Menopause: Signs and Symptoms for Women

So a woman gets into menopause or perimenopause, her eggs are no longer producing as much of this progesterone, different hormones to make her feel like a woman. And once she goes into menopause, ovaries have basically failed. Menopause is defined as either having your ovaries removed or the ovaries stop producing eggs and you don't have a period for a year is the classic definition. So when that happens, these testosterone level precipitously drops, estrogen precipitously drops, and progesterone precipitously drops. And it's more abrupt. And when we get more we call vasomotor symptoms, which commonly would be hot flashes, night sweats, mental fogginess, decreased energy, many irritability and hair loss on the scalp and facial hair growth. Bones get thinner, weight starts piling on, skin gets a little bit weaker.