Is a “hormonal storm” about to hit? Check these 7 warning signs of menopause before your life spirals out of control.
Have you ever suddenly felt like a different person—becoming easily irritated without reason, experiencing hot flashes as if standing under the sun despite the air conditioning, or suddenly gaining weight rapidly despite eating the same amount?
Don’t blame the weather or think you’re seriously ill just yet. These may be your body’s warning signs that a major "hormonal storm" is approaching and that you might be unknowingly entering menopause.
Let’s review the symptoms before your body and mind become more disrupted.
Urgently check these 7 warning signs that you may be entering menopause. If you are aged between 40 and 55 and experience more than two of these symptoms, prepare yourself.
1. Hot flashes and heavy sweating
The classic symptom: sudden hot flashes on your face, neck, and chest, accompanied by sweating as if you ran a marathon while sitting still—especially at night, causing you to wake up startled and unable to fall back asleep.
2. Mood swings like a roller coaster
From being calm to easily irritated, feeling hurt, depressed, or anxious without clear reasons. Everything others say seems wrong, and controlling your emotions becomes difficult, causing those around you to start distancing themselves.
3. Insomnia and restlessness
Wide awake at 2 a.m. or tossing and turning all night, leading to waking unrefreshed, feeling tired all day, and worsening mood swings.
4. Forgetfulness and poor concentration
Walking into the kitchen and forgetting why you came, struggling to find words, reduced focus at work, and feeling mentally foggy and less sharp than before.
5. Metabolic disruption and weight gain
Eating the same or less but gaining weight easily, especially fat accumulating around the waist, changing your body shape and undermining your confidence.
6. Dry skin, hair loss, and loss of firmness
Declining collagen and hormones cause dry, rough skin lacking moisture, itching easily, and hair thinning and falling out alarmingly.
7. Intimacy problems and dryness
Reduced sexual desire or burning sensations due to vaginal dryness (in women), which is a natural effect of declining hormones but can impact your relationship.