Some «experts» will tell you that
you need estrogen therapy to successful rid yourself of the symptoms.
Not exact matches
Low doses of prescription medications, including antidepressants, can help relieve hot flashes in overweight women who
need immediate relief, Dr. Nachtigall says, as can hormone
therapy, which replaces
estrogen and other hormones that decline during menopause.
Is this the right decision, and do you even
need a prescription for
estrogen therapy?
Estrogen replacement
therapy has long been understood as a remedy for women who are suffering from a variety of side effects following menopause, but what many women don't know is that testosterone replacement
therapy may also
need to be added to the mix to properly balance hormone levels.
If deemed the right choice, you will then receive an
estrogen therapy prescription for the type of
estrogen best suited to your
needs.
Estradiol is a form of
estrogen you
need to monitor if you're receiving hormone replacement
therapy.
A: Progesterone is
needed in hormone replacement
therapy for menopausal women for many reasons, but one of its most important roles is to balance or oppose the effects of
estrogen.
However, during the»30s and»40s, when scientists were kicking such ideas around, there was no known method of extracting enough progesterone from animals to provide the
therapy to the people who
needed it — 80,000 pigs» ovaries were
needed to extract a minuscule amount of
estrogen — and cost would have been prohibitive to virtually anyone who wanted such a drug.