Unfortunately, physicians probably know less about perimenopause than that of the postmenopausal stage of life. I have a previous history of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is not an estrogen dependent cancer, therefore, whether or not you choose hormone therapy would depend on your age and symptoms and risk factors. The younger you are when your ovaries were removed, the greater the risks are for heart disease, osteoporosis and other postmenopausal problems. If you were already postmenopausal when your ovaries were removed, then your symptoms would be few and your need for hormone therapy, less.
Night sweats are simply hot flashes that occur at night.
They cause sleep disturbances that may over time leave you chronically fatigued. We reach maximum bone mass at age 25 to 30. That is why it is so important that children, teenagers and young women insure that they have plenty of calcium in their diet and exercise. It is kind of like putting money in the bank because this is what will build our bone bank. With the onset of hormone decline, which begins very slowly in the perimenopausal period, there is a slow decrease, but the loss of estrogen causes a fairly rapid rate of bone loss, up to one to three percent per year.