Am I in a Female Menopausal Climacteric State?

You are a woman between 40 and 65. You may notice something is slowly changing in your body. Have you asked yourself: if you are in a Female Menopausal Climacteric state? Sounds horrible? I know the feeling. Some also call it perimenopause – the period before the real menopause starts. Before that you are just a climacteric woman or a perimenopausal woman. I am not sure which word sounds better. Anyway In this post I will look into menopausal female climacteric states and the first symptoms.

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In my previous post I explained what ia climacteric woman is. Today I will address the most common climacteric symptoms.

Climacteric symptoms

So what are the first climacteric symptoms? I do not know about you, but I noticed I was more tired than normal and found it hard to sleep at night. For the first time I could wake up in the middle of the night dripping wet from sweating. I had vivid dreams and had to open the windows on full to cool down. Sounds familiar? Chances are that you may have climacteric symptoms.

Climacteric Hormons

Since Climacteric is often connected to hormon imbalance it is important for you to know a thing or two about the hormons that is affected by the climacteric. I will try to make this very simple for you.

Hormons are divided into two categories: Steroids and Proteins

Changes in hormon levels in your body lead to changes in your body.

Estrogen – The hormone that prepares a young girl for puberty and getting pregnant and regulate the menstrual period. The so called fertility hormone or sex hormone as it is also called. This is a stereoid hormon.

Progestogeron: This hormone is also stereoid and connected to pregnancy, menstruation and sex

Testosterone In females testosteron is produced in the ovaries while in men it is produced in testes. It may not come as a big bomb to you that testosterone is also a stereoid hormone.

This is usually known as the male climacteric hormone connected to puberty, muscle growth, sex and bone density.

Cortisol: Fight and flight hormon or stress hormon connected with the bloodsugar levels and the heart.

Melatonin: It is shortly told a hormon that regulates your sleep rythm.

Collagen: A protein hormon that affects the tissues in your body like your skin, bones and muscles to mention the most relevant to climacteric.

Female climacteric state symptoms in the early stage

I discussed this topic with several female friends of mine who are around 50 years of age. All of them noticed changes after 45 especially regarding hot flashes. But what are the most common symptoms in an early stage of Female climacteric?

Male climacteric Symptoms

Men also go through climacteric and this is normally called the andropause and often describes a period of drop in testosterone production and levels in the body. Not all men experience the climacteric while all women do.

What is the difference between Female climacteric and Male climacteric?

Female climacteric results in a total stop of reproductivity. Your period stops permanently and you are not able to get pregnant. For a man it does not stop their reproductivity.

Do all women get post climacteric symptoms?

No, not all women get post climacteric symptoms. According to National Center for biotechnology 20-25% of women does not have any post climacteric syptoms. Consider yourself lucky if you do not get any symptoms. I will shortly go through some common symptoms that you may experience in your climacteric.

The most common symptoms are:

1. Climacteric Headache

Do you experience sudden headaches? Some women experience sudden headaches in the early stage. However, headache is quite common and can be related to a lot of different mental, emotional and physical states. It does not have to be a post climacteric symptom, but It can be for some women. I have never used to have headaches in my life. Then I suddenly had these sudden strong headaches that just occured out of nowhere and with no relation to any specific cause. It lasted just a period and it went over. (photo: unsplash)

 

 

2. Climacteric Bloating

 

Have you noticed your stomach is full of air, constipated or loose? It can be your hormones, but it can also be other natural causes like the food you eat, how much you drink, medicines, stress, food intolerance and much more. However hormone imbalance can cause bloating and is regarded as a quite typical symptom of post climacteric and menopause. Both men and women may experience bloating in their climacteric. ( photo: Pexels)

 

 

 

3. Climacteric energy and fatigue

 

Feeling awfully tired? Both men and women can get a feeling of low energy and fatigue in the post climacteric state. I think this is maybe the most common symptom.

 

4. Climacteric forgetfulness

Have you found yourself forgetting things lately that you normally remember? Do you forget where you put your car keys or what you did yesterday? Due to a lack of sleep during climacteric many may experience becoming more forgetful.

