What Women Need To Know About Menopause
Women frequently ask what symptoms they can anticipate during menopause. In reality, each woman experiences menopause differently. While one woman is certain that insomnia is a symptom of menopause for her, another is certain that joint aches are her primary menopause symptom. Physicians are not even able to tell women what to expect because research into the symptoms of menopause has not yet established just how menopause causes many of the symptoms. For example, medical science cannot explain how the declining hormone levels of menopause could cause joint aches.
Menopause is not a disease but a natural transition, yet many of the menopausal symptoms also may be caused by diseases. You are not always certain which symptoms are due to menopause, and women differ in their symptoms. How, then, do doctors decide when women undergoing menopause need treatment in the first place? The same pattern of hot flashes in two different women can have a very different psychological impact. For one woman, they can disturb her daily functioning greatly, but for another, they may hardly be bothersome.