My 55-year-old wife has been going through a lot of mood swings, poor sleep, and occasional irritable moments lately. Kindly let me know if these have anything to do with menopause.
Ike (by SMS)
Yes. Hot flashes, sleep problems, and mood swings—these are the symptoms that many people may be familiar with when it comes to menopause. Yet there is so much more to this biological transition that anyone who has periods goes through. When a person has stopped having periods for 12 months, they have officially gone through menopause.
Menopause is a natural process. The body’s hormones deplete because the ovaries have stopped producing eggs. When this happens, the hormones associated with them will go down. The range of symptoms that a person can experience include; anxiety, low mood, memory problems, fatigue, feeling very low and joyless, irritability, poor sleep, headaches, heart palpitations, muscle pain, joint pain, urinary symptoms, reduced libido as well as vaginal dryness.
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