Am I in Menopause?
As egg supplies reach their end, menopause symptoms often begin.
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Breast Tenderness and Menopause
Breast pain and tenderness after ovulation is due to an increase in the hormone progesterone. Breast tenderness during menopause is due to a hormone imbalance.
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Surgical Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Why you need estrogen, progesterone, and other reproductive hormones.
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Getting Pregnant During Menopause
Until menopause is officially complete, you can still get pregnant!
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Endometrial Cancer Symptoms
The most common symptom caused by endometrial cancer is abnormal vaginal
bleeding. This bleeding may at first look watery and slightly bloody
and could soon develop into heavier vaginal bleeding.
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Ovarian Volume Testing
A woman has her peak number of eggs (oocytes) before she is born. All
during a woman's life, the eggs are decreasing and tens of thousands of
eggs are lost every year of a woman's life.
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Prime Women's Health
Menopause is defined as the absence of your menstrual period for 1 year. Menopause usually happens between 40 and 55 years of age, and one-half of women experience it before the age of 51.
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Questions About Your Chances of Getting Pregnant
When women are trying to conceive, they often have questions regarding their chances of getting pregnant. There are several factors that come into play when it comes to getting pregnant.
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12 Ways to Relieve Hot Flashes During Menopause
One of the worst symptoms is the dreaded hot flash.
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Premature Ovarian Aging or Insufficiency
Learn the difference!
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Perimenopause Symptoms
The “change of life” is actually perimenopause.
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Early Menopause
Early menopause can hit in the 20s, 30s, or early 40s.
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Menopause Symptoms
As you reach 40, you may begin thinking about menopause.
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Keep Grandma Mentally Sharp; Let Her Babysit One Day a Week
Good news for grandma! Researchers recently discovered that
postmenopausal grandmothers who babysit their grandchildren one day a
week score highest on tests of mental acuity.
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The Relationship Between PMS and Pregnancy
Researchers are still not sure why many women get post-menstrual symptoms (PMS), but they are sure that there is no reliable relationship between PMS and pregnancy.
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How Menopause Affects Bone Mass
As the female body ages, estrogen levels decline and so does bone mass.
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Post-Menopause – After the Change of Life
As women age, they often anticipate menopause. After 40 years of monthly cycles, there is little reason not to want menopause to start and get it over with ASAP!
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Male Menopause
Changing hormone levels are linked to female menopause and the movement out of reproductive years. For men, reproductive years tend to last much longer, but hormone changes can greatly affect erectile function and libido from about 50 years of age on.
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Pregnancy After Menopause: Is It Possible?
Can you get pregnant after the change?
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Alternative Treatment for Menopause
Here are some non-estrogen options!
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Menopause Exercises
Daily exercising can be one of the most important treatments.
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Menopause Diet
9 tips to create a healthy menopause diet
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How Menopause Affects Your Mood
One of the least expected symptoms of menopause are mood swings.
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Menopause and Sleep
As you enter menopause, you may find sleep very dfficult.
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Home Testing for Menopause
FSH, or follicle-stimulating hormone, values climb as you reach menopause.
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Diagnosing Menopause
Learn the common symptoms of menopause.
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A Soy Savvy Pregnancy: Is Soy Helpful or Harmful to Health?
Some researchers have cautioned against consumption of soy protein, reporting findings that soy increases the risk of breast cancer. This, however, is not the case.
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Introduction to Endometrial Cancer: Causes and Risk Factors
Endometrial cancer develops in the lining of the uterus, also called the
endometrium. Endometrial cancer is the most common form of uterine
cancer.
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Cancer and Fertility in Women
Cancer can be a heart breaking thought for the woman who has yet to start a family. With the help of the cancer treatment team and advanced fertility options, motherhood is not out of the question in all cancer cases.
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Clomiphene Challenge Test (CCT)
Who should get tested using the Clomiphene Challenge Test (CCT)?
