Thursday, October, 29, 2009
Pounding Heart A Symptom Of Perimenopause
Health Encyclopedia: Menopause Symptoms
Symptoms
The most prominent symptoms of the transition to menopause include:
- Hot flashes and night sweats. Women often experience hot flashes as an intense build-up in body heat, followed by sweating and chills. Some women report accompanying anxiety as the sensation builds. In most cases hot flashes resolve within 2 years of menopause, although in some women they may persist for years. Women who have a hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) are less likely to experience hot flashes than wo...
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...hormone, is necessary for thickening and preparing the uterine lining for the fertilized egg.Menopause and
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...transition into menopause, suggests a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Women who enter
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...sweating and abdominal pain. Panic attacks that include only one or two symptoms, such as dizziness and
heart pounding, are known as limited-symptom attacks. These may be either residual symptoms...
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...severe hot flashes reported insomnia at least 3 nights a week for at least 6 months. Women experiencing
perimenopause, the transitional period to menopause, were most likely to have sleep...
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