agitated. The attack is usually sudden, and the patient feels a heat rushing up from the chest to the neck and face, followed by local redness and sweating. A few also show fear of cold and pale complexion. Each attack usually lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes. Some attacks occur once every few days, while others occur several times a day. In severe cases, it can affect the patient's work, study, sleep, and physical and mental health. According to statistics, about 20% of cases occur in the premenopausal period, and about 80% occur in the postmenopausal period.