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Symptom Checker

Anywhere from 30s through to 60s, the symptoms below may have a negative impact on your health, relationships, and happiness. Other symptoms of health conditions such as auto-immune diseases, endometriosis, and PCOS can start much earlier, and have an impact on your ability to train among other things. 

 

Perimenopause (pre-menopause) - can start as early as your thirties and can last up to 10 years before your body makes the natural transition to menopause. 

 

Menopause usually begins between 45-55, lasting around 7-14 years. It starts after you've gone for 12 months without a menstrual period. 

 

Each woman has a unique experience, and there's a wide range of physical and emotional symptoms which may include: 

  • Irregular periods - for example, painful and/or severe, heavy, long periods, followed by missed periods for 2 or 3 months or more, and then it's really light, could last for weeks. 

  • Breast tenderness. 

  • More pronounced pre-menstrual tension. 

  • Hot flashes or night sweats. You suddenly get so hot you kick all your bedding off, or strip off to a singlet and put the fan on even on a cool day. Hot flashes can strike at very inconvenient times! 

  • Sleep disturbance - harder to fall asleep, or stay asleep, impacted sleep quality and quantity. 

  • Itchy, crawly, dry skin. 

  • Exhaustion, mental fatigue, brain fog. 

  • Trouble concentrating. 

  • Migraines. 

  • Mood changes such as feeling teary or irritable. Anxiety may occur or worsen. 

  • Weight gain despite no change in diet or exercise. 

  • Dry vagina and/or painful sex.

  • Vulvovaginal atrophy - vaginal lining, vulval skin, bladder, urethra, pelvic floor muscles may become thin contributing to pain or loss of libido. 

  • Aches and pains. 

  • Bloating and pelvic pain. 

  • Pelvic floor dysfunction including leaking urine when coughing, sneezing, laughing or running, failing to reach the toilet in time, passing wind from anus or vagina when beding over or lifting, reduced sensation in the vagina, tampons that dislodge, fall out, or really hurt, a distrinct bulge at the vaginal opening, trouble evacuating a bowel movement, incomplete bowel movement, or urine or stool that leaks. 

  • Prolapse problems. If pelvic organs are weakened, the pelvic organs may bulge (prolapse) from their normal postion into the vagina, or exterior. May feel like dragging or heaviness, a bulge, difficulties with continence, or discomfort and lack of sensation during sex. 

 

Other symptoms that impact women's health and may be improved through coaching include: 

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  • Thyroid symptoms could easily be mistaken for menopausal symptoms. While there are different types that need medical testing to diagnose, symptoms include anxiety, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, IBT (irritable bowel syndrome), goiter (visibly enlarged thyroid gland), thyroid nodules, hair loss, thinning eyebrows, hand tremors, heat intolerance, high cholesterol, nerve damage causing tingling, numbness, pain in the legs, arms, or other affected areas, ridges on nails, low basal body temperature (body temperature at rest). 

  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

  • Autoimmune Diseases.

  • Endometriosis.

  • Osteopenia and Osteoporosis.

  • Allergies, intolerances, and digestive issues. 

  • Disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image. 

 

We also have to navigate feeling invisible as we age. It's even got a name - The Invisible Woman Syndrome. A large survey found that 70% of women believe they will become invisible as they get older, feeling 'unseen, overlooked, and patronised'. We still have to deal with gender inequality, ageism, harder to get a job, and harder to even find appropriate clothes especially if you're gaining weight around the middle. 

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