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Menopause is when you have your final period. It can happen at the expected age or later, or you may experience premature or early menopause.

Perimenopause is the stage before menopause, when you might start experiencing symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats and mood swings.

Everyone’s experience of menopause is different, but it’s good to know there’s help available if you need it.

Learn more about menopause, including common symptoms and treatments such as menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), healthy living and natural therapies.

What is menopause?

Menopause is your final peri­od. Per­i­menopause is the time lead­ing up to menopause.

Symptoms of menopause

Menopause can cause a range of phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al changes.
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What causes menopause?

Menopause hap­pens when your repro­duc­tive hor­mones change and there are no eggs left in your ovaries.

Premature and early menopause

What caus­es pre­ma­ture and ear­ly menopause, what are the symp­toms and how you can man­age them.
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Menopause management options

There are many ways to man­age and treat menopausal symp­toms, depend­ing on your own unique experience.
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Managing your symptoms

Learn more about com­mon symp­toms of menopause and dif­fer­ent treat­ment options.

Menopause and natural therapies

Nat­ur­al ther­a­pies, includ­ing herbal med­i­cine and com­ple­men­tary therapies.
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Looking after yourself during menopause

Healthy lifestyle choic­es will help improve phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al symp­toms at every stage of menopause.
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Information for partners

Learn about menopause and relat­ed symp­toms so you can sup­port them through this time.

Medically induced menopause

Learn about what you can do to ease symp­toms and reduce health risks.

Menopause and work

Tips for man­ag­ing menopause at work.
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Menopause resources in English

Down­load fact sheets, Easy Reads and posters on menopause.

Translated menopause resources

Menopause resources in lan­guages oth­er than English.

Menopause Ask the Experts video

We put the top ques­tions from women around Aus­tralia to a pan­el of lead­ing menopause clin­i­cians and researchers.

This con­tent has been reviewed by a group of med­ical sub­ject mat­ter experts, in accor­dance with Jean Hailes pol­i­cy.