Women's Health Exam III – Menopause
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1. Menopause is described as a ______________
2. This happens when a woman reaches what ages?
3. What is menopause marked by?
4. Menopause is a time of menstrual and endocrine changes beginning
___________ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. a natural decline in reproductive
hormones
2. 40s - 50s
3. marked by the end of menses.
4. (below)
- variation in cycle length
- and ending with the final menstrual period
- (FMP is when 12 months of amenorrhea have passed after last menstrual
period)
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,1. what kind of diagnosis is menopause?
2. how do you know if someone has gone through menopause?
3. what is the average age of menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. a
retrospective diagnosis
2. 12 months without any uterine bleeding
3. 40 - 58 years old, average age 51 years
What is periomenopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- *symptomatic years of
menopausal transition*
- time of endocrine and menstrual changes that start occurring for women
in the years before the final menstrual period
- encompassing the time from early menopausal transition to 12 months
after final menstrual period,
1. During perimenopause, what happens to estrogen levels?
2. How long does perimenopause last usually? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. During
this time, estrogen levels fluctuate, which can cause heavy, irregular
periods and cramping.
2. 5 years
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, 1. what happens to the number of follicles? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Number of
follicles are rapidly diminishing
- with less follicles, the ovary is producing less of all the sex steroids (E, P,
A)
- and so they are not there to give negative feedback to the HPO axis.
1. The ovaries before more resistant to FSH stimulation ___________ -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. high peaking of FSH
- With less follicles, the ovary is producing less off all the sex steroids
(E,P,A)
- and so they are not there to give negative feedback to the HPO axis
- In response the pituitary puts out more and FSH and LH
1. Can we use hormone levels to diagnose menopause?
2. what are the hours to hour changes like? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Although
the hormones LH and FSH (especially FSH) are trending upward in
menopause
2. the actual levels hour to hour can be very erratic and that is why
hormone testing for menopause is considered to be very unreliable.
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Answers
| A+ Score Assured
1. Menopause is described as a ______________
2. This happens when a woman reaches what ages?
3. What is menopause marked by?
4. Menopause is a time of menstrual and endocrine changes beginning
___________ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. a natural decline in reproductive
hormones
2. 40s - 50s
3. marked by the end of menses.
4. (below)
- variation in cycle length
- and ending with the final menstrual period
- (FMP is when 12 months of amenorrhea have passed after last menstrual
period)
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,1. what kind of diagnosis is menopause?
2. how do you know if someone has gone through menopause?
3. what is the average age of menopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. a
retrospective diagnosis
2. 12 months without any uterine bleeding
3. 40 - 58 years old, average age 51 years
What is periomenopause? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- *symptomatic years of
menopausal transition*
- time of endocrine and menstrual changes that start occurring for women
in the years before the final menstrual period
- encompassing the time from early menopausal transition to 12 months
after final menstrual period,
1. During perimenopause, what happens to estrogen levels?
2. How long does perimenopause last usually? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. During
this time, estrogen levels fluctuate, which can cause heavy, irregular
periods and cramping.
2. 5 years
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, 1. what happens to the number of follicles? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔- Number of
follicles are rapidly diminishing
- with less follicles, the ovary is producing less of all the sex steroids (E, P,
A)
- and so they are not there to give negative feedback to the HPO axis.
1. The ovaries before more resistant to FSH stimulation ___________ -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. high peaking of FSH
- With less follicles, the ovary is producing less off all the sex steroids
(E,P,A)
- and so they are not there to give negative feedback to the HPO axis
- In response the pituitary puts out more and FSH and LH
1. Can we use hormone levels to diagnose menopause?
2. what are the hours to hour changes like? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1. Although
the hormones LH and FSH (especially FSH) are trending upward in
menopause
2. the actual levels hour to hour can be very erratic and that is why
hormone testing for menopause is considered to be very unreliable.
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