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The beginning of the period of menopause (climacteric) is characterized by a very peculiar set of symptoms, some well known but others are confusing unknown women.

1. Climacteric symptoms
However, these complaints may occur in some women even before the rule is removed permanently. The most common are: hot flashes, sweating, palpitations, paresthesia (tingling), melancholy, irritability, mood changes, anxiety, depression, nervousness, headaches, insomnia, etc..

2. Hot Flashes
Hot flashes, sweating with or without, are the most common manifestation and one of the main reasons for the menopausal woman goes to the consultation. Although not all ladies have them, about 8 of every 10 women experience hot flashes in climacteric. They tend to be more severe after surgically induced menopause.

The way we produce is not completely understood, however, is described as a heat wave in the face and neck, extending to the chest. They may be accompanied by a localized or diffuse redness of the skin and / or palpitations.

In many cases, flushing may occur after some annoying chills. The duration is quite variable, a few seconds to, in more severe cases, 5 or 10 minutes. May occur during the day or night, interrupting sleep and being a frequent cause of insomnia and / or mental and physical fatigue the next day. Some situations may desencadenalos, for example, a hot meal, closed environments, the use of clothes very fair, a shock or strong emotion, and so on.

Its intensity is also variable. Range from very discrete so annoying to force women to interrupt what you’re doing and seek fresh air fan or a window. Furthermore, in a few cases, hot flashes may be accompanied by a “feeling of faintness.

Women may complain of hot flashes for several months or up to about 5 years time, in which at least half of them no longer have hot flashes. However, in some women, can persist for a longer time, up to 15 or 20 years.

Sweating often accompanies hot flashes, although it may be isolated. It can range from localized sweating in the palms of the hands or forehead, so widespread throughout the body, get wet and soak clothes, often requiring change it.

3. Tingling in the extremities (paresthesia)
The paresthesias are usually a nuisance rather frequent in the climacteric. Women are perceived as a sensation of numbness and tingling especially in the limbs, like arms, hands, legs and feet.

4. Mood swings
Changes. Psychological factors influence the mood alteration.
Besides estrogen deficiency, typical of this stage of life, certain psychological factors may enhance mood changes found in the climacteric.

Since the inception of perimenopause, women are often faced with additional stressors, such as dealing with teenage children or the need to provide special care to older people, and feelings of loss, such as having to take the final practical inability have children, or judged less beautiful and grown up.

For all these reasons, it is relatively common (30%) that this depression climacteric women, with or without anxiety, which is manifested by insecurity, fear, anger, sadness, apprehension or exaggerated concern oneself.

Statistics reveal a high use of anxiolytics (medicines used to reduce anxiety) for climacteric women when they are compared with data from men of the same age (almost double) or women in another stage of their lives.

5. Sleep disorders
Usually spend a 1 / 3 the time of our day to sleep. This time is important because it is intended to recover the energies of our body as well as to restore the mental feeling of well being.

Insomnia, ie by falling asleep or waking up shortly after falling asleep and failing to sleep, or even have a dream of inadequate quality, that is not restful, it may be associated with the occurrence of hot flashes by night.

However, insomnia, along with other sleep disorders like snoring and onset of tremor, quite frequent complaints in the climacteric, may be a direct consequence of the hormonal changes of this phase.

These sleep disturbances can be the cause of women, the next day complaining of irritability, decreased concentration, excessive sleepiness or other mood disorders.

Sleep disorders are often undervalued by both women as doctors, so when these disturbances persist for at least 1 month and cause a deterioration of social life, employment or any activity of women, and are not associated with any organic or psychiatric disease, consult a professional.

6. Migraines
Changes in blood levels of estrogen and progestin, even those that already occur in premenopause, can alter the frequency and intensity of migraines.

Those women who had migraine (migraine and migraine is the same) only in the menstrual period often have a worsening of this symptom after the menopause, whereas they used to have migraine unrelated to the rule may experience an improvement or no change over menopause.

7. Weight changes
In climacteric women tend to gain weight and gain about 10% of their weight prior to pre-menopause, although this is due to any change in dietary pattern and physical activity.

On the other hand, acquires a new body fat distribution after menopause. The fat that used to be deposited in the thighs, hips and breasts, in a more peripheral distribution typically female, now installed after estrogen deficiency, is deposited preferentially at the waist in the gut, ie acquires a central distribution and typical male.

Keep in mind that these facts are not only aesthetic, but that weight gain and central fat distribution are considered as risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

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