Women have
its ups and downs. It signifies the ending of her most fruitful moment of his
life to have children she wanted to care. It was the cherish wish of every
woman to have a happy family. The child was the center stage of their married
life. This happiness is only momentary. Menopause is the mark that her
child-bearing years has ended and permanently stopped. It was time of
challenge, boredom, loneliness and period of uncertainty.
In the
menopausal stage, it ceased the menstrual cycle every woman is expecting every
month as normal body process in biological form she can’t avoid. The woman’s
ovaries no longer produce hormones as required to bear a child. It started to
slow down as she reaches the age of 40 and completely stopped at the age of 50
or over. There are some of them ended much earlier.
During her
child bearing years, there was continues production of female hormones
(estrogen and progesterone) in the ovary. It fluctuates every month especially
if there is cyclical development of new eggs.
It continues to slowly decline until the ovary no longer produce any as
a sign of entering into menopausal stage. Her menstrual period was now irregular
or even complete stopped.
After menopause,
a woman can still produce estrogen in small amount through her adrenal gland. A
woman has no idea when her monthly period will stop no until she felt great
changes in her biological processes when she no longer bear a child.
One a woman
entered her menopausal stage, there is natural biological experiences she felt
of having hot flashes, occasional bleeding and spotting. Hot flashes give her
uncomfortable feeling of intense heat in the duration of two minutes or more.
There was intense heat in her upper chest, arms, head and neck anytime of the
day and repeated one or more during the day and night.
There was
redness of the skin and profuse sweating. It continues year after year and even
lasted 5 years. There was thinning and weakening of bones. The bones easily
fracture. The brittle bones are common to older women especially in the hip or
wrists. The spinal vertebra was weakened. Any slight stress to the bones will
result to compression fractures deadly to older women. There is low back pain
and loss in height being observed.
She has bowed
posture sue to loss of flexibility and elasticity of the muscles around the
damaged bones. She felt painful headache similar to migraine. There is pain in
her back, neck and in the chest portion. She has bouts of sleeplessness
(insomnia), irritable, mood swing, anxiety, depression, nausea, constipation,
sadness and confusion.
She was
irritable even in slight displeasure. She was keen on wrong impression and
easily get angry to unfavorable remarks. Her response was the result of her
belief of rejection from other people due to her body changes not easy to
comprehend.
Her internal
passage shortens. It becomes narrower and no longer elastic. Its lining has
cellular changes. It loses its thickness, it becomes thinner as the days passes
by. He is susceptible to bacterial infection. Her internal passage losses its
normal acidity and the natural secretion completely stopped.
A woman in
her 50’s started to feel lonely. She can’t easily adjust to new environment she
has to fit in. To remain young, vibrant, active and wrinkle-free was already
history. Her face and skin has wrinkles as sign of getting older. Old age makes
her susceptible to many kinds of diseases because of lack of hormonal balance
(estrogen).
Heart
disease, cancer of the colon, Alzheimer’s disease and degenerative disease
affecting the central nervous system were among the few. There was drastic
change in her mental capacity. She often had memory loss, her reasoning power,
ability to maintain better self-care and personal hygiene was deteriorating.
She loses her ability to be active and participate in social gathering. She
just sat there alone as if no flicker of life left in her. Her children were no
longer with her. There was incompleteness in her life.
To minimize
the impact of menopause especially during the time when there are hot flashes,
some tips may help to handle the inconveniences:
-Drink plenty
of water to quench the thirst when the normal temperature of the body increases
slightly.
-Minimize
taking alcohol, coffee and tea. It alters the normal conditioning of the body.
-A little
exercise each day helps the bones to maintain strength from its deteriorating
bone structure after menopause.
-Stay at cool
environment. Make the house as cool as possible with enough windows for the air
to pass through inside to keep you from perspiring.
-Don’t wear
tight dress instead a light and loosen dress is helpful to cool you down.
-Control your
mood swing or irritability. It increases your temperature level and felt hot.
-Use
water-based gel or other over-the-counter preparations intended to give relief
from dryness in the internal passage.
-Talk to your
doctor for possible use of estrogen. He will evaluate your condition. If found
that it will not contradict to your present state of health, it will be a great
help to give relief of being uncomfortable.
No comments:
Post a Comment