Premenopause - Waking Nightmare or Vibrant Living

The years between thirty and fifty are usually considered the prime of life.

So premenopause is a term that sounds too much like menopause for most women to seriously consider.

Nonetheless, this is when premenopause problems begin to affect many western women.

The result--

Their lives can truly become living nightmares!

Usually the symptoms begin gradually and build slowly making them even more difficult to pinpoint and resolve.

So, many times before you start looking for help- you're already living the premenopause nightmare.

Instead of meeting each day full of energy and enthusiasm, you're living in a fog of fatigue and depression. Life seems to get more overwhelming with each passing day.

Usually this is one of the busiest times of life, so you may be juggling many conflicting roles.

You are wife, mother, daughter, and professional all at once, and it seems there just isn't enough energy to meet all the demands--

You realize something isn't quite right with your body, but you're too busy to think about it, let alone do anything about it.

Let's consider some of the problems you're struggling with first...

Waking up in the Nightmare

• You seem to be getting old faster-
  
• You've developed allergies of some kind, maybe rashes, hay fever, asthma, or something similar-
  
• you've developed PMS and it seems to be getting worse every month-
  
• your breasts are tender part, or all, of the time-
  
• your hands and feet are cold-
  
• your eyes are dry-
  
• you don't feel much like having intimate relations-
  
• you've gained weight even though your eating habits haven't changed-
  
• you're tired all the time-
  
• you realize you're irritable a lot-
  
• you're doctor says you have hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
  
• even though you're dead tired when you go to bed, you can't sleep-
  
• you have trouble remembering things more than ever before-
  
• your periods have gotten irregular,or you spot in between-
  
• you get headaches frequently-
  
• you feel like your get up and go has long gone-
  
• you feel bloated all the time-
  
• your hair is getting noticeably thinner-
  
• you're depressed-
  
• you're always worried or anxious-

• you have fibrocystic breasts
  
• you have cervical dysplasia (irregular cells in the cervical lining)
  
• you have gallbladder disease
  
• your thyroid isn't working right
  
• your blood is too thick
  
• you're low in magnesium
  
• you have too much copper
  
• you're low in zinc
  
• you have poly-cystic ovaries
  
• your bones are thinning
  
• you have uterine fibroids

Or worst case scenario...

• you have breast cancer
  
• you have uterine cancer
  
• you have an autoimmune disease like lupus or hyperthyroidism

All of these problems can also be called pre menopause symptoms, and for further discussion please explore the preceding link.

Understanding the Underlying Problem

This imbalance is known as estrogen dominance. If you've never heard that term before it simply means that you have more estrogen circulating in your body than you have progesterone to balance it.

This problem has several possible causes.

1. During the premenopause years the hormone levels in your body naturally begin to fluctuate somewhat as they do when girls enter puberty, only in the opposite direction.
   
   
2. many times during premenopause although you may continue to have normal periods, your ovaries may not be releasing an egg. Doctors call this "anovulatory cycles". If you are having this type of cycle, your body never starts producing progesterone during the second half of your cycle as it should.

   This results in higher levels of estrogen in your body on an ongoing basis, instead of only half your cycle. But, your body was designed to be high in estrogen during the first two weeks of your cycle, and high in progesterone during the last two weeks of your cycle.
   

3. Finally, everyone in our society today is being affected by the last reason, not just women. It is the pollution of our environment with what are known as "xenohormones". These are man-made compounds and pollutants. Many come from the petrochemical industry, and some come from the medical industry.

   They are found in a long and ever expanding list of products that we are all exposed to. Many people use them on a daily basis. Their effects on our bodies are truly frightening.

   Most of them work like estrogens in our body, but many are more powerful then natural estrogens. Not only do they affect us, researchers are also finding they may affect our children and grandchildren for generations to come.

Please understand that if the first two aren't causing estrogen dominance for you during premenopause, this last one almost undoubtedly is.

Conclusion

For, in fact, these premenopause years should be the years you can accomplish your goals and reach your dreams. You don't have time to waste in the "nightmare" phase of premenopause.

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