Sunday, March 2, 2008

Menopausal Syndrome and neurasthenia

Women 45 to 55 years old (menopause), Men 55 to 65 years of age, this age period known as "Menopause" is the transition from middle age to old age period. During this period, the body's metabolism and endocrine function, especially to the aging gonadal function gradually transition, and subjected to an unstable phase, this will easily in the physical or mental factors under the impact of imbalance. Menopausal Syndrome is the result of this imbalance, as their main clinical manifestations of endocrine and autonomic system disorder symptoms. Patients often have headaches, dizziness, insomnia, trembling hands, sound and light to stimulate sensitive, emotional agitate instability,and fatigue fatigue, and other symptoms of neurasthenia.
In addition, there are patients with obvious autonomic, endocrine dysfunction symptoms, such as palpitations, blood pressure fluctuations, chest tightness, paroxysmal facial redness, body heat shock, sweat, limbs, gastrointestinal dysfunction performance for anorexia, stomach discomfort and constipation, etc., the majority of patients have menstrual disorders and sexual dysfunction, but who occasionally sexual hyperthyroidism. Some unhappy with the spirit in stimulating factors, can be a hysteria - like attack, the patients body to straighten limbs tic, cried loudly after his bitter feelings, and so on.
The above-mentioned symptoms of the disease sustainable longer period of time, then gradually recovered. But there are also some patients can be further developed into more serious depression or menopause menopause paranoid state.
As menopause syndrome frequently have similar symptoms of neurasthenia, it is often easy to confuse with neurasthenia. However, the incidence of this syndrome in menopause, and with obvious autonomic and endocrine dysfunction, in particular sexual function changes. This can be distinguished from neurasthenia.

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