The most common, and believed to be the most healthy way, age for the starting of the menopause is believed to be 51 years old. With all this in mind cases of women having the menopause start as early as 40 or as late as after 55 have been known. Having the menopause before the age of 40 is believed to be rather un normal and unhealthy, and that is why doctor care is needed.

We all know that the female organs that produce the estrogen and progesterone hormone, specific for women, are the ovaries. Reaching a certain age in life determines this ovaries to make less and less of this hormones, process that affects all the body of the woman. This way period patterns become very irregular. An astonishing fact is that till this transaction time is ready women can still become pregnant, even if the periods are very irregular.

It is not good to interfere with the natural process of aging and menopause. For most of the women, reaching the menopause is a natural occurring process that happens with out problems or complications. Still if the ovaries are removed or they are tempered with, menopause can be reached very suddenly but complications will later on appear.

Symptoms of menopause or perimenopause ( the time exactly before the actual start of the menopause) can vary a lot from woman to woman. Some of them having troubled complications wile others pass through this with even knowing it. Studies have shown that lifestyle along with the diet and activity that women have, are factors that really influence if complications appear, and what their severity may be.

A series of symptoms show a woman when they are starting to menopause. Symptoms like:

Hot flashes: are the feelings of the woman when , because irregular flow through the veins, she will experience being hot and flushed. This happens mostly in the neck and head area of the body.

Irregular periods: irregular periods can start way before the final one that is the sign that the woman has reached menopause. Doctors should be spoken to if any bleeding happens afterwards.

Vaginal drying: as levels of estrogen decrease serious changes happen in the vagina, this way leading some times to some strange complications.

Sleep disorders: hot flashes most often disturbs ones sleep at night.

Depression: reaching a certain point in your life can be very hard for some women, many don't take it easily.

Osteoporosis: the thinning of the bones actually happen because of the level drop of estrogen in the body of the woman.

Diagnosing menopause is done relatively easy , lab tests not being necessary.