5. Climacteric Hot flashes and chills

Do you feel like a wandering red hot mama? This is a very typical climacteric menopause symptom for many women. How often do you wake up in the night feeling uncomfortably warm in your face, neck and chest? And your bed is maybe wet from sweat too. You open the windows or take a cold shower, but it does not help. Even in the day rushes of heat is felt and you feel like a wandering red hot chili pepper. (photo: Unsplash)

The next moment you may feel like a freezing pin. For some women this can actually become a real night and day mare. Especially if the hot flashes are intense and a daily phenomenon. It can disturb your sleep severly which is of course not a good thing. If you are struggling with sleep due to hot flashes you should go to consult your doctor about it before it develops into more severe health conditions.

 

6. Climacteric Hairloss

Getting thinner hair?

With hormon imbalance your hair will very likely be impacted too. You may experience your hair become thinner and more dry because your androgen and estrogen hormons drop. (photo: Pexels)

7. Climacteric Abnormal hairgrowth

 

Do you get hair growing on places you normally do not have hair growth or hair growing abnormally? Hormons can sometimes cause abnormal hairgrowth in the face, back, stomach, chest and thighs.

 

8. Climacteric Leg pain – swollen legs, spider veins or varicose veins

Are your legs swollen? Do you have pain in your legs? Or Are you experiencing a feeling of heavyness while walking? Are your veins starting to show as spider nets or more visible veins sticking out from your skin? It could be varicose veins. If you feel this ,you should go to the doctor to take a closer look at your symptoms and to see if it is varicose veins. Varicose veins can be very painful.

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9. Climacteric digestive problems

When your estrogen starts to get lower your cortisol levels are normally getting higher. This leads to a release of adrenaline in your body. This is often the cause of Climacteric digestive problems like bloating, constipation, dhiarreah and general unwellness in the stomach.

10. Climacteric snoring

Climacteric snoring is maybe not so common, but some women experience that they start snoring already in the post climacteric state. Some studies about snoring suggest this is connected to overweight and that if you have a high BMI you are more likely to snore. (photo: unsplash)



 

11. Climacteric sleep

Laying awake? Can not sleep? Turning and twisting constantly in your bed to find a good sleeping position? Sleepless nights are another typical symptom.

It impacts your mood and your whole day if you do not get enough sleep.

It also affect your memory and your physical body in many ways.

Sleep is connected to the hormone Melatonin.

 

 

12. Climacteric Incontinence

 

Are you afraid of doing physical efforts in case of urine loss? Are you experiencing vaginal itching?

Do you feel like being not too far away from a toilet because you often need to go?

You wake up in the nights with a strong urge to go to the toilet. Do you wake up in the morning with wet underpants?

Are you afraid to drink water, coffe or other fluids in case of urine loss?

Does stress make you have a urine loss? Are you experience no control over your bladder when you sneeze?

Most women do not talk about this issue because it is assosciated with shame.

Many do not even talk to their doctor about it. Maybe you are feeling the same about it. You hesitate to talk to your doctor or stop doing physical efforts you know leads to urine loss. You try to go places where you know there is a toilet just in case you feel the need to go. You wake up several times in the night and have to go to the bathroom and you may find yourself waking up having wet underpants and a wet madrass. You feel dry and itching in your vagina from time to time too.

These are all signs of climacteric Incontinence. You should definitely talk to your doctor about it. For some women it happens more often than others and can become a big issue. In the medical dictionary incontinence is defined as inability to control exretory functions and immoderation or excess.

Stress incontincene happens when you do physical efforts, sneeze, coughs or laughing. Urge incontinence happens instantly as a strong urge to go to the toilet (photo: unsplash)

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13. Climacteric Skin imbalance

 

Have you noticed some changes in your skin lately in your face, genital areas or lower limbs?

