Perimenopause. Menopause. Premenstrual syndrome. Estrogen dominance. Osteoporosis.

When watching the media these days, there is a good chance you are going to encounter a discussion about one or more of the above women’s health issues. Although these discussions offer much advice, it is often contradictory and debatable. In the following paragraphs, one will discover what really is happening in a woman’s body as she travels through her lifestages and why these changes are occurring.

No matter what our age, life’s plans, personal desires, or professional goals, being a female means that our organs and hormones will cause us to experience physical changes in fairly specific intervals. Within each of these stages, normal fluctuations in our reproductive hormones occur, with high levels in puberty, and ceasing levels later in life. Since our reproductive hormones are responsible for other important functions in our bodies, completely unrelated to pregnancy and babies, these changing levels greatly affect women’s health as a whole, resulting in a variety of normal and natural, but uncomfortable, symptoms. Healthcare practitioners have come to view these symptoms as problems to fix because they do cause discomfort. As for most diseases, healthcare practitioners prescribe synthetic hormones to treat these symptoms, but recent research has determined that these HRT’s (hormone replacement therapies) cause far more risks than benefits. The simple fact to this research is that you don’t need more hormones to treat hormonal imbalance. Instead, you need specific nutrients that restore hormonal balance and reduce symptoms, being vitamins, minerals, and good nutrition.

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I am 51. Do I need anything more than Imitrex for my headaches and Ambien CR for sleep? I don’t have any other symptoms.

Just the mere mention of the word menopause will give any woman some jitters. For members of the female gender, this stage in their lives is as scary as nightly visits from Freddie Kruger. You too would be scared if you knew that you will be haunted by the symptoms of menopause, which include hormonal changes, night sweats, hot flashes, tension headaches, mood swings, dry skin, lowered sex drive, vaginal dryness, anxiety, tension, and depression.

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Menopause vitamins and menopause herbs do exist. When considering menopause vitamins, understand that if your primary hormones are out of balance, experiencing menopause symptoms can be the result.

For women, estimates are as high as 90% of women will suffer the aches, pains and emotional stresses of PMS. Other symptoms affect nearly half of women who report irritability, mood swings, cramps, hot flashes, breast tenderness, migraines or headaches, lack of energy, bloating and bad skin.

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Menopause comes with its own problems for women. Some of the symptoms of menopause include, slowing down and then total cessation of menstruation, elimination of child bearing hormones and decrease in the breast size. Women also complain of other uncomfortable symptoms including, insomnia, night sweats, erratic moods and vaginal dryness as menopause sets on. Fortunately though there are many natural menopause products available in the market that can help them provide relief. You can find many such products being extensively advertised over the internet too. Along with valuable information you can also shop for such products over the internet, what with the wide variety on offer online.

One of the most popular of all natural menopause products is the herb, Sage. This Mediterranean herb is known for its varied medicinal properties and is known to have been used for centuries together by the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. The herb is known to contain several useful medicinal ingredients including, camphor, flavonoids, tannins, borneol, cineole and beta-thujone. The medicinal properties of this herb include being, anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. This herb also acts as an astringent, apart from being a good perspiration inhibitor. Clinical studies have clearly shown the efficacy of Sage when it comes to reducing the occurrence of excessive sweating during menopausal hot flashes.

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As symptoms of the early menopause we can find physical signs and emotional signs. In the category of the physical signs, we can mention irregular periods, infertility, vaginal dryness, bladder control problems, hot flashes and night sweats, weight gain, palpitations, headaches, breast tenderness, bloating, gastrointestinal distress and nausea. There can also appear increase in facial hair, changes in body odor, dry mouth and other oral symptoms, dizziness and sore joints.In what concerns the emotional signs, there can appear irritability, mood swings, anxiety, confusion, lack of concentration, memory lapses, lowered libido, and extreme fatigue.

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While menopause and headaches go hand in hand, doctors can easily treat this type of pain. The majority of the time headaches associated with menopause are caused by hormone changes, which is treatable. Menopause causes sudden hormone changes and they will cause all the normal symptoms of menopause: mood swings, headaches, hot flashes, etc. It is your doctor’s job to provide pain relief and in many cases they will have knowledge of several areas to explore if you are having difficulty in finding a treatment that works for you. The medical area of menopause and headaches is very exciting for doctors as the actual causes other than hormones or why the severity of the headache varies from person to person, may come down to your genetics or other physiological factors.

Treatment For Menopause Headaches

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