Menopause
Menopause (also known as the 'Change of life') is a stage of the reproductive lifecycle that every woman goes through at some point in her life, usually in the fifth or sixth decade, where the ovaries stop producing estrogen. This causes the reproductive system to gradually shut down and alters hormone levels drastically. As the body adapts to the changing levels of natural hormones, symptoms such as hot flashes[?], mood-swings[?], increased depression and anxiety, and increasingly scanty and erratic menstrual periods are common.Menopause takes place gradually over a number of years.
Post-menopausal women are at increased risk of osteoporosis, mostly among European women.
The average onset of menopause is 50.5 years, but some women enter menopause at a younger age, especially if they have suffered from cancer or another serious illness and undergone chemotherapy. Chemotherapy frequently induces premature menopause.
Some women see menopause as being a normal stage of their life-cycle and one which will eventually pass by itself without medical intervention. Some doctors would disagree with that view, and medical 'treatments' for menopausal symptoms have been developed, eg. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
there was no other means of securing the poor child.
Of course the blow to Geraldine was a terrible one.
"We have lost him," she said.
"That does not follow," said Clement. "It is quite plain that he
reach."
"It is just the restless impatience that you warned him against.
have been proved."
"Or to us, out here."
"My dear Cherry, imagine his sudden arrival with such an appendage!
time. It is in the blood."
"Come, come, Cherry. I can't have you in this uncharitable mood."
"Then I mustn't say what I think of that Dolores abetting him."
"No, I like her letter."
It fell hard upon Geraldine to keep all to herself, while entertained
something on a smaller scale, for she knew what was ostentatious; but
like an artisan; since he had married, it had become his pride to
Sir Robert Audley for one night evoked all his splendours. He made
wife and the young doctor, who he patronizingly assured them was
and amuse the young ladies." Theodore had been lately sent out, now
the young ladies at all! Indeed, he was soon so smitten with
looking at her under his eyelids.
The chaplain.html">chaplain had received an offer of preferment in England, and was
that after assisting the next day in the week's duties among the
ventured to accept the proposal of becoming a substitute until the
employed once more in his vocation.
The climate suited him exactly, and the loan of the chaplain's house
hospitality of the castle. The search for Benista's antecedents
Italian foreman, but both assured him that the inquiry might be
many parts of the interior, and many of the men would be at their
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