Normal changes in your reproductive and hormone systems cause menopause. As your egg supply ages, your body begins to ovulate less often. This causes your hormone levels to go up and down unevenly (fluctuate), causing changes in your periods and other symptoms. In time, estrogen and progesterone levels drop enough that the menstrual cycle stops. Some medical treatments can cause your periods to stop before age 40.

Losing chemical substances that were once natural and common throughout your body, which regulated and assisted with daily body functioning, throws your body out of alignment.

The formal definition of menopause is the last menstrual period. However, during the years building up to menopause, many women's cycles will be irregular, with several months between periods. So it can be difficult to know whether the last period you had was in fact the final one. A rule of thumb is that if you haven't had a period for 12 months, they're probably finished, and your menopause is 'back-dated' to the last period you had.

Vaginal dryness and pain can have many causes, including infections, skin conditions, and allergic reactions. It is important to discuss persistent, uncomfortable symptoms with your healthcare provider.

No one knows for sure but it is suspected that the rise in some of the brain hormones that react to the elevated Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Lutenizing Hormone (LH) are responsible. These hormones sense the increased activity produced by the LH and FSH and increase also. One of the hormones that increase in this way is ACTH, which produces cortisol by the adrenal gland.

Health-and-Fitness:Women's-Issues] Doctors do not know exactly what causes hot flashes. Because of the health risks associated with hormone replacement therapy, more and more women are interested in learning how to control hot flashes the natural way. Health-and-Fitness:Women's-Issues] One of the most common symptoms of menopause, hot flashes are not something that must be tolerated. A cure for hot flashes, hot flushes or night sweats is not that hard to find.

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Yes, as long as your cycles are between 26 and 32 days long. However, as you approach menopause, your cycles may become irregular ? either shorter or longer. When this happens, CycleBeads will not work for you.

Hysterectomy is the second most commonly performed surgery in the United States. Approximately 600,000 hysterectomies are performed annually, with the ovaries removed in about half of these cases. A total or complete hysterectomy is a surgical procedure in which the uterus and cervix are removed. The term oophorectomy (or ovariectomy) refers to the removal of the ovaries, either one (unilateral) or both (bilateral). The fallopian tubes also may be removed in a procedure called salpingectomy.