Hormone Imbalance Symptoms: A Natural Remedy is Best
Menopause can occur at different times and in various ways for different women. In rare cases, women are lucky enough to reach menopause without having any significant problems. Others encounter hormone imbalance symptoms that are so severe that their lives and interpersonal relationships are affected. But hormone imbalance symptoms are an inseparable part of menopause, the natural biological process experienced by all women as their child-bearing years come to an end. The transition into menopause can begin as early as our 30s and sometimes last even well into our 60s.
Hormone imbalance symptoms are just a natural consequence of ageing that women experience in different ways. Some experience have only mild effects, while others battle a variety of distressing changes in their bodies, like the onset of hot flashes or mood swings that can negatively affect their lives.
There are a number of hormone imbalance symptoms a woman can experience, beginning with irregular menstrual periods. This irregularity itself may be apparent with increased or decreased frequency. Another of the more common hormone imbalance symptoms, the hot flash, is a consequence of dropping estrogen levels that cause our blood vessels to expand rapidly and increase our skin temperature. With hot flashes women generally experience sweating and have a flushed appearance which can last from 30 seconds to several minutes and can occur as often as once an hour. Hot flashes also happen at night and disrupt the sleep cycle, causing women to wake up from deep sleep to find their nightclothes and bedding soaked with sweat. Night sweats represent the third most common of hormone imbalance symptoms. Chronic night sweats can lead to insomnia.
Most women experiencing hormone imbalance symptoms gain some degree of weight at the onset, an average of around five pounds. This increased weight concentrates around the waist and abdomen. Other changes in appearance can include fullness of the breasts, thinning of hair, wrinkles, and adult acne.
Most of the time, women are so attuned to their bodies that they know the signs of menopause. If hormone imbalance symptoms get out of hand, it is best to seek professional medical help.
Your doctor will discuss your medical history, inquire into your general health, sex history, and ascertain genetic diseases in your family. You will be asked to list previous illnesses and medications received. Your doctor may perform a physical examination. Depending on the results, your doctor might opt to perform some lab tests.
Based on the results, your doctor may prescribe medication that will best suit you and relieve your hormone imbalance symptoms. A few of these might be the use of injectable drugs, pills, patches or creams.
Injections are painful, their provided hormone levels fluctuate, and they require frequent, expensive doctor's appointments. Pills can cause liver damage, and patches can cause blistering or fall off if you perspire heavily.
Among the treatment options that will should be offered is bioidentical natural hormone cream. It is the most effective and reliable mode of administration for the management of hormone imbalance symptoms. Other delivery methods, such as lotions, gels, sprays and capsules have yet to prove to be as effective as cream for the management of hormone imbalance symptoms. Also be aware that SYNTHETIC progesterones have been linked to heart attack, and breast and cervical caner.(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7671246, http://injury-law.freeadvice.com/defective_products/study-shows-prempro-premarin-increase-breast-cancer.htm, http://www.newspiritservices.com/premarin.html)
If you're suffering from hormone imbalance symptoms, you may be suffering from a number of other symptoms of low progesterone levels as well. Below is the link to a page that goes into greater detail on the symptoms of low progesterone. You might want to check it out.
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