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| Dr. Enrique Jacome |
Which came first – the hormonal imbalance or the anxiety? Sounds a lot like the chicken and the egg question, doesn’t it? While many different conditions can trigger anxiety, recent studies indicate that stress goes hand in hand with menopause and andropause.
Panic attacks often strike perimenopausal women the hardest as their hormonal changes fluctuate dramatically. But other factors can contribute to the anxiety generally associated with menopause.
Depression, poor concentration, muscle tension, irritability, fatigue, insomnia and sleep disorders are all anxiety-related and symptomatic of menopause. However, many women wonder if their life circumstances or their hormones are to blame.
Sue, a 47-year-old working mom, has a full share of anxiety between her job as an office manager and her duties at home. She often experiences extreme fatigue and finds it difficult to concentrate on her work. Despite her exhaustion, she has trouble falling asleep. She wakes throughout the night, wrought with tension, restlessness, nervous sweats and an inability to go back to sleep.
Sue wonders if it’s her anxiety from the job keeping her up at night or her hormones making her toss and turn. Maybe it’s the stress of college tuition costs for her three kids.
How can women know the difference between everyday anxiety and the menopausal kind? More importantly, what can they do to alleviate anxiety altogether?
Sue initially made some lifestyle changes… reducing her coffee intake, replacing sugars and junk food with healthier meals, taking a yoga class and walking more. She also started doing more relaxing things before bedtime, such as taking a hot scented bath instead of watching the news.
Still, the night sweats continued. That’s when she decided to have her hormone levels tested and try SottoPelle Therapy.
Sue’s lab tests showed that she was pre-menopausal and really low in estrogen and testosterone, an imbalance that leads to stress in the body, thyroid disorder and adrenal fatigue. She started sleeping better after taking bio-identical progesterone before bedtime and found that it alleviated her anxiety and calmed her nerves.
Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy helped Sue get through menopause naturally and safely, without the hot flashes, nervous jitters and tension that formerly kept her up all night and reaching for the caffeine all day.
Anxiety can also result when testosterone levels drop as men enter andropause. Balancing these hormones with pellet therapy effectively relieves the anxiety and irritability that often plagues men at this time.
To determine if your symptoms are due to the hormonal imbalances of menopause and andropause or a deeper emotional cause, and more information about SottoPelle Therapy, lab tests and hormone evaluations, visit http://www.sottopelletherapy.com/faqs/. You can also take SottoPelle hormone self assessment.
Sources
Bromberger JT, Kravitz HM, Chang YF, et al. Major depression during and after the menopausal transition: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Psychol Med. Sep 2011;41(9):1879-88. [Medline].Steiner M, Dunn E, Born L. Hormones and mood: from menarche to menopause and beyond. J Affect Disord. Mar 2003;74(1):67-83. [Medline].
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