Will menopause cause headaches?

When menopause comes, it will cause some unnecessary troubles to your body. The most common one is that you will feel bursts of pain in your head, and it will also make you feel very depressed, anxious and uneasy, and even your movements will become very slow. Therefore, you may need to take some drugs to treat menopause in order to properly relieve the symptoms.

Psychoneural symptoms:

Excitable type, irritable, easily agitated, insomnia, inattention, multi-talking, loud crying, etc.

Depressive type, irritability, anxiety, inner uneasiness, memory loss, slow movement, low mood, etc.

Vasomotor symptoms, hot flashes and flushes are characteristic symptoms of women entering perimenopause, and 82% of patients have this symptom for one year.

Cardiovascular symptoms: 28.9% of patients have pseudo-angina, sometimes accompanied by palpitations, chest tightness, etc. The occurrence of symptoms is often affected by mental factors. In addition, about 15.2% of patients have mild hypertension, which is characterized by increased systolic blood pressure, not high diastolic blood pressure, paroxysmal attacks, dizziness, headache, chest tightness, and palpitations when blood pressure rises.

Skin tension decreases, and it becomes dry and thinner.

Mid-term menopausal syndrome (post-menopause):

Atrophic urethritis may cause difficulty urinating, pain in the urethral opening, frequent urination, urgency, and incontinence (even leakage of urine when laughing, coughing, or sneezing), but no pyuria.

Senile vaginitis: 30% of postmenopausal women will develop senile vaginitis, the main symptoms of which are increased leucorrhea, vulvar itching, and vaginal burning sensation.

Uterine prolapse, bladder and rectal prolapse, accompanied by urinary retention, urinary incontinence, and difficulty in defecation.

Late stage of menopausal syndrome:

Postmenopausal osteoporosis

Some patients may experience bone pain, joint pain or local tenderness, but no redness, swelling or heat. Vertebral, distal radius, and hip fractures may occur, as well as spinal deformity, shortening, and tooth loss.

Cardiovascular disease, postmenopausal cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, their causes are partly related to postmenopausal estrogen deficiency.

Atherosclerosis of the cerebral arteries and carotid arteries and an increased incidence of Alzheimer's disease.

In reality, many people believe that menopause refers to the menopausal period. In fact, these are two medical concepts with completely different meanings. Menopause refers to a period of transition from the decline of gonadal function to its complete loss in women, while menopause simply refers to the cessation of menstruation.

There is a stage of gradual ovarian decline before menopause, which lasts about 2 to 4 years, and the length varies in different people. It is called premenopause. After menopause, ovarian function becomes even lower, but it does not necessarily disappear completely immediately. It usually takes 2 to 3 years, but sometimes it can last up to 6 to 8 years, or even longer. Therefore, menopause is the sum of premenopause, menopause and postmenopause, so some scholars call it "perimenopause".