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More Than 5 Million Men May Suffer from MANopause
Male menopause is commonly referred to as manopause. Though menopause was once thought of as a female change of life, men are noticing changes in their bodies as early as 35 years of age including reduced sex drive and energy. As the body ages, testosterone production slows down causing men to lose a bit of that manliness.
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Menopause and Sex
There are no more periods to deal with every month, so sex should be
fantastic...right? Women nearing menopause years or those in menopause
often find this dream of a renewed sexual energy and vigor depressed by
the realities of menopause.
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58-YO Woman To Give Birth to Daughter’s Daughter
Fifty-eight-year-old Julia Navarro of Provo, Utah, is about to become a grandmother for the first time.
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Does Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Change at Menopause?
Researchers are looking at how male hormone levels change as women with PCOS grow older.
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Are BRCA 1/2 Mutations Associated with Early Onset Menopause?
Researchers from the Department of Obstetrics at UC San Francisco
recently published a study testing a possible connection between BRCA 1
and BRCA 2 mutations and early onset menopause.
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What are the Risk Factors for Fibroids?
Fibroids development occurs when cells, genetically different from
other uterine cells, multiply to create a mass. The mass can develop
within the uterine wall, in the uterine cavity or on the outside wall of
the uterus.
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How are Fibroids Treated?
After being diagnosed with fibroids or uterine fibroids, treatment is
discussed with the patient. There is a long list of treatment options,
with a specific treatment plan individualized including one or more
treatments for each patient.
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Grandmother Hypothesis: How Menopause Shaped Human Evolution
The “grandmother hypothesis” suggests monogamy and longevity exist today because grandmothers of long, long ago stopped being fertile decades before they reached the end of their natural lifespans.
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Postcoital Bleeding (Bleeding After Intercourse)
Bleeding after intercourse, also referred to as postcoital bleeding, describes vaginal bleeding or spotting experienced during or after sex which is not related to your menstrual period.
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Physical Activity During Pregnancy Saves Bone Mass
According to a study published in the Archives of Gynecology and
Obstetrics, women who exercise regularly protect bone mass during
pregnancy by doing so.
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Post-Menopausal Bleeding
With the most common cause of postmenopausal bleeding being vaginal or endometrial atrophy, there is always a concern of the presence of endometrial cancer, as 10% of women with PMB have the disease.
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Lab Surprise Hints at Improved Fertility Options for POI
Lab surprise hints at improved fertility options for POI, and it changed the scope of study for the pleasantly surprised scientist who discovered it.
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Healthy DNA Delay Menopause Extend Fertile Years
An extensive international study found that how the body handles DNA repair throughout a lifetime affects the timing of fertility decline and the onset of menopause.
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Hormones and Endometrial Cancer in Postmenopausal Women
Past studies have proven a direct relationship between obesity and
increased risk of endometrial cancer. Researchers from National Cancer
Institute and National Institutes of Health recently published the
results of the study in the journal Endocrine-Related Cancer.
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ART Outcome in Menopausal Women with Endometriosis
The idea of the study was to investigate the impact of endometriosis on assisted outcome in menopausal women with endometriosis.
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone Infertility Test
The urine FSH Tests detect elevated high FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) levels, and elevated FSH levels are associated with decreased fertility.
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Missed Menstrual Periods And Amenorrhea
On average, women have between 11 and 13 menstrual cycles, or periods, each year. For some women, 11 is far too many and others would love to have only 13 periods.
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Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Test
The FSH Urine Test is a test kit for the determination of FSH (human Follicular Stimulating Hormone) concentration in urine specimens.
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Hot Flashes
The term hot flash is one most women in menopause are familiar with. Hot flashes are characterized by a sudden rise in body heat focused on the upper half of the body. Racing heart beat, sweating, and nausea are also common symptoms associated with the typical menopause hot flash.
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Menopause Alternative Treatments – 5 You Need to Know
At the end of a woman's reproductive life, there is menopause. By the time women enter their menopause years, most are finished having children and many have grandchildren running around. Natural menopause gradually reduces estrogen, progesterone, and other female hormone levels in the body.
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