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{{stub}} '''Early menopause''' or '''premature ovarian failure''' is defined as [[menopause]] symptoms beginning before age 40 by the [[World Health Organization]].<ref name="ICD11">{{Cite web | url=https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/756899519 | title = GA30.6 Premature ovarian failure | last = World Health Organization | first = | author-link = World Health Organization|website=ICD-11 - International Classification of Diseases|access-date=2022-03-01}}</ref> Most women experience the start of menopause between the ages of 45 and 55 years old.<ref name="NHS">{{Cite web | url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/early-menopause/ | title = Early menopause | last = National Health Service | first = | author-link = National Health Service|website=National Health Service|access-date=2022-03-01}}</ref> ==Signs and symptoms== ==Treatment== ==ME/CFS== A few patients with ME/CFS have reported undergoing early menopause, including [[Lynn Gilderdale]], who had [[severe and very severe ME#verysevere|very severe ME/CFS]].{{citation needed | date = 2022}} ==Fibromyalgia == Early menopause and [[hysterectomy]] are linked to increased risk of [[fibromyalgia]], either in the years shortly before the hysterectomy or in the year after.<ref name="Pamuk2009"/> A number of studies have found that women with fibromyalgia were more likely to have had a hysterectomy than the general population, and they were more likely to have poorer health and higher health costs than women with fibromyalgia who had not had a hysterectomy.<ref name="Santoro2012"/> Fibromyalgia patients were more likely to have had a gynaecological surgery compared to other chronic pain patients, with rates of fibromyalgia being higher in patients who had hysterectomy, oophorectomy (ovary removal) and cystectomy (bladder or cyst removal) than only hysterectomy.<ref name="Brooks2015"/> ==Notable studies== *2015, Assessing the prevalence of autoimmune, endocrine, gynecologic, and psychiatric comorbidities in an ethnically diverse cohort of female fibromyalgia patients: does the time from hysterectomy provide a clue?<ref name="Brooks2015">{{Cite journal | title = Assessing the prevalence of autoimmune, endocrine, gynecologic, and psychiatric comorbidities in an ethnically diverse cohort of female fibromyalgia patients: does the time from hysterectomy provide a clue? | date = 2015-08-20| url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548754/|journal=Journal of Pain Research|volume=8 | pages = 561–569 | last = Brooks | first = Larry | last2 = Hadi | first2 = Joseph | last3 = Amber | first3 = Kyle T | last4 = Weiner | first4 = Michelle | last5 = La Riche | first5 = Christopher L | last6 = Ference | first6 = Tamar|doi=10.2147/JPR.S86573|pmc=4548754|pmid=26316807|issn=1178-7090}}</ref> - [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548754/ (Full text)] *2012, Fibromyalgia and hysterectomy: the impact on health status and health care costs<ref name="Santoro2012">{{Cite journal | title = Fibromyalgia and hysterectomy: the impact on health status and health care costs | date = Nov 2012| url = https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22875702/|journal=Clinical Rheumatology|volume=31|issue=11 | pages = 1585–1589 | last = Santoro | first = Maya S. | authorlink = | last2 = Cronan | first2 = Terry A. | authorlink2 = | last3 = Adams | first3 = Rebecca N. | author-link3 = | last4 = Kothari | first4 = Dhwani J. | author-link4 = |doi=10.1007/s10067-012-2051-z|pmc=|pmid=22875702|access-date=|issn=1434-9949|quote=|via=}}</ref> - [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22875702/ (Abstract)] *2009, Increased frequencies of hysterectomy and early menopause in fibromyalgia patients: a comparative study<ref name="Pamuk2009">{{Cite journal | title = Increased frequencies of hysterectomy and early menopause in fibromyalgia patients: a comparative study | date = 2009-05-01| url = https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-009-1087-1|journal=Clinical Rheumatology|volume=28|issue=5 | pages = 561–564 | last = Pamuk | first = Ömer Nuri | last2 = Dönmez | first2 = Salim | last3 = Çakir | first3 = Necati|language=en|doi=10.1007/s10067-009-1087-1|issn=1434-9949}}</ref> - [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-009-1087-1 (Full text)] ==See also== *[[Menstrual problems in ME/CFS]] *[[Menopause]] ==Learn more== *[https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/early-menopause/ Early menopause] - NHS ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Potential comorbidities]] [[Category:Diagnoses]] [[Category:Genitourinary diseases and disorders]] [[Category:Potential comorbidities]]
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