What Are the Most Common Symptoms of Perimenopause?
If you are over the age of 40, certainly by now you have heard of the symptoms of menopause. But do you know what perimenopause is? It isn’t a commonly used word, but the symptoms of perimenopause are very common indeed! Perimenopause is simply the time leading up to eventual menopause, when the symptoms first start to appear. Menopause by definition is when a woman has had a time period of 12 consecutive months without a menstrual cycle, but this can take several years to actually reach. Each woman’s body is different, and the way her body reacts to the slow and steady decrease in female hormones (mainly estrogen and progesterone) is different as well. Actually perimenopause can begin as early as the 30’s for some women, or as late as the early-fifties. However the average age that symptoms begin is around 40. Since this is usually a very gradual process at first, some women misinterpret the symptoms at first. But here a few of the symptoms that you will find very common in most women
