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Menopause means the final cessation of menstruation or a normal part of an aging. Menopause is a natural happening for women. Women can usually understand if she is approaching menopause because her menstrual periods starts changing. It is also happen by as the result of surgical removal of both ovaries. Otherwise it means 1 to 3 years period during which a woman adjusts to a diminishing and then absent menstrual flow and the physiologic changes somewhere mental changes that may be associated, hot flushes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness. In western societies the average age for menopause is 51 years. 40 years average was calculated as ovarian failure and menstrual cessation. Generally the age of menopause is from 45 to 55 years.But it somewhere it depend on genetic or autoimmune basis. In the other hand surgical menopause happened due to bilateral oophorectomy is common and can cause more severe symptoms owing to the sudden rapid drop in sex hormone level. In the time of menopause ovarian cessation is found and emotional disturbance come out. In this time changes the women personality, mood, depression and anxiety can occur at the menopause time. During this period women would loss of youth, and some women suffer with psychological distress. Natural menopause occurs in the women when the ovaries naturally begin decreasing their production of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone hormones.
Cessation of menstruation symptoms: menstruation cycle become irregular and length of cycle also irregular. Menstrual flow usually diminishes in amount owing to decreased estrogen secretion, resulting in less abundant endometrial growth. With missed periods of spotting cycle become longer.
Hot Flushes: on account of decrease ovarian hormones hot flushes occur in eighty percent of women. Hot flushes can begin before the cessation of menses. Release of GnRH from the hypothalamus increase the causes of hot flushes. Hot flushes are to be considered as characteristic symptom during menopause. But hot flushes generally not found in the woman who are undergo surgical menopause.
Vaginal atrophy: decrease of estrogen secretion, vaginal mucosa and vaginal lubrication occurs and may lead to dyspareunia. After the menopause the ovaries are not normally palpable .vagina generally appear red, plumb, bright and moist during the menopause.
Osteoporosis: Osteoporosis is a problem of women during the periods of menopause. It can be also present without any symptoms for decades because osteoporosis doesn’t cause symptoms until bone fractures of women. Moreover, some osteoporosis fractures may escape detection for years when they do not cause any symptoms. So, patients may not be aware of their osteoporosis until they suffer a painful fracture at immediate or later. The symptom of patients associated with osteoporosis fractures usually is pain; and the location of the pain depends on the location of the fracture. Also the symptoms of osteoporosis in men are similar to the symptoms of osteoporosis in women. However this problem occurs during the period of menopause.