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You may gain a lot of life experience and wisdom through aging, but it also takes a toll on the body especially for women entering menopause. The idea of menopause conjures up symptoms such as unexpected mood swings, hot flashes or difficulty in sleeping, but hardly foot pain. Unfortunately, the more we age, the more chances our feet will give us problems. Being the case, here is what you need to know about the relationship between menopause and foot pain and the best ways to help suffering feet.
You can blame that foot discomfort due to those hormonal changes and the loss of estrogen. Why it makes such a difference to how your feet used to feel compared to how your feet may feel now is because estrogen depletion causes the ligaments and tendons to weaken and become inflamed in the feet and elsewhere in the body. The reason the problem is worse in the foot area is because of all the wear our feet get daily that only compounds the problem of foot and joint pain.

Another reason our feet undergo more pain is because missing estrogen also causes the fatty padding on the feet to flatten more. This causes foot skin to tighten and blood vessels in the area to constrict more to red...