Anxiety
Symptoms in Detail
Anxiety is a common symptom of menopause
It's a feeling of being continually worried or tense.
When is anxiety more than just worry?
Anxiety is a constant sense of worry over normal everyday events that are out of proportion to the degree of concern they merit.
It’s a difficult feeling to shake off, leaving you feeling irritable and constantly on edge.
For some, it can lead to sleeplessness and other symptoms of peri/menopause such as headaches and memory lapses.
The link between anxiety and menopause
Often women suffer from anxiety earlier than the onset of other symptoms of peri/menopause such as hot flushes, so they don’t associate it with hormonal shifts.
When female hormones begin to fluctuate in the early stages of perimenopause, estrogen levels can peak and trough but ultimately they start to diminish.
Estrogen plays an important part in managing the chemical activities in our brain.
When there are optimum levels of estrogen in the body you feel great, but when they are low your mood can plummet and anxiety can set in.
Know the 34 symptoms of menopause
Here are all of the documented symptoms of menopause you need to look out for:
Physical Symptoms
- Incontinence
- Changes in Body Odour
- Bouts of Rapid Heart Beat
- Breast Pain
- Headaches
- Joint Pain
- Itchy Skin
- Burning Mouth Syndrome
- Electric Shock Sensation
- Digestive Problems
- Gum Problems
- Increased Tension in Muscles
- Formication - Crawly Skin
- Paresthesia - Numbness in Hands and Feet
- Osteoporosis - After Several Years
