Menopause & Hand Pain

If you are experiencing hand pain and are a menopausal woman, your pain may be caused, in part, by fluctuating and then diminishing hormones.

Hormones and Their Influence

• Curehandpain.com explains that carpal tunnel syndrome may be aggravated by changes in hormones. If you are experiencing tingling, numbness and pain in your hand, particularly at night, you may have developed this condition.

Other Influential Diseases

• Carpal tunnel syndrome can also be the outcome of repetitive use of your hands; arthritis, which many menopausal women struggle with; a thyroid gland imbalance, which is also prevalent among menopausal women; and diabetes, another illness that many menopausal women must deal with.

Age and Diseases

• Aging puts you at higher risk for numerous diseases, and these conditions can result in hand and body pain, according to Achuherbxia.com. Arthritis can cause hand pain as can systemic diseases such as scleroderma, lupus, gout, diabetes, Paget's disease and leukemia.

Other Considerations

• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has investigated the relationship between musculoskeletal pain, in the hands and elsewhere, and the sex hormones estradiol, androstendione, testosterone and DHEA-S, along with prolactin, during the menopausal transition. Menopausal pain is significantly related to estradiol, the NIH concluded.

Bone Loss

• Estradiol impacts a woman's organs and her bones as well as her sexual and reproductive functioning. Loss of estradiol, along with other hormones during menopause, can accelerate the loss of bone mass and result in osteopororis, which eventually can cause bone pain.