Symptoms and Complications Associated with Menopausal Transition

Your ovaries produce hormones, including estrogen and progesterone that control the menstrual cycle. Surgery to remove your ovaries causes immediate menopause. Your periods stop, and you're probable to have hot flashes and experience other menopausal signs and symptoms. Signs and symptoms can be severe, as hormonal changes arise abruptly rather than progressively over several years. Surgery that removes your uterus but not your ovaries (hysterectomy) usually doesn't cause instantaneous menopause. Although you no longer have periods, your ovaries still release eggs and generate estrogen and progesterone.