Menopause Hormone Therapy
- Menopause Hormone Therapy
Hormone Therapy -Right Choice To Treat Menopause?
Menopause Hormone Therapy -Right Choice To Treat Menopause?
A few days back, on one fine day at my clinic, a door of my chamber was opened by a middle aged lady, slightly plump with a mix of depressed and anxious look, limping due to knee pain and wiping perspiration in 28degree temperature!!!! I was surprised to see, the change in a lady whom I know, some years ago as an active, zealous and enjoying life’s every moment happily….she herself was aware of the change and had come to seek an advice for the same. I explained her that she was passing through a stage of Menopause. At a first glance, the hormones, seems to be an answer to her problems, but, Menopause Hormone Therapy is associated with lots of controversies, due to its side effects and risk of developing cancer in long term. So, it was my responsibility to make her aware of the benefits and side effects of hormone replacement therapy before choosing Menopause Hormone Therapy.
Menopause Hormone Therapy
Menopause- is a natural transitional phase of life that nearly 80%of women experience, with some kind of symptoms. Menopause is not a disease but just a natural change occurring in every woman who menstruates. