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Hormones - Estrogen Dominance Info
The following is definitely not all-inclusive and not every woman will experience even a fraction of the items described. I have extracted this information from a web page that is directed at helping women understand and cope with any problems they might experience that would be related to menopause. Under no circumstances would this information be useful for diagnostic or treatment decisions.
- Hot flushes, night sweats and/or cold flushes, clammy feeling
- Bouts of rapid heart beat
- Irritability
- Mood swings, sudden tears
- Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats)
- Irregular periods; shorter, lighter periods; heavier periods, flooding; phantom periods, shorter cycles, longer cycles
- Loss of libido
- Dry vagina
- Crashing fatigue
- Anxiety, feeling ill at ease
- Feelings of dread, apprehension, doom
- Difficulty concentrating, disorientation, mental confusion
- Disturbing memory lapses
- Incontinence, especially upon sneezing or laughing; Itchiness, "crawling" skin feeling
- Aching, sore joints, muscles and tendons
- Increased tension in muscles
- Breast tenderness
- Headaches: increase or decrease
- Gastrointestinal distress, indigestion, flatulence, gas pain, nausea
- Sudden bouts of bloating
- Depression
- Exacerbation of existing medical condition/s
- Increase in allergies
- Weight gain
- Hair loss or thinning, head, pubic, or whole body; increase in facial hair
- Dizziness, lightheadedness, episodes of loss of balance
- Changes in body odour
- Electric shock sensations under the skin and in the head
- Tingling in the extremities
- Gum problems, increased bleeding
- Burning tongue, burning roof of mouth, bad taste in mouth,
- Change in breath odour
- Osteoporosis
- Changes in fingernails: softer, crack or break easily
- Tinnitus: ringing in ears, bells, 'whooshing,' buzzing etc.
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