At some point in every woman's life, her hormone production drops below the level required to continue her periods.
Some women welcome the end to monthly bleeding, bloating, and inconvenience.
But others find that menopause affects their sex life, triggers mood swings, causes debilitating hot flashes, or even takes them down the road to bone and heart problems. But the good news is that there are ways to manage symptoms and live more comfortably with menopause. There are different kinds of menopause. The anti-estrogen medication tamoxifen, an increasingly common part of treatment for breast cancer, causes hot flashes in some women. You can do many things to help ease your way through menopause.