Women - If you feel menopausal what symptoms do you have?

What methods, pills, etc have you discovered that help to ease the symptons

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There are many symptoms and you won't have all.even most.of them (Thank God ;-) ), but here is the most comprehensive list I have:

1. Hot flashes, flushes, night sweats and/or cold flashes, clammy feeling
2. Irregular heart beat
3. Irritability
4. Mood swings, sudden tears
5. Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats)
6. Irregular periods; shorter, lighter periods; heavier periods, flooding; phantom periods, shorter cycles, longer cycles
7. Loss of libido
8. Dry vagina
9. Crashing fatigue
10. Anxiety, feeling ill at ease
11. Feelings of dread, apprehension, doom
12. Difficulty concentrating, disorientation, mental confusion
13. Disturbing memory lapses
14. Incontinence, especially upon sneezing, laughing; urge incontinence
15. Itchy, crawly skin
16. Aching, sore joints, muscles and tendons
17. Increased tension in muscles
18. Breast tenderness
19. Headache change: increase or decrease
20. Gastrointestinal distress, indigestion, flatulence, gas pain, nausea
21. Sudden bouts of bloat
22. Depression
23. Exacerbation of existing conditions
24. Increase in allergies
25. Weight gain
26. Hair loss or thinning, head, pubic, or whole body; increase in facial hair
27. Dizziness, light-headedness, episodes of loss of balance
28. Changes in body odor
29. Electric shock sensation under the skin and in the head
30. Tingling in the extremities
31. Gum problems, increased bleeding
32. Burning tongue, burning roof of mouth, bad taste in mouth, change in breath odor
33. Osteoporosis (after several years)
34. Changes in fingernails: softer, crack or break easier
35. Tinnitus: ringing in ears, bells, 'whooshing,' buzzing etc.

As to methods to ease the symptoms, I highly recommend bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. These are customized hormones (estrogen, estradial, estrone, progesterone, testosterone) made to your unique needs. These are NOT the hormones (Premarin/Prempro) that were getting all the negative publicity a few years ago.

This will give you the symptoms:
http://www.minniepauz.com/Seven-Dwarfs-of-Menopause.html
my periods are lighter, shorter sometimes, others it stops & starts again after a day or two..bad mood swings, cold chills..and if you find out how to combat this, let me know! I'm keeping this one on my watch list! thanks for the Q!

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i have been going through menopause u have hot flashes night sweats, mood swings u cry alot my eyes dried out i had to go to the OBGYN and get medicine i was on prepro but my doctor took me off it because i was having swelling in my feet and hands but they have high doses or low doses hope u have better luck then im having gp see ypur dpctpr and hopefully u wont have to much to worry about oh yeah and another symptom i have is cant sleep. good luck to u
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