The common pre menopause symptoms include weight gain, headaches and migraines besides fatigue as well as mood swings and a low sex drive. Other symptoms are depression, irritability besides the inability to handle stress. There may be occurrence of fibrocystic breasts and uterine fibroids, besides endometriosis in some cases. The pre menopause symptoms also include low metabolism, besides a craving for caffeine, sweets and carbohydrates. Some women may feel very sluggish in the morning, and have very unstable blood sugar as well as water retention. Hot flashes, vaginal dryness and irregular periods besides a pain in the joints or stiffness are the common factors.
To understand these symptoms, it is important to know why these pre menopause symptoms begin. This is because as women reach their 30′s or 40′s, they begin to experience a gradual slowdown in their reproductive cycle. This leads to a change in their hormonal balance, leading to having these symptoms.
This hormonal balance is related to stress levels, poor nutrition as well as environmental toxins which are found in our daily living. Without ovulation, a woman’s body does not produce progesterone.
Most women are not aware of the fact that it is the lack of progesterone which can cause pre menopause symptoms. Besides this deficit of progesterone in the body, most of the pre menopause women tend to experience a much higher than normal levels of estrogen. There are other factors too like poor diet, stress, obesity, besides lack of exercise, estrogen dominance, as well as toxins in the environment, as well as hormone imbalance which contribute to having menstrual cycles without ovulation. Without ovulation, the body cannot produce progesterone, and this creates hormone imbalance leading to pre menopause symptoms. Also, the body’s production of estrogen tends to vary, resulting in additional symptoms like breast swelling, tenderness as well as sleep disturbances.