How often do you wake up at night to urinate? Never or only once? If you’ve reached menopause, that number can be much higher due to nocturia, a condition that makes you wake up repeatedly urinate. What exactly is nocturia? It is a condition in which you wake up in the middle of the night Read more…
Coping with menopause can entail adopting a healthy lifestyle that includes non-hormonal remedies for symptoms such as hot flashes. Everyone goes through menopause uniquely, and you may feel better with some non-hormonal approaches but not others. Some non-hormonal remedies can help with more than one menopausal symptom. This article discusses common non-hormonal approaches for managing Read more…
It all started in the summer of last year. July, to be precise. Kimberly and I were on our way to work. We grabbed coffee, sipped some, and continued. We were on foot, and the heat was very severe (It was July, of course, what did I expect?). Suddenly, I started to feel an unusual Read more…
Urinary incontinence is the unconscious and involuntary discharge of urine. It simply means that an individual urinates when they do not intend to. While you may see this problem as a rare condition, it is widespread, even in the United States. According to the American Urological Association research, about 25% to 33% of men and Read more…
Due to the symptoms such as hypertension, hot flashes, weight loss/gain e.t.c that are associated with menopause, various treatment options have been made available to help alleviate them. Of these treatment options, hormone replacement therapy has become very popular. The symptoms of menopause are caused by fluctuations in vital hormones like estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen, Read more…
Reaching the age of menopause is a milestone worth celebrating as an aging woman. You would undergo bodily changes during and after the period and need to adjust. And these changes may not be all that likable. Perimenopause (the period just before menopause) and menopause are the stages that mark the end of a woman’s Read more…
As a woman, your reproductive years refer to the phase of life where you can be pregnant if you have sex. This phase begins when you start menstruating (which marks the beginning of ovulation) to the period of menopause. Once you start menopause, you might experience bodily changes in lifestyle and health. These changes begin Read more…
I remember vividly this time seven years ago when I started experiencing signs of menopause. I was overwhelmed! The symptoms came all too sudden and unexpected, but I was able to manage them until I finally got into my menopause stage. Menopause made me realize the importance of healthy dieting. Before now, I ate junk Read more…
Menopause comes with detrimental symptoms capable of jeopardizing specific aspects of a woman’s life. No need to panic, though; we can handle it…right? You may have experienced or heard of one or two of these symptoms. But do you know all of it? While hot flashes and night sweats remain the most common, menopause still Read more…
Almost every woman today knows what menopause is. All over the world today, menopause is accepted to be the period of every woman’s life where she becomes unable to bear children. This termination of reproduction is attributed to the inability of the ovaries to produce eggs. As a woman gets older, her reproductive organs go Read more…
Having headaches, especially migraines, is common for women during hormonal fluctuations. A woman’s reproductive hormone (estrogen) is known to be closely related to the event of headaches. Therefore, the female may frequently or rarely experience migraines throughout her reproductive life, depending on individual body makeup. Due to this hormone factor, health statistics show that the Read more…
Many women are at a loss as to what menopause is all about. They do not know what symptoms they may experience, and even if it is clear, they do not know how to handle them. The situation is even worse for their spouses, who are none the wiser. Menopause is usually a challenging period Read more…
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