What is golden age or menopause?

What is golden age or menopause?

          The golden age is one of the ages of life, which begins from infancy, childhood, adolescence, middle age, menopause. For adolescence and menopause, these are ages when the ovaries produce less and irregular hormones, causing irregular menstruation. During menopause, the ovaries work less, resulting in less hormone production (estrogen, progesterone), which leads to unstable menstruation (some have more, some have less, or some have often.). This hormone helps with menstruation, pregnancy, bone strength, and decrease cholesterol levels.

When will the golden age begin?

          Women from 30 years old up to 50 years old can be in menopause. The average age is 51 years old. Smokers go through menopause earlier than non-smokers. People who have had ovaries removed can go through menopause immediately after ovaries have been cut.

What are the warning signs of menopause?

          When estrogen and progesterone levels drop, it can cause many symptoms. Some have more symptoms, but some have less (the effect of estrogen on the body). The symptoms may take a few months to disappear but on average, it takes about 4 years.

Symptoms are as follows:

1. Irregular menstruation: such as coming early, coming late, coming more, coming less, coming for a long time.
2. High body temperature: The patient will have high temperature, especially the upper part of the body, cheeks, neck, back, followed by sweating and chills at night. This symptom lasts 1-5 minutes.
3. The vagina and bladder problems: as estrogen levels drop, the vaginal mucosa becomes dry and thin. Patients experience pain during intercourse and have more frequent vaginal infections. There is also the issue of urinary incontinence when coughing or sneezing.
4. Contraception. Contraceptives should be used for at least 1 year after the last menstrual period. Some patients will have decreased sexual feelings, but some people have higher sex drive.
5. Problems with sleeping, difficulty of falling asleep, waking up early, waking up at night and sweating. The patient will complain of being tired.
6. Mood unstable and easy anger.
7. Physical changes: the waist will be larger. There will be fatter, and skin begins to wither.
8. Other problems: such as headache, memory loss, and body aches.

Golden age and disease

           When going through menopause, there will be many diseases at this age, such as heart disease, osteoporosis, and breast cancer. No one can predict who will have such diseases. However, we might consider from the risk factors that any golden age person has risk factors for any disease. Therefore, those who are in the golden or menopausal age, you must know the following information in order to decide to receive supplement hormones.

• Details about heart disease, osteoporosis, and breast cancer
• Risk factors for each disease
• The effects of hormone replacement therapy.

Diseases that often occur with menopause

• Osteoporosis
• Coronary heart disease and stroke
• Breast cancer

What do you have to do when you are in the golden age?

• Eat foods with high calcium and reduce fat.
• Reduce risk factors for heart disease.
• Stop smoking and drinking alcohol.
• Use a lubricant before sex.
• Check the breast and cervical cancer every year.

Treatment of menopausal diseases without hormones

          Before receiving hormone replacement therapy, the severity of diseases-associated menopause, such as high body temperature or osteoporosis, must be assessed and compared to the risk of hormone-induced diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Moreover, you need to consider whether there are other options for treatment these conditions.

If you have symptoms of high body temperature, how to solve it?

• Stay in cool area when symptoms begin to heat up.
• Sleep in a cool room.
• Drink cold water when you feel hot.
• Avoid spicy and hot food.
• Avoid alcohol.
• Avoid stress. When you are stress, you should take long breaths and calm down.
• If it's cold, you can wear several layers. If it's hot, it can be removed layer by layer.
• Some doctors recommend the use of vitamins. E, which reduces symptoms by 40%, clonidine, and an SSRI antidepressant, such as Prozac and Zoloft.
• Eat foods containing soybeans, which can reduce body heat.

Vaginal dryness, pain during intercourse, and urinary incontinence. How to solve them?

• The tissues of the vagina and bladder will atrophy, causing such symptoms. If there are contraindications for taking hormone replacement therapy, or patients do not want to take the risk of hormones, patients can use vaginal estrogen. The level of drug in the blood is less than 1 in 4 of the oral type, but it will be more effective on the vagina than the oral type for 4 times. In the first use of the drug, you can apply it every day, after that, you apply it 2-3 times a week or depending on the situation or adjustment of the patient.
• Some people may also use moisturizer medications to the vagina without tissue thickening.
• Patients can use of SSRI antidepressants, which alter serotonin levels in the brain, reducing symptoms of depression.

Hormone replacement therapy in menopausal patients

          Before receiving hormone replacement therapy, the severity of diseases-associated menopause, such as high body temperature or osteoporosis, must be assessed and compared to the risk of hormone-induced diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Moreover, you need to consider if there are other alternative treatment for these conditions. Some patients in menopausal stage, doctors will give oral contraceptives, which have many advantages, such as making consistent menstruation, reduction of body heat, reduction of the incidence of ovarian cancer. For the disadvantage, you do not know if your period has finished or not. If you are in doubt, you can stop taking birth control pills for 4-5 months and observe if your period comes. If you are really in the menopausal stage, doctors will consider giving hormones that contain estrogen and progesterone. The good effect is to reduce symptoms and prevent osteoporosis, as well as prevent heart disease. However, you should be careful of complications, namely hepatitis, high triglyceride fat, breast cancer, or Phytoestrogen.

Many plants, such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, and soybeans, contain substances that function like estrogen, but they are not recommended as a treatment because of their efficacy and side effects.