What are the Symptoms of Menopause? Pt. III– Major Emotional

In this series of articles, we’ve covered the physical symptoms of menopause and the minor emotional and mental ones, too. In Part III, we noted that a large range of treatments, including natural remedies like black cohosh and soy isoflavones, exist, and we also noted that emotional and mental symptoms often experienced by women as they enter perimenopause don’t fit into major and minor categories like physical ones do. Instead, they mostly vary by intensity.

Consequently, they also vary as to how severely they can affect a woman’s life. When mood shifts involving sadness or irritability and mental disorder such as lack of concentration start to severely affect a woman’s life in serious ways, then the emotional and mental symptoms of perimenopause can be considered to be major. Once a symptom becomes major – perhaps irritability causes a lack of patience with coworkers – treatment is certainly the correct route to take.

When you do seek medical help for your symptoms, make sure to “own” your own body. Do research before you go; be prepared with questions. Not all of them, but some medical practitioners have a narrow view of treatment: HRT or nothing. Yet, medications often have severe side-effects of their own, and physicians must “play” with doses to get them just right This is one of the reasons that natural remedies such as black cohosh and soy isoflavones can be so useful –.these two (and many other) treatment options have few to no side effects at all. Just be prepared, and always consider alternatives to traditional medical therapies.

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