What menopause symptoms commonly occur with joint pain?
Joint pain in menopause usually comes with stiffness first, especially in the morning. Some women also notice a dull ache at rest, tightness with movement, a burning feeling, or occasional shooting pains. It most often affects the knees, hips, and shoulders, but it can also show up in the neck, jaw, back, elbows, wrists, and fingers.
It can also be part of a broader low-estrogen pattern, so joint pain may happen around the same time as hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems, fatigue, mood changes, brain fog, vaginal dryness, lower libido, drier skin, or hair shedding. Here at Alloy, our joint pain symptom page and article on menopause joint pain and musculoskeletal syndrome go into this in more detail. If joint pain is part of your overall menopause symptoms, our treatment options page explains estrogen-based MHT, which is the gold-standard treatment for menopause-related joint pain.
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