3 Reasons Your Menopause Symptoms Keep On Coming Back, and What You Can Do About It.
If you feel like your menopause symptoms keep coming back no matter what you try, you are not alone.
Many women experience frustrating cycles of hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, vaginal dryness, weight gain, and sleep problems—even after following medical advice, trying hormone replacement therapy (HRT), or making lifestyle changes.
It can feel like you’re doing everything right but still battling symptoms of menopause like low mood, joint pain, urinary incontinence, irregular periods, and even a loss of sex drive.
You might have had blood tests done, spoken to a healthcare provider, or explored treatment options, but the symptoms keep returning.
Here’s the truth: Most common approaches focus on managing symptoms at the surface level, without addressing the deeper hormonal fluctuations, health conditions, or lifestyle factors that drive these issues.
That’s why the relief you find is often temporary.
Before we dive into the 3 reasons your symptoms keep on coming back—and how to create lasting transformation—let’s quickly talk about the phase that leads up to menopause: perimenopause.
What Is Perimenopause?
Perimenopause is the natural transition phase before your last menstrual period.
It can begin several years before menopause (the point when you have gone 12 consecutive months without a period), and is triggered by hormonal changes, particularly fluctuating oestrogen and progesterone levels.
During perimenopause, you might experience irregular periods, hot flushes, vaginal bleeding between periods, brain fog, muscle aches, mood swings, sleep problems, and even early signs of bone loss.
This stage often starts between 40 and 45 years of age. However, some women experience early menopause or premature menopause (before 40) due to primary ovarian insufficiency, medical reasons like breast cancer treatment, or birth control impacts.
The average age of menopause is around 51. Still, perimenopausal hormonal fluctuations can create a big impact on your daily life, mental health, and physical well-being for several years before you officially reach menopause.
Understanding the menopausal transition is essential because it’s not just about vasomotor symptoms like hot flushes and night sweats—it’s about shifts in your nervous system, blood vessels, vaginal tissue, bone density, and metabolism, all of which influence your quality of life and long-term health risks like female cancers, dementia and coronary heart disease.
Learn more about the role of progesterone in menopause HERE.
Why Surface-Level Solutions Fail
When you’re desperate for relief from menopausal symptoms, it’s natural to reach for quick fixes.
However, most traditional treatment options—including hormone replacement therapy (HRT), fad diets, or a shelf full of supplements—are surface-level solutions.
They might mask the symptoms temporarily, but they don’t solve the deeper hormonal changes happening in your body.
Let’s break it down:
- Diets Aren’t Designed for the Menopausal Transition. Many popular diets focus on weight loss without understanding the unique hormone changes during the menopausal transition. Low-calorie plans or restrictive eating often backfire by increasing blood sugar instability, worsening mood changes, and even contributing to muscle aches and bone loss. Without addressing the real shifts, like wildly fluctuating estrogen levels, insulin resistance, and slowed metabolism, these diets can make weight gain and low mood worse over time.
- Hormone Replacement Therapy Masks, But Doesn’t Heal. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), including menopausal hormone therapy, is often promoted as the go-to solution for managing menopausal symptoms. While it may offer short-term relief for some, it doesn’t rebuild the body’s natural systems or address the underlying causes, like chronic inflammation, poor gut health, or sluggish detox pathways. What’s more, menopause is a natural biological transition—a purposeful slowing down of estrogen, not a mistake to correct. Persistently elevating estrogen levels through external hormones may offer symptom relief, but it also prolongs the very hormone environment that the body is naturally trying to recalibrate. For many women, relying solely on HRT leads to the return of symptoms when the dose is reduced or stopped, because the real root causes were never addressed. Supporting your body through this transition holistically, rather than overriding it, is often the most sustainable and protective approach, especially when considering the link between excess estrogen and conditions like breast cancer.
- Supplements Alone Can’t Fill the Gaps. While supplements like magnesium, vitamin D, or herbal remedies can support your health, they are not a substitute for a strong foundation of a well-balanced daily diet, effective working internal systems, and stress regulation. You can’t “supplement away” problems like sluggish liver detoxification, poor gut microbiome balance, or chronic inflammation. Issues like urinary tract infections, vaginal atrophy, sleep problems, and urinary incontinence often persist despite taking handfuls of pills if the true cause isn’t addressed.
Surface-Level = Temporary Relief
When the focus is only on symptoms, rather than the whole-body system, you might experience cycles of temporary improvement followed by flare-ups of symptoms of perimenopause.
Real, lasting change happens when you stop firefighting symptoms and start rebuilding health from the ground up.
The 3 Reasons Your Menopause Symptoms Keep On Coming Back
If you’ve tried various treatments for menopausal symptoms—from HRT to supplements to lifestyle changes—and still find your symptoms returning, it’s frustrating.
Understanding why this happens can empower you to make lasting changes.
Here are the 3 reasons your menopause symptoms keep on coming back:
Reason 1: Ignoring the Root Causes of Hormonal Imbalances
It’s easy to assume that menopausal symptoms are purely caused by fluctuating estrogen levels. However, hormonal changes are just the tip of the iceberg. The real root causes of recurring symptoms are often linked to insulin resistance, poor gut health, stress, and inflammation.
