¶ … transitions and symptoms that menopause can cause. The writer also explores things that can be done to ease the transition of menopause. There were five sources used to complete this paper.
When mankind was created, somebody made a mistake. As it stands menopause hits women right about the time that her children enter their late teen years. What a recipe for disaster. Menopause is a process that is either reached naturally, or induced artificially, but sooner or later every woman has to go through it. Menopause impacts different women in different ways. While one woman may have many bothersome symptoms that last for years, another woman may have a few symptoms that last a short while. Menopause is something that marks the end of the childbearing years, but also provides a new phase of life that can be fulfilling and fun.
Before one can begin to understand the total impact that menopause has on a woman it is important to understand that menopause is not a single event, but a transition filled with many different elements. The process of menopause is the process of the ovaries ceasing to produce enough estrogen to maintain the menstrual cycle. This means that eggs stop being dropped and bleeding ceases to occur as well (Kieren, 1995).
Using this purely physiological referent, all women can be placed in either a pre-menopausal or a post-menopausal category. While the median age of last menses in industrialized nations is 51 years, the range is from 41-59 (Stanford, Hartge, Brinton, Hoover & Brookmeyer, 1987). After 12 months of amenorrhea (no menstruation) it is assumed that ovulation has ceased. The post-menopausal state continues throughout the remainder of a woman's life (Kieren, 1995)."
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