Due to changes in estrogen levels you will often experience changes in the skin in these three areas, because it is here you have most of your estrogen receptors. Your estrogen levels affect your face color, the moist of your skin, your skin thickness, elasticity of your skin, wound healing, itching, firmness of your skin, wrinkles, sagging and much more

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14. Climacteric depression

Are you feeling more low lately? Climacteric depression happens to many women. It is important to contact your doctor or talk to someone about it. (Photo: Unsplash)

 

 

14. Climacteric Mood

Noticed you become more moody? Due to fluctuation of hormons in the climacteric your mood will swing accordingly. For some, moodswings can become a real problem.

Suddenly you can start crying for no reason, become angry and ill tempered, you may snap at people or laugh of stupid things you never used to laugh of. (photo: Unsplash)

15. Climacteric sex feeling

The female Climacteric state is also assosciated with a decrease in sex drive. The feeling to have sex is lower because of your changing hormons.

Also men experience this through climacteric. (photo: unsplash)

 

 

 

16. Climacteric Dryness in Vagina

A change in estrogen levels may lead to dryness and soreness in or around vagina and you feel pain when having sex. An urge to urinate more often is also connected to vaginal dryness.

17. Climacteric Period imbalance

Do you have a regular period or do you experience period irregularities?

Many women get period irregularities and this is often a symptom that menopause is just around the corner.

(photo: unsplash)

18. Climacteric itches

 

Climacteric itches is connected to vaginal dryness and skin imbalance due to lower estrogen levels.

19. Climacteric Period pain

Do you get cramps or intense pain, sore breasts, headache or joint pain during your period? These are symptoms of climacteric period pain.

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20. Climacteric Panic Attacks

Some panic attacks can be caused by menopause.It happens when your Hormones are in flux and there need not be any specific reason to the panic attacks. (photo: unsplash)

 

 

 

 

21. Climacteric Dizziness

Have you experienced loosing your balance while walking?

If so you should contact a doctor Climacteric or menopause is normally not the cause of dizziness and can be symptoms of other underlying medical states.

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If you are between 40 and 65 and have any of these symptoms you may be a climacteric woman.

To really know, you should contact your regular doctor to find out. You can also go to check your symptoms in one of the symptomcheckers online.

Online Symptomcheckers

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~Hilde

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20 thoughts on “Am I in a Female Menopausal Climacteric State?”

  1. What an eye opening website. I never would’ve guessed that menopause is the reason for hot flashes. I didn’t know that men can experience some climacteric symptoms. That’s pretty cool how someone could just stop getting their period and never have to worry about it again. Some of the symptoms for this are the same as the symptoms for pregnancy. Do some people accidentally mistake climacteric for being pregnant? Hair loss does not sound like fun. How common is it for someone to experience hair loss?

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    • Hi Lex! Glad you like my site. Thank  you for your thoughts around this matter. I think the reason you may not know is because climacteric is not something that is being talked to much about. I guess some think it is cool when the period stops while others feel the opposite because they can not have more children of their own. Personally I look forward to it. Yes since pregnancy is also associated with fluctuations in hormons I guess some may think they are pregnant. I am not sure if that happens very often. Hairloss is no fun especially for women. Hairloss is quite common. As much as 40-50% of women experience it,

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  2. wow! I never knew about all of these climacteric stuff. For many years I have tried to understand how my body works since I have a lot of issues already. There are always new information to find online.. But yeah, I think I can’t just take all those symptoms as climacteric withouth any consultations with doctor. I mean, those can be also the sign of unhealthy habits. Anyway, thanks for sharing information about it. I find it most helpful. Helps a lot to understand myself and my body more.

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    • Hi Lana!  Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I am glad you found my article helpful for understanding yourself. If you have any  issues you should definitely consult with a doctor to find the cause of your problems. 

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  3. I am startled! Such a fruitful article. I honestly thought that men cannot experience Menopausal Climacteric. One cannot say they have enough information about a topic. I learned a lot from the topic. Since one can stop having periods, does this mean it lowers the chances for one to get pregnant?

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    • Hi Ezra! Thank you for commenting on my article! Great question.Well yes normally when a woman have not had a period for a while it more or less means that there are no more eggs in the ovaries and does not release estrogen anymore.  A woman who stops having the period is normally recommended to use prevention for 12 months after her latest period just in case. I hope that answered your question.

