Because our female hormones can influence every cell in our bodies, there are many different symptoms that can occur when we move into Perimenopause or Menopause. Here is a comprehensive list of possible symptoms!
- Hot flashes, flushes, night sweats, and/or cold flashes and/or clammy feeling
- Irregular heart beat
- Irritability
- Mood swings, sudden tears
- Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats)
- Loss of libido
- Dry vagina
- Pain during sex
- Crashing fatigue
- Palpitations
- Foggy thinking
- Joint and/or muscle pain
- Anxiety, feeling ill at ease
- Feelings of dread, apprehension, doom
- Difficulty concentrating, disorientation, mental confusion
- Disturbing memory lapses
- Incontinence, especially upon sneezing or laughing or urge incontinence
- Itchy, crawly skin
- Aching, sore joints, muscles and tendons
- Increased tension in muscles
- Breast tenderness
- Headache change: increase or decrease
- Gastrointestinal distress, indigestion, flatulence, gas pain, nausea
- Sudden bouts of bloating
- Depression
- Worsening of existing conditions
- Increase in allergies
- Weight gain
- Hair loss or thinning on head, in pubic area, or over whole body; increase in facial hair
- Dizziness, light-headedness, episodes of loss of balance
- Changes in body odor
- Electric shock sensation under the skin and in the head
- Tingling in the extremities
- Gum problems, increased bleeding
- Burning tongue, burning roof of mouth, bad taste in mouth, change in breath odor
- Changes in fingernails: softer, crack or break more easily
- Tinnitus: ringing in ears, bells, ‘whooshing,’ buzzing, etc.
