What Are the First Symptoms of Menopause?
Although women vary as to which symptoms they exhibit, most women have the following symptoms as the first sign of menopause: Change in periods: This is the most common sign that menopause has arrived. Women’s menstrual cycles become less regular. For most, the periods will be lighter and shorter, but some women have heavier bleeding than normal and this is a common symptom. A change in a woman’s cycle could also be that it happens less than three weeks from the previous one or one that lasts ten days or more. You should always check with your doctor to ensure that there is no underlying medical causes for these changes. Hot flashes: Hot flashes occur when a woman suddenly feels extreme heat in her upper body. Her face and neck can show flushing so that it looks obvious to others. Red blotches can appear too on her arms, chest and back. Heavy sweating sometimes follows the hot flashes followed by cold shivers. Some women feel the hot flashes more severely than others. For some the hot