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  4. I am doing so much research on this subject because I am heading there. And I am really terrified of this subject. Because My husband is younger than me and I know that losing my sex drive could affect us. Is there any natural food, spices, or herbs that I could take to prevent or help me cope with climacteric menopause? Because I am not a big fan of chemical supplements.

    Thanks

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    • Hi Adyn! Thank you for your view and question. I can totally relate to what you are saying. First of all I have to say that you should consult your doctor if you have any symptoms. I know many are not so eager to go on hormons so I am writing on a new post right now about some helpful organic nutrition that might help you feel better. My next post will be out very soon so if you sign up to my newsletter you will get a mail weekly with my latest posts.

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  5. Hello Hilde, 

    Thanks for sharing this article. I have so much that I’ve learned here and it’s so much to takes down at once, so I’ll bookmark this article so I can get back to it. Most people do not know the symptoms of the menopausal climactic and its really not have. I am happy to be here and I know some people who will be delighted to see this article. 

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    • Hi Reece! Thank you for letting me know. Yes it is a lot of info and a whole science in itself. Lol. I would appreciate it if you share it with someone who needs to hear it.

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  6. Hey 

    Thank you for this useful information, my self I didn’t know if menopausal it also happens for men, but thank fo being clear here,.You have mentioned a lot of symptoms. But guess what? I have discovered some symptom faced to my wife many times like headache, bloating, hot flashes and chill and digestive system. Thank you for this valuable post I will conduct more research to discover more

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    • Hi Ramah! Yes for men it is called Andropause and can give many similat symptoms. If your wife have symptoms I hope she go to see a doctor about it. 

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  7. The list of climacteric changes is endless, I’m surprised what all I can expect but I still hope I won’t get many symptoms! I’m 53 and apart from being tired now and then without a reason, I feel great and I really hope I can keep my shape, hair volume, and overall health as it is. Being a big fan of healthy foods, herbs, spices but also natural supplements, I believe that what we eat and drink, as well as exercise and meditations can help us stay healthy. I really believe we are what we eat.
    However, it’s good to know about all the climacteric symptoms and see the doctor if anything goes wrong.

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  8. Thank you so very much for this post, I am a 56 year old woman, and I have never heard of climacteric state, however I have been through the pre-menopausal and full blown menopause, so this is a wonderful informative pot in which I will share with a couple of friends who are going through the climacteric state right now, the low energy, being tired all the time and not able to sleep.

    When I was going through this about 5 years ago, it was humiliating at work in meetings with men who didn’t understand what was going on with me, and I of course would not explain, because I knew they wouldn’t understand anyway. So thanks for this post, it was wonderful and very helpful for women who are climacteric, and are very confused.

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    • Hi Bobbi! Thank you very much for your thoughts. I can totally relate to what you say about not feeling understood and feeling they can not talk to anyone about it. It is not so easy. But I do think it is the only way. We need to talk more about it. Appreciate you will share my post.

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  9. Awesome article! Thanks for having a thorough information on this topic on your site. Though I have had of menopause and the several discomforts associated with it but climacteric no! There are lots of information I never heard of before now which you mentioned. I am in my early 40’s but I’m in no means expecting menopause in the next 20 years. My question:
    are there things we can do at that stage that may help reduce some of the discomfort. May be diet or exercise, just thinking….

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    • Hi Abby! Glad you ask! There are things we can do to feel better during menopause. However as with everything, it will not work for everyone. We are all different. You can get in the menopausal climacteric in your 40s too. 

      I am no advisor or doctor on this matter, but I believe what we eat, exercise, mindset and our lifestyle have a lot to say on how we experience this period.

      There are many remedies on the market and that is why I started this website. To look into different types of remedies, To talk more about Climacteric and menopause. I will share with you my findings and it is up to you to see if this can help you. But as always you need to consult a doctor if you have symptoms. I will adress this in upcoming posts. 

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