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Doctors still don't know ALL of the symptoms a woman might experience during menopause because there are too many to nail down all of them. No two women experience the same thing as their bodies lose their fertility. Alot of people do not know all of the symptoms of menopause because only a few actually make the news. The fact remains that there are too many symptoms of menopause to count. Many symptoms of the change itself are not immediately recognizable. Others are very obvious. It is very important for a premenopausal woman to be able to recognize common signs of menopause. Helping other women through their "change" will give you a sense of purpose and perhaps make you feel a little better about having made the "change" yourself.

Men often notice a woman's loss of sexual appetite long before a women realizes it's happening. Although, just because she's suddenly not interested in sex does not always mean she's menopausal. If your significant other's lack of interest or drive lasts more than a few weeks it could be menopause. Have some compassion for your partner this change is not easy to handle. This change is not very pleasant for her either. Perhaps one of the more embarrassing menopause symptoms for women is the change in hair growth. For the most part, women say that they lose the most hair from the places where hair usually grows (their heads, their arms and legs, their pubic areas). At the same time that this hair loss is occurring, they start to experience hair growth in areas that are unusual like the face and chest. Every woman has different types of hair growth. If you don't usually grow hair on your face or chest and you start to notice some appearing (while simultaneously losing hair from places where it should grow), call your doctor. You could be going through menopause.

The most famous symptom of menopause is, arguably, irritability. Do you remember what it was like when you first started to hit puberty--how you suddenly felt cranky and irritated and annoyed by everything all the time? This is pretty much the same thing that a woman who is starting to go through menopause feels. It isn't always PMS when a woman who is usually pretty happy suddenly starts getting angry and annoyed, especially if she is of a certain age. It could be that she has started to go through menopause.

Lots of people think puberty and menopause are basically the same thing. The body is experiencing a huge amount of changes that are totally out of the woman's control. Lots of woman say, however, that menopause is more difficult than puberty because the symptoms are more severe and varied.

Learning to identify menopause symptoms will help you better understand what is going on in your own body as you go through your change of life. If you aren't a woman you should still learn about menopause symptoms so that you can better support the women in your life who have to deal with the symptoms first hand.