Menopause
Menopause occurs when you have not had a menstrual period for 12 months. Menopause is a natural part of life occurring at around age 51 years but can also happen for other reasons including after surgery, chemotherapy, or radiotherapy to your pelvis. At menopause, you stop producing oestrogen (the main sex hormone in women) and this can lead to menopausal symptoms.
Click on an option below for more menopause information to help you determine which menopause management options are best suited to your needs.
Being Menopause Aware
Our bodies never stop changing! Later In later life when oestrogen hormones start to decrease. This initial stage of lowered oestrogen is called ‘perimenopause’, while ‘menopause’ refers to the stage when periods stop. This process usually starts between the ages of 45 and 55 and ‘early menopause’ is the term used when these changes take place before the age of 45. Women will often.... Read more in our blog...
The Menopause
Menopause actually means ‘when periods stop’. We often think of the menopause as the time of life leading up to, and after, your last period. Your periods may just stop but usually they will become more unpredictable and may even become heavier before they stop. It may take years to go through this change. When you haven’t had a period for more than a year you can consider yourself postmenopausal... Read more in our blog...
Menopause Symptoms and Issues
All women go through the menopause and a few will have no problems. In reality, most women will experience some kind of symptoms due to reduced oestrogen. In every 10 women, about 8 will have some kind of symptoms and 2 of those will have severe symptoms.
Everybody is different and for sometimes this will last for a few months, but it can take a few years, importantly, we can help with your symptoms if needed. . Read more in our blog...
Menopause Management
Menopause management is best tailored to each individual. You may not want anything other than the confirmation that your symptoms are menopause related. Without management, the symptoms we’ve discussed can last a few years in most women.
There are many ways of managing menopausal symptoms and Integriti Doctors may signpost you towards our allied health network including dieticians, physiotherapists, and exercise physiologists, amongst others to help manage your symptoms.
A range of medication options also exists. This includes both hormonal and non-hormonal options. . Read more in our blog...
References
Please see below.
- Menopause by Dr Jacqueline Payne, https://patient.info/womens-health/menopause
- Menopause: diagnosis and management; NICE Guidelines (November 2015)
- Panay N et al; British Menopause Society & Women’s Heath Concern recommendations on hormone replacement therapy, May 2013
- Langer RD; The evidence base for HRT: what can we believe? Climacteric. 2017 Apr20(2):91-96. doi: 10.1080/13697137.2017.1280251. Epub 2017 Mar 10.
- Kaunitz AM, Manson JE; Management of Menopausal Symptoms. Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Oct126 (4):859-76. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001058.
- No authors listed; Nonhormonal management of menopause-associated vasomotor symptoms: 2015 position statement of The North American Menopause Society. Menopause. 2015 Nov22 (11):1155-74. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000546.
- Contraception for Women Aged over 40 Years; Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (August 2017)
Click on an option below for more menopause information to help you determine which options are best suited to your needs.
Is improving your lifestyle part of your menopause symptom management plan?
You may be interested in an Integriti lifestyle clinic. Contact us to discuss availability.
Not sure what contraception treatment option to choose?
Although women become less fertile as they get older, it is still possible to get pregnant around the time of the menopause. So, if you are sexually active and don't want to become pregnant, you will need to consider contraception:
• Until a year after your last period if you are 50 or over.
• Until two years after your last period if you are under 50.
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