Ms. Li is an elegant woman who has a successful career, a happy family, and her children are admitted to the ideal school. She is often envied by those around her.
But it seems that everything has changed recently. She is always unable to do what she wants at work. A little unsatisfactory little thing can make her emotional, often aggrieved and want to cry, making her upset and life. It also seems to have lost its meaning. There still seems to be someone whispering around: “She’s going through menopause! Stay away from her, don’t mess with her!”
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She told her family and friends about her pain, and no one seemed to understand.
What’s worse is that she, who was originally slim and beautiful, is now uncontrollably fat, flustered, joint pains all over her body, and she doesn’t know what the problem is. She was tossing and turning at night, and her clothes were soaked with hot flashes and sweat. The discomfort in her private parts also made her lose her “sexual interest”.
What the hell is going on here?
A correct understanding of menopause
When describing a moody woman in her mid-50s, people often think of “menopause” first.
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So what do the closely related words “menopause”, “perimenopause” and “menopause” mean? How do women determine which stage they are in?
Menopause
is the popular name given to menopausal women. Menopause, as the name suggests, refers to the change of age. Because of the decline of ovarian function, women change from fertile to infertile, and then stage of aging.
Perimenopause
is the medical term for menopause. Women often experience menstrual disorders after the age of 40 and begin to enter perimenopause, which ends one year after their last menstrual period.
menopause
This is the last menstrual period a woman will experience in her life, meaning the end of ovarian function. There is currently no clear method to predict the time of the last menstrual period, so menopause is a retrospective concept, and if there is no menstrual period 1 year after the last menstrual period, it can be determined as menopause.
Postmenopausal
All periods since the last menstrual period.
What are the symptoms of menopause?
The fundamental cause of aging in postmenopausal women is the lack of estrogen. Estrogen has a wide range of effects, not only involved in reproductive function, but also on various organs in the body. Such as skin, mucous membranes, bones, blood vessels, nerves, etc., so the lack of estrogen will cause the following symptoms:
Recent: Hot flashes, sweating, bone and joint pain, mood disorders, paresthesias, etc.;
Mid-term: discomfort caused by mucosal atrophy of the urinary tract and genital tract, etc.;
Long-term: Osteoporosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and Alzheimer’s disease, etc.
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Are my menopausal symptoms severe?
The modified Kupperman scoring system is the most commonly used method for assessing menopausal symptoms, which can relatively objectively assess the severity of menopausal symptoms. to testFind out what your “change” value is!
Usually a score of 2 on any of the Kupperman scales affects the patient’s quality of life, ie severe symptoms.
Female Menopause Self-Assessment Scale (Kupperman Modified Score) Source: Tencent Medical Illustrator
Faced with menopause, how to spend it scientifically?
Why promote menopause management?
In the 20th century, most women did not expect to reach menopause, hence the term “60th.” Today, according to statistics, in 2018, the life expectancy of women in Beijing has reached 84.63 years. People don’t care about the “60th birthday”, and most women’s menopause age is still between 45 and 55 years old, which means that women More than 30 years of life extension are in post-menopause.
Women will live long, estrogen-deficient lives under their natural conditions, and it is hard to imagine how a woman without estrogen could survive 30+ years in good health. 30 years occupy almost 1/3 of a woman’s life, and life is not only extended by length, but also by width.
Menopause hormone therapy
Women’s aging after menopause is essentially because women do not have the protection of estrogen. Therefore, postmenopausal management begins by making up what is missing in the body.
Estrogen supplementation can effectively relieve menopausal symptoms, improve the incongruity and inexplicability of sexual life caused by atrophy of the urogenital tract mucosa, and prevent osteoporosis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and senile dementia.
See more medical books: Can I use hormones to treat menopausal syndrome?
What should I pay attention to in my life?
Postmenopausal women are prone to disorders of glucose and lipid metabolism, redistribution of fat, increase in body fat and visceral fat, and decrease in muscle tissue. They need to adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Therefore, should consume adequate protein daily, eat less sugar, salt, oil, eat more vegetables, limit alcohol and coffee intake, quit smoking, exercise regularly, control weight.
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More understanding and more love, gracefully welcoming the “second spring”
From a medical point of view, menopause is just a natural physiological stage in a woman’s life, just like puberty and childbearing years.
They have worked hard for the family and society for the first half of their lives. When they are in their 40s, they finally yearn to enjoy their lives. However, due to the natural failure of the ovary, the estrogen The lack of, and began to endure a series of incomprehensible torments brought about by menopause.
It is not easy for women to face menopause, but society has given them many metaphors for “menopause”, which makes their situation even more difficult.
They need care from family and society, more understanding and more love for her around us. Let us all accompany her through the menopause scientifically and gracefully welcome the “second spring”.
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