By Adriana Sommer da Costa
Psychologist and Sexologist

Many women out there as entering into the menopause believe that would get sick, feeling-so pretty downcast, which certainly is a sign that they’re indeed “getting old”.  There is, however, a criterion that defines its diagnosis, which is the fact of the woman bearing no menstrual flow during a year o so.

This is the so-called period of amenorrhea, as in those women whose uterus and ovaries remain working, in spite of their low level of estradiol aka estrogen-the female sexual hormone. It’s imperative to make clear that the woman, every so often, may be caught off guard in its early onset otherwise known as per menopause. Most of all features lapses in the menstrual cycle, as irregular, from the odd inflow, much occasionally, all the way to the frequent harshly flush. Though that is not a rule neither mandatory, let alone facing it as a problem, all of which does make part of this new stage of life.

The age for that to ensue is not pre-established, in other words, let us say that it has a beginning, which would be likely from the age of 45, though not a rule, reaching eventually as far as the mid-fifties or thereabouts. It’s got nothing to do with sexual problems, but though with each and every human’s metabolism, whose biological rate, and we know it quite well, differs so much from one another.

Another profound aspect and that’s likely to catch up on the women’s reasoning, mulling over their heads relentlessly, regards climacteric. That’s right. Largely women have seemingly mind boggled as to whether menopause means the same as climacteric. As it so happens, climacteric stands for that sexual period in which there’s progressively decrease in the female reproductive capacity, then as a result, all women aged from 35 to 65, would be within climacteric sphere, without having it had anything to do with menopause. Before looking into the symptoms of menopause itself, let’s check out on what’s the most likely to spring from the lack of estrogen in the female metabolism. The estrogen for the woman may be deemed prime as a hormone, and so would ultimately the lack of it, which will indicate the symptoms of menopause, as for instance, and for one by all means the most popular, namely hot-flashes during daytime and breaking a sweat at night. As much as 80% of the women have a complaint of the so-called heatwave. Bear with me, its lack may unleash serious and quite unpleasant consequences. Physical alterations are just as many and range from the skin texture (causing loss in shine and elasticity), to the overall bodyfat percentage, which will shift greatly towards the belly’s whereabouts. Yet the sex organs are bound to undergo alterations of a sort, in that the lack of estrogen to single one out may cause vaginal dryness, which becomes less so lubricated, thus hampering and promoting distress in their sexual rapport altogether. In which point care taken during sexual intercourse means essential. So does the use of lubricants in penetrative sex.  Sex drive per se might endure  some rebounds with the advent of menopause, some women however, might as well benefit from it seemingly as a sexual boost,  from worryingly any longer about undesired pregnancy. Even more so since if were ever any kids, these would happen to find themselves in such phase unlikely to disturb their parent’s bedtime. So as we could notice this matter makes part of a cultural context.

Nevertheless, looking upon the situation of menopausal women, from a positive outlook, she might come to experiment more intensely orgasms, once her nerve pathway would wond up rather sensitive, due to the decrease in fat tissue of the fat layer in the vulva vicinity.

Women by and large do stand a better chance to boast up a new phase somewhat intensely manner-wise in her sexual life. That said all that imbalance as far as the woman’s emotional sphere concerns can cause a lagging hormonal-release must never go overboard. Further, the irritability and depression may sip into context at anytime, all of which comes directly related to the feeling of low self-esteem.

So what about osteoporoses? What happens is that the estrogen is responsible for the bone calcification and in its absence, post-menopause onset; many women may come to suffer from calcium loss coming to develop osteoporosis hence the plummeted in quality of life.

Even though you must be, by then, asking yourself where it fits in? It’s everything and elsewhere. Not because menopause as normal of the women’s biological spam a stage as natural that it does not require treatment. As a fact of matter, far from perceiving it as dysfunctional connotation-wise  so as to prevent backtracking, given that we’d been through it already, but so deal with it in the aim to dodge the nuisance overload within menopause emotional-luggage, and manage to achieve better quality of living. Thus the understanding of all that’s taking place within this phase, so does the quest for prevention against future concerns- being osteoporoses one of its mainstay, then adequate treatment would only just benefit and aid you woman. Those who are going through menopause as it were would be able to pull themselves together and rebuild self-esteem back from square one hence life equity in that would encompass both physical and emotional attributes.

Last but not least, there would be soon a second extract of this article, which will shed light on the importance of the hormonal replacement treatment.