The inflammation reaction is necessary and protective for the body in the short-term. Acute inflammation can leave you with the following cluster of symptoms: pain, redness, immobility, swelling and heat.
Therefore, the only way to know if you have gone through menopause is if you have not had your period for one year. (And it's not menopause if your periods stop for some other reason, like being sick.) The average age of menopause is 51, but for some women it happens as early as 40 or as late as 55.After you go through menopause, you are considered in the post-menopausal stage of your life.eriods can stop and then start again, so you are in perimenopause until a year has passed since you've had a period. During perimenopause a woman will have changes in her levels of estrogen (ES-truh-jin) and progesterone (proh-JES-tuh-RONE), two female hormones made in the ovaries.
We call this stage perimenopause â the time leading up to menopause. That is one of the reasons we use the FSH level to determine the possibility of perimenopausal changes. Commonly between the ages of 50 and 55, your periods will stop. Once you havenât had a period for 12 consecutive months, you are in menopause. Symptoms may continue â or even arise for the first time â as your body adjusts to your new hormone levels.