All women after a certain age stop getting their periods, a term which we call as menopause. The Indian women on an average stop getting their periods around 51 years of age but a few years prior to it there is a phase called climacteric where the menopausal symptoms start appearing and the periods get a bit haywire. It is this time when women need lot of support and counselling as to what is normal and what is not as at this age women are at a higher chance of getting cancers. Menopause is that time of the women’s life when her ovaries stop producing the female hormone estrogen. As the estrogen levels in the body decreases there is an irregularity in the menses which sets in.