Symptoms of perimenopause are possible to start up to ten or fifteen years previous to menses absolutely stops. Perimenopause symptoms may include: adjustments in sexual desire, struggle in concentrating, mood variations, night sweats, hot flashes, sleep instability, joint and muscle aches, headaches, vaginal dryness, frequent urination, extreme sweating, decreased libido (sexdrive) similar symptoms as experienced with PMS (premenstrual syndrome). They may possibly also resemble other medical problems or conditions such as nausea, low energy, urine leakage when coughing or sneezing, vomiting, stomach pain, urinary urgency (a feeling of need to urinate more often). Some women have a few moderate symptoms only; others have difficult symptoms that disrupt their daily life and sleep. Hormones will even out over time at lower levels and most symptoms will improve or go away.

Not only do healthful lifestyle choices help encourage good heath they can help alleviate perimenopausal symptoms. Your life-style choices like a beneficial diet and exercise will be even more significant now that you are entering menopause. As your estrogen levels decline you begin to lose bone more rapidly than you can restore it, so danger of osteoporosis increases. Also lower estrogen levels may result in harmful changes in your blood cholesterol such as an increase in LDL or bad cholesterol that can add to increased threat of heart disease. Simultaneously HDL or good cholesterol amounts can lower as you get older.

There are quite a few emotional symptoms, or symptoms that may affect your emotions during perimenopause such as: anger, stress, extreme fatigue, mood swings, irritability, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, anxiety, and depression. It is potential that this period of time could be one f the most emotionally and physicaly miserable times in your life. Many women have expressed that the emotional stresses along with the physiological and cognitive symptoms are even worse than the hot flashes themselves. All of these stresses combined with physical conditions not to mention any other stresses that may be present in your life may because so distressing, leaving you in a vulnerable position so much so that you are disposed to try anything including a number of risky options.

If you are suffering from extreme discomfort from hot flashes and night sweats you might deliberate the risk linked with using prescription medications such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or SSRI medications, testosterone, hormones, progestin, dhea supplements, creams, progesterone, bioidential hormones. Instead you might first look at natural or plant based treatments. Existing plant based remedies which claims exist to improve menopause symptoms may include: ginkgo biloba, evening primrose oil, valerian root, panax ginseng, Siberian ginseng, dong quai, yams, wheat, licorice, lavender, lemon balm, oat straw, green tea, theanine, kava, black cohosh, soy, St. Johns wort, sage leaves, red clover, hops, passionflower, omega-3 fatty acits, chamomile, and last but not least flaxseed.

Is the only natural remedy that I know of that has scientific data supporting statements of considerable improvements in perimenopausal symptoms. The Mayo Clinic did a study (www(dot)mayoclinic.org/news2007-rst/4208.html) where women took 40 grams of crushed flaxseed for six weeks, about 30% dropped out mostly for reasons of constipation or diarrhea (from all the fiber) but the women who finished the study reported about 57% improvement in hot flashes and other menopause symptoms. FemFlax is the only plant based menopause product on the marketplace that uses flaxseed; actually they use a concentrated powder encapsulated flax hull lignans which are taken from the surface shell of the flaxseed (the component that has the highest dose of lignans). Because FemFlax is concentrated (less fiber) and a much smaller dose than used in the Mayo Clinic trial, constipation or colon problems from taking too much fiber is unlikely. I would recommend taking with a tall glass of water anyway. Because FemFlax is concentrated (more lignans) women are reporting up to 100% relief from hot flashes.