For example, blood sugar imbalances and metabolic syndrome can create ongoing problems with weight gain, mood swings, and even joint pain.
Meanwhile, gut health issues may contribute to vaginal dryness or chronic urinary tract infections. Ignoring these deeper factors makes it impossible to achieve lasting relief.
Reason 2: Treating Menopause Like a “Problem to Fix” Instead of a Natural Transition
Menopause is a natural life transition, not a problem to be “fixed.” When you approach menopause with the mindset that it’s something to fight or cure, it can lead to frustration and constant symptom-chasing.
Instead of focusing on managing individual symptoms, it’s important to work on holistic lifestyle changes that support your body’s natural hormone levels, bone density, metabolism, and overall well-being.
Treating menopause like a life stage rather than a disease allows you to embrace its challenges and adapt to your body’s evolving needs.
Many women experience mental health struggles, like low mood, during this phase because they haven’t acknowledged that it’s not about getting back to “how things were” but rather, building a future of vibrant health that works with the changes in your body.
Reason 3: Lack of a Structured, Sustainable Approach
Most women rely on scattered, short-term solutions like diet fads or short-term menopausal hormone therapy to combat symptoms of perimenopause.
These fixes offer temporary relief but don’t tackle the real, underlying issues.
Without a sustainable plan to address hormonal fluctuations, lifestyle changes, and long-term health goals, your symptoms will inevitably return.
What’s missing is a holistic, step-by-step approach to address the root causes of recurring symptoms, restore balance, and support long-term health.
This means going beyond surface-level fixes and focusing on the foundation of hormone health—building long-term, sustainable strategies that align with your lifestyle and support your personal health goals.
How the SHIFT System Can Help You Break the Cycle
If you’re tired of battling the same menopause symptoms over and over again, it’s time for a new approach—one that works with your body, not against it.
My SHIFT System offers a holistic solution that goes beyond surface-level fixes, helping you understand the root causes of your symptoms and empowering you to take control of your menopausal transition with clarity and confidence.
Here’s how the SHIFT System can help you finally break the cycle:
Unlike traditional treatments that only address individual symptoms like hot flushes, vaginal atrophy, or mood swings, the SHIFT System looks at the whole picture. It focuses on the interconnectedness of your hormonal fluctuations through perimenopause and beyond, such as gut health, inflammation, and stress, to bring your body back into harmony.
By addressing the root causes of recurring symptoms like weight gain, sleep problems, joint pain, and mental health issues, you’ll not only experience lasting symptom relief, but you’ll also improve your long-term health, reduce bone density loss, and protect against female cancers and other health conditions that increase during menopause.
The 8-Step Ignite Pathway: A Structured Roadmap to Lasting Change
At the heart of the SHIFT System is the Ignite Pathway, an 8-step process designed to help you tackle the root causes of hormonal imbalances and optimise your body’s hormone levels for better overall health. Here’s a brief look at what it includes:
- Balanced Meals & Healthy Weight: Learn how to nourish your body with a balanced diet that supports healthy weight, blood sugar regulation, and mood stability.
- Gut Health: Support your digestive system to reduce inflammation, improve gut microbiome, and ease vaginal dryness and urinary tract infections.
- Liver Health & Detox: Detoxify your body naturally to support estrogen metabolism and reduce symptoms like brain fog, hot flushes, and sleep problems.
- Autoimmune Conditions & Inflammation: Address underlying inflammation and autoimmune conditions that often worsen during menopause, contributing to muscle aches, bone loss, and heart palpitations.
- Non-Diet Practices & Intermittent Fasting: Learn how to work with your body, not against it, through practices like intermittent fasting that balance insulin levels, reduce high blood pressure, and stabilise mood swings.
- Cycle Awareness & Stress Management: Harness the power of cyclical living to align your energy and focus with your natural rhythm, helping you manage stress, improve mental health, and restore a sense of control over your daily life.
- Self-Care & Restorative Practices: Incorporate self-care rituals that support your nervous system, reduce brain fog, and create a more peaceful, balanced mental state.
- Sustainable Lifestyle Changes: Build a long-term action plan that fits your unique needs and allows you to maintain good health, improve your quality of life, and protect against future health risks.
The SHIFT System isn’t about a quick fix or one-size-fits-all advice.
It’s a personalised, sustainable approach to understanding your body’s needs, embracing hormonal changes, and designing a lifestyle that works with your changing body.
By focusing on lifestyle changes that nourish your body and mind, you’ll experience relief from your unique set of menopause symptoms and protect your long-term health and well-being.
Ready to Break the Cycle? Join The Menopause SHIFT Method Program Today
If you’re tired of feeling like your menopause symptoms keep coming back despite your best efforts, the SHIFT System is here to offer you a lasting solution.
Join the SHIFT System to get started on your personalised pathway to menopause relief.
Take action today and start living the life you deserve. Find out more HERE.