Power Doppler boosts endometrial Ca assessment: postmenopausal bleeding. (cancer).(Women’s Health): An article from: Family Practice News

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Title: Power Doppler boosts endometrial Ca assessment: postmenopausal bleeding. (cancer).(Women’s Health)
Author: Miriam E. Tucker
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 15, 2003
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 33 Issue: 24 Page: 41(1)

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Bleeding after menopause may happen to some women. It may be because of the vagina getting dry and lost its elasticity as the estrogen level is decreasing. But it is not the normal symptom to get bleeding after menopause. Bleeding After Menopause is actually quite common and there is usually no reason to get overly worried if this happens. In most cases bleeding will occur because of the hormonal imbalance that is going on in the body, even if you are taking HRTs or natural supplements to help you manage your hormone levels. Another very important factor includes attitude and culture. We now know our thought processes have a major impact not only on our reaction to menopause, but our entire state of health and well being.

You might be getting scared because of what you’ve read so far. However, remember that getting informed is the best first step towards addressing a health-related issue.Just because some of the possible reasons for post menopause bleeding and other after-menopause symptoms are quite serious does not mean you automatically qualify under the “serious” condition.Typically, bleeding caused by endometrial cancer has certain characteristics. Women usually experience a watery, blood streaked flow, with the proportion of blood gradually increasing over time. This may be accompanied by pain whilst passing urine, pain in the pelvis and pain during sexual intercourse.

Post menopause vaginal bleeding can also accompany major weight loss as well as a significant amount of decrease in body fat. If a woman looses a lot of weight, for whatever reason, it is possible for her to endure this type of bleeding. Menopause can be and is an extremely difficult time in almost all women’s lives. The very thought of complicating all that with an unexpected pregnancy makes even that difficult situation even worse. Vaginal infections can also sometimes cause bleeding. Other causes could be fibroids or polyps. Your doctor may need to arrange for a specialist examination and tests to be carried out. This would be done by a gynecologist, who is an expert in women’s healthcare.

If the patient is suffering from excessive bleeding after menopause, then the examination of the pelvis region including vagina and cervix is a must. A Doctor will examine her by passing a small tube device through the cervix. The doctor may also ash her to take a complete scan of uterine. There are quite a few other causes of post menopausal bleeding other than those listed above  When you visit a doctor he or she will carry out tests to discover the cause of the bleeding. It is possible to get rid of this symptom however not everyone experiences it. Due to the regular hormone changes, it isn’t unusual to have bleeding from time to time. Any menopause pain is generally associated with break through bleeding. When considering the real fact, you never have to undergo any special treatment to get relief from the post menopause symptoms. Healthy dieting and good procedural lifestyle will make you to stay out from post menopause.

Menopause Clinically speaking, menopause is tied to a specific date. Assuming the woman still has a uterus, menopause is defined as the day after her final episode of menstrual flow finishes. This date is fixed retrospectively, once 12 months have gone by with no menstrual flow at all. At this point a woman is considered to be a year into postmenopause, is considered to be infertile, and no longer needs to take into consideration the possibility of pregnancy. In common parlance, however, the word “menopause” usually refers not to one day, but to the whole of the menopause transition years. This span of time is also commonly called the change of life, the change, or the climacteric and more recently is known as “perimenopause”, (literally meaning “around menopause”). The word menopause is also often used in popular parlance to mean all the years of postmenopause. Perimenopause Perimenopause is the term used to describe the menopause transition years. In women who have a uterus, perimenopause describes the years before and after the final period (although it is only possible to determine in retrospect which episode of flow was indeed the final period). As a medical convenience, perimenopause is technically defined as the time from which menses start to become irregular and FSH levels have increased, through until 12 months after the last menstrual bleed. However the hormonal changes are gradual, both in onset and in termination, therefore the various possible perimenopause …