in terms of development, what happens to women in their early forties?
Women in their late thirties and early forties often notice a worsening of PMS symptoms. On a physical level, this may include more cramping, bloating and breast tenderness. [ On a psychological level, this involves increased moodiness and feelings of depression. With the onset of perimenopause, each passing year brings a more upleasant premenstrual period.
New research shows that menopause is not an event just for women in their late forties and early fifties. Perimenopause, the period of time before menopause, may begin ten or more years before menopause. Perimenopause engages slowly
and subtly, as the female hormones finish the era of regular, predictable, cyclical secretions and begin ever so slightly to shift. The first years of perimenopause may go unnoticed. It is frequently not until there are noticeable changes in the timing or duration of menses that women are alerted to these changes.
These changes in menses are what eventually alert women to notice they are having more emotional difficulties around the time of their monthly period. Women that have never before suffered from PMS, find that now they do. In some cases, the moodiness of PMS may reach proportions significant enough to be diagnosable as depression. As perimenopause progresses, women are subjected to 'higher highs' when estrogen and progesterone are at their optimal level and 'lower lows' when at their least optimal level. This is a normal part of the perimenopause transition, albeit a difficult one. ]
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