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menopause
what is menopause?
when your older and your periods stop forever?
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Like the previous columnist said. In easy terms, menopause is when you cease having periods for the rest of your life. You endure PMS-like symptoms (but not necessarily PMS), including hot flashes. Menopause comes around usually between the ages of 45-55.
Defined as when you run out of eggs in the ovaries, thus no more periods. You have millions of eggs in your ovaries when you are born. So you are good for awhile!
Estrogen also stops being produced, which is the result of the infamous osteoprosis, because estrogen is what helps keep your bones dense.
As a result of the following, you are recommended to go on hormone therapy until menopause is over. During and after Menopause, they'll probably do tests to see how dense your bones are and recommend taking calcium supplements or those pills and injections you see all the time on TV.
I hope I covered the basics for you =]
Leah
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Menopause, as MedicineNet describes, is the absence of menstrual periods for 12 months. Premenopause means the time before menopause (this is a transitioning cycle). Postmenopause is the entire period of time that comes after the last menstrual period.
The ovary, reproductive glands, cease in women when menopause comes around.
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