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Summary: Menopause can begin at any age between late 30's and late 50's, but a follicular-stimulating hormone test can confirm its commencement. Calculate when menopause will start with health information from a physician's assistant in this free video on medical conditions.
Al Hedgepeth is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his degree as a P.A. in 1980. He currently works as a gynecological P.A. for Wake County....read more
"So the question is: How do you know when menopause is occurring in a female? The answer is you don't really know without doing some lab tests, but clinically, we will study a follicular-stimulating hormone level if a woman has had no period for one year and is of the appropriate age, meaning late thirties to fifties, to be menopausal. And if her follicular-stimulating hormone level is above H50 and she hasn't had a period in one year, we can declare that she's menopausal and does not need birth control methods. If the woman is asking when she might become menopausal, the best reference is to ask her relatives -- her aunts, her mother, her grandmother -- when they stopped having periods and they can assume that within plus or minus five years, that that would be the age in which they might become menopausal as well."
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