Fatigue

Many women begin to have prolonged feelings of exhaustion and lack of energy in their late 40s and early 50s. This common menopausal symptom is called fatigue.

Fatigue puts pressure on your work life, daily life and can even disrupt your relationships with others. This tired-all-the-time feeling drains you and manifests itself as you cope with the demands of your changing body. Typically, fatigue occurs because of insomnia, which is caused by a decrease in estrogen in a womans body.

Fatigue can also be influenced by a lack of a womans progesterone. Progesterone is the hormone that keeps women energized and accounts for a womans sexual drive. When menopause hits, the levels of this hormone lower dramatically. This hormonal imbalance often causes women to lose their liveliness, sex drive and leaves them feeling exhausted or sick.

In addition to loss of energy, menopausal fatigue manifests itself in many other ways such as blurry vision and hearing difficulties. In addition to menopause, chronic fatigue problems are often diagnosed in connection with hypothyroidism.

The following tips might help to reduce fatigue during menopause:

• Take care to get adequate sleep every night.
• Perform exercise regularly to reduce stress (yoga is ideal for releasing stress).
• Avoid overworking yourself, and try to maintain your personal schedule.
• If your stress is environmental, take vacations, switch jobs or approach your company or family to help resolve the root cause.
• Limit your intake of alcohol, drugs and nicotine.
• Eat a healthy and well-balanced diet
• Drink adequate water during the day (8 to 10 glasses).
• Certain herbs like sarsaparilla and wild yam root are considered helpful for fatigue.
• If herbal therapy doesnt work, try hormone replacement and vitamins C, D, E and K.