Unbalanced Hormone Symptoms

On the average, female hormone levels begin to decline at a rate of about 2% per year after age 30. Symptoms experienced from low or unbalanced hormones can be experienced at any age but typically progress through peri-menopause and menopause.  Through hormone optimization symptoms do begin to subside quickly within the first 7 to 10 days of starting hormone therapy.

Unbalanced, peri-menopause and menopause have a wide variety of symptoms, some more common than others.  The following is a list compiled from women who experienced these symptoms:

• Hot flashes, flushes, night sweats and/or cold flashes, clammy feeling 
• Irregular heart beat
• Irritability
• Mood swings, sudden tears
• Trouble sleeping through the night (with or without night sweats)
• Irregular periods; shorter, lighter periods; heavier periods, flooding; phantom periods, shorter cycles, longer cycles
• Loss of libido
• Dry vagina
• Crashing fatigue
• Anxiety, feeling ill at ease
• Feelings of dread, apprehension, and doom
• Difficulty concentrating, disorientation, mental confusion
• Disturbing memory lapses
• Incontinence, especially upon sneezing, laughing; urge incontinence
• Itchy, crawly skin
• Aching, sore joints, muscles and tendons 
• Lower back pain
• Increased tension in muscles
• Breast tenderness
• Headache change: increase or decrease
• Gastrointestinal distress, indigestion, flatulence, gas pain, nausea
• Bloating
• Depression
• Exacerbation of existing conditions
• Increase in allergies
• Weight gain 
• Hair loss or thinning, head, pubic, or whole body; increase in facial hair
• Dizziness, light-headedness, episodes of loss of balance
• Changes in body odor
• Electric shock sensation under the skin and in the head
• Tingling in the extremities 
• Gum problems, increased bleeding
• Burning tongue, burning roof of mouth, bad taste in mouth, change in breath odor
• Osteoporosis
• Changes in fingernails: softer, crack or break easierTinnitus: ringing in ears, bells, 'whooshing,' buzzing etc.