| Early menopause often creeps up on women in | | | | menopause may be inherited. To learn if you are |
| their forties in uncomfortable ways. It may leave | | | | a candidate for early menopause, you would need |
| them feeling like they are suffering from a | | | | to talk to your female blood relatives to |
| chronic, if mild, case of the flu. It can wreak | | | | determine if they experienced it. If both your |
| havoc on their emotions by precipitating severe | | | | mother and her mother had early onset |
| mood shifts; and it can leave them absolutely | | | | menopause, there is a high probability that you will |
| bewildered about why they are feeling as they do. | | | | as well. |
| But early menopause is neither a physical nor | | | | The Advantages Of Early Menopause |
| emotional illness; it is simply a natural part of the | | | | While early menopause can eliminate the possibility |
| aging process. | | | | of childbirth for some women who were looking |
| Determining If You Are A Candidate For Early | | | | forward to raising families, there are other |
| Mopause | | | | women who find early menopause to be a |
| Early menopause is surprisingly common, and for | | | | blessing. Women who have moral objections to |
| those women who held off on starting families | | | | artificial forms of birth control, for example, will |
| because they were busy with careers or other | | | | find early menopause the perfect solution to their |
| responsibilities, it can be a most unwelcome | | | | desire not to have more children. |
| surprise. Many women, therefore, would benefit | | | | There are women who worry that early |
| from learning early in life if they are likely to | | | | menopause will bring more difficult symptoms |
| experience early menopause, so that they can | | | | than menopause which occurs at a later age. But |
| plan their families accordingly. | | | | the severity of menopausal symptoms is more a |
| Unfortunately, there is no definite indicator that | | | | result of your individual physiology than it is of the |
| one woman is more likely than the next to | | | | age at which menopause begins. If you are having |
| experience early menopause. The onset of | | | | real difficulty coping with early menopause, be |
| menopause is as unpredictable as the onset of a | | | | sure to consult your gynecologist to see if there |
| girl's first menstrual cycle, yet women would most | | | | is any form of relief. Medicine has made terrific |
| definitely benefit if they could prepare for early | | | | advances since the times when women simply |
| menopause. | | | | had to live with the symptoms of menopause, so |
| There is one hope: the tendency to early | | | | be sure you take advantage of them! |