When it comes to symptoms, male menopause has quite a lot of resembles with female menopause. Doctors have noticed in the studies done by them that the change of hormones has a lot of similar side effects both in women as in men. It is still uncertain if from the medical point of view of science men can be said that are going through menopause. Still it has been proven that a good response has been achieved in the cases where men were given male hormones therapy, meaning testosterone. Signs like symptom relief could be seen and a general better booth physical and psychical state of the patient.

Menopause in men is still a very debated subject. Unlike women they don't have a certain time or period when symptoms are at their highest and very visible. This is called androgen menopause because of the simple fact that the male hormone ( testosterone) decreases in quantity. The effect of testosterone decrease in men can have some similar side effects as in women; the person may feel weak and experience fatigue and in some cases even depressions and sexual problems. Still there some opinions that think that these symptoms don't have a link with the actual decrease of levels of testosterone in the male body and blood.

There is a well defined boundary between the way that women go through menopause and the way that men are believed to experience it. In women, compared to men, the process is actually fast. The women loses almost all of its capability of production of estrogen in few years time. In men the production gradually decreases the fact being that a man can produce male hormones and sperms until well into his 80 s. Complications can sometime occur though as a result of suffering from a disease of something similar. Subtle changes may happen in their 40 ? but because of certain aggravations things can go wrong and problem do occur above 50 until the man reaches the age of 70.

Diagnosing the menopause in women can sometimes pose a problem, symptoms either being difficult to interpret or to detect. In the cases of men this can be even more trickier. A thorough medical and physical exam will have to be performed in order to detect all the symptoms and to properly interpret them. Other medical problems with also have to be ruled out if the diagnosis is to be done correctly. Blood tests will also be made in order to detect levels of hormone, especially the levels of testosterone, the male hormone.