Menopause and Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis or thinning of the bone can also affect the woman in menopause but she may not notice it. This condition occurs because calcium is lost from the bones when the supply of estrogen is reduced. There are other factors that accelerate bone loss such as smoking and inactivity.
But it is important to note that the rate of bone loss is greater in white women, so our black women have a very low probability of things like fractures of the hips or wrists, because of the thinning of the bones, when they fall.
Although these are all the possible results of menopause and osteoporosis, different women react to menopausal symptoms differently. Some will go through severe changes and others get bad bouts of depression requiring psychoanalysis, but not all women react like that. Every woman will experience menopause, it is a very important milestone in a women’s life; it is just that some react to it in a very personal manner and some sail through as if nothing has happened.
