Fifty Shades Of Menopause
It has been said many times that your experience of menopause is unique to you. No other woman will experience menopause symptoms exactly the same way you do.
Menopausal women's symptoms vary in terms of:
Let’s consider hot flashes:
All three women may describe their hot flashes as "severe" - but each of their experiences of hot flashes is completely different.
This means that when you talk about a menopause symptom with another woman, you may think that the two of you are discussing the same experience, but you are not.
While women may experience individual symptoms uniquely, what they do have in common with other menopausal women is their perception of the degree of difficulty they are having with their passage through menopause.
Women will describe their passage through menopause according their overall perception of the impact that their symptoms are having on their day-to-day lives. Generally they will describe their passage through menopause as one of the following:
Even the term "menopause symptoms" leads to conversations between women where they are essentially comparing "apples" and "oranges".
There is no such thing as menopause symptoms. There are perimenopause symptoms and postmenopause symptoms. While there may be an overlap in the terms used to describe some of the symptoms endured by both, the experience of those symptoms are very different.
Also, a majority symptoms described as menopause symptoms are only experienced during perimenopause. They are not experienced during postmenopause.
There is much for women to learn and understand about
To eliminate confusion caused by the factors discussed above, a system has been developed to describe the stages of menopause. There are 4 main stages of menopause:
Each stage is unique with its own set of symptoms.
To clarify matters even more, the two phases of perimenopause have been been broken down further into 5 distinct phases of perimenopause.
Each phase of perimenopause has its own set of symptoms.
The path to an easier passage through menopause is by way of educating yourself about menopause.
When you understand the stages of menopause (and their symptoms) and the phases of perimenopause (and their symptoms), it will help you to identify the following:
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This article is reproduced with the permission of Menopause Matters.