Learn
The words and the guidance
Every symptom, hormone and treatment in plain words, with what the guidance says about each.
Symptoms
- Anxiety
- Bladder and urinary symptoms
- Bleeding after menopause
- Bloating
- Body odour changes
- Brain fog
- Breast tenderness
- Breathing difficulties
- Burning mouth
- Cold flushes
- Crying easily
- Depression
- Dizziness
- Dry and itchy skin
- Dry eyes
- Electric shock sensations
- Fatigue
- Feeling unloved
- Hair thinning
- Headaches and migraines
- Heart palpitations
- Heavy periods
- Hot flushes
- Irregular periods
- Irritability and anger
- Joint and muscle pain
- Low libido
- Low mood
- Menstrual migraine
- Mood changes
- Muscle tension
- New facial hair
- Night sweats
- Pain during sex
- Skin changes
- Sleep disruption
- Tingling or numbness
- Tinnitus
- Vaginal dryness
- Vertigo
- Weight gain
Understanding Menopause
- Age at menopause
- Andropause (the 'male menopause')
- Cortisol
- DHEA
- Early menopause
- Estrogen
- FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone)
- How menopause is diagnosed
- Hysterectomy and menopause
- Is there a test for menopause?
- Menopause
- Menopause after chemotherapy
- Perimenopause
- Postmenopause
- Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI)
- Premenopause
- Progesterone
- STRAW+10: the stages of reproductive ageing
- Surgical menopause
- Testosterone in women
Treatment and Medication
Your Health
Lifestyle and Wellbeing
Getting Help
- Finding menopause care in Pakistan, the Gulf, the UK, the US and Europe
- Health screening in midlife
- Menopause and work
- Menopause care on the NHS
- Online menopause communities
- Partner and family support
- Preparing for your appointment
- Second opinion and changing treatment
- Seeing a menopause specialist
- Symptom tracking
- Talking to your GP or family doctor
- Trigger tracking
- Your symptom score explained