Hormonal Changes That Rule Your Emotions During Menopause

Before you even go through menopause, your body will begin to lower the level of hormones that are secreted. It’s the ovaries that are responsible for giving a woman these hormones and during menopause, the ovaries slow this production until the level is minimal.

One of the most important hormones affected during menopause is estrogen. This hormone has a variety of duties that it performs for the body. First, it helps a woman in that it allows your body to have the ability to reproduce.

It’s also instrumental during intercourse because it keeps the lubrication levels elevated. A decrease in this hormone can lead to dry and painful intimacy. You can have lower levels of progesterone as well as testosterone along with the lower estrogen.

These lowered levels of hormones in the body bring a host of unpleasant symptoms. Some women experience hot flashes that are worse than other women have, depending on the level of estrogen in the body.

Having night sweats, to the point that you have to get up and change what you wear to bed is also common.

You may experience a decrease in the desire to have sex and you may also experience more tiredness than you normally would. The hormone levels can fluctuate and cause a lot of different symptoms that you might not realize are related to menopause.

When your estrogen levels drop, you can start to have headaches, trouble sleeping and even a racing heart. But more than these physical manifestations, the hormonal changes that you go through during menopause do impact your emotions.

Studies have shown that estrogen and other hormones that are lowered due to menopause can cause depression and anxiety. One of the biggest reasons for the swing in moods that can accompany menopause is that estrogen is actually a hormonal mood stabilizer.

It can keep emotions level - or not - depending on how much or little of it that you have in your body. Estrogen helps boost the production of endorphins, which make you feel happy.

This production begins in the brain and the hormone stimulates the growth of serotonin as well. So when your estrogen levels are lowered, the amount of endorphins is also lowered, which in turn affects your mood.

There is a known link between anxiety levels during menopause and lowered production of progesterone. This is why some doctors will recommend hormonal replacement therapy, since it helps restore the emotional balance.

Lowered levels of testosterone due to menopause can cause cognitive impairment, low energy and depression. Taken individually, low levels of these hormones can be difficult to deal with. But when you have low levels of all three, it can be an emotional struggle.

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