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For most women, menopause results in mood swings, hot flashes and maybe some sleepless nights due to night sweats. For women that may be experiencing extreme symptoms such as anxiety and depression, it is recommended that you seek immediate medical attention, but for the majority of women, menopause symptoms are an annoyance but don’t necessarily rise to the level of needing medical treatment. An effective drug free way of controlling hot flashes is with paced breathing. Paced breathing is also very relaxing and can help reduce anxiety, stress and help you get to sleep faster so it’s worth a try. Simply sit in a quiet relaxed area and breath in deeply for 5 seconds and then exhale for 5 seconds. Your diaphragm should expand and contract with each deep breath. This should be done once or twice a day for 15 minutes at a time.

There are some things that can cause women to have an early menopause. One example is smokers who typically enter menopause one to two years earlier than nonsmokers. There is also some evidence to suggest that not having delivered a baby can bring on early menopause.

Being treated with chemotherapy or pelvic radiation for cancer as a child can increase the likelihood of early menopause. Women with medical complications who undergo a hysterectomy may experience an earlier menopause. Usually leaving the ovaries so that eggs are still produced but removing the uterus doesn’t cause menopause but it does stop menstrual bleeding.

Genetics is the biggest indicator of when a woman will enter menopause. If you want to know when you’re most likely to enter menopause ask your mother about her experiences and odds are pretty good that you will enter menopause about the same time and have similar symptoms.

Why do these things lead to an early menopause? It’s not fully understood at this time.