What can cause post-menopausal bleeding?
A women'a life is a long cycle between birth, puberty, menarche, pregnancy and infertility to the end of the circle with menopause. Menopause is essentially the end of menstruation.
Perimenopause is the transition years when a woman's period stops. Symptoms of perimenopause include mood swings, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, urinary complications and a loss of sex drive. Menopause is a natural part of a woman's lifetime and 70% of women live with the symptoms. A lifestyle change including diet, exercise and medications can help with these symptoms, though.
The irregularity of a woman's menstrual periods during menopause can be caused by a number of things:
a thinning of the uterine lining - infection, scarring from a dilation and curettage (D&C), low estrogen levels, a poor uterine blood supply or endometrial antibodies can all make an impact. There is also a condition known as adenomyosis (where normal endometrial tissue grows within the muscular walls of a uterus) which can also predispose a woman to a thin uterine lining.
taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) - when your body is given synthetic hormones (which act like natural hormones once inside the body) based on the idea that this kind of treatment may prevent discomfort caused by hormones changing.
Perimenopause is the transition years when a woman's period stops. Symptoms of perimenopause include mood swings, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, urinary complications and a loss of sex drive. Menopause is a natural part of a woman's lifetime and 70% of women live with the symptoms. A lifestyle change including diet, exercise and medications can help with these symptoms, though.
The irregularity of a woman's menstrual periods during menopause can be caused by a number of things:
a thinning of the uterine lining - infection, scarring from a dilation and curettage (D&C), low estrogen levels, a poor uterine blood supply or endometrial antibodies can all make an impact. There is also a condition known as adenomyosis (where normal endometrial tissue grows within the muscular walls of a uterus) which can also predispose a woman to a thin uterine lining.
taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) - when your body is given synthetic hormones (which act like natural hormones once inside the body) based on the idea that this kind of treatment may prevent discomfort caused by hormones changing.
having noncancerous polyps - a tissue enlargements of the uterus can be harmless or noncancerous. Read Medicine Net's explanation of benign uterine growths.
endometrial hyperplasia - this is the medical term for unusual or excessive cell growth within the glandular lining of the uterus (the endometrium). This is normally easily treated by your OB/GYN.
endometrial cancer - the most common type of uterine cancer is possibly caused by increased levels of estrogen. Most endometrial cancer cases occur between the ages of 60 and 70 (but a few may occur as early as age 40). Diabetes, estrogen replacement therapy (without the use of progesterone), endometrial polyps, infertility, tamoxifen, never being pregnant, obesity, early menstruation, or late menopause may increase your risk of endometrial cancer. Symptoms include: abnormal uterine bleeding, abnormal menstrual periods, extremely long, heavy or frequent episodes of vaginal bleeding after age 40, lower abdominal pain or pelvic cramping or thin white or clear vaginal discharge after menopause.
If you experience any of these symptoms, please do not hesitate to address your physician with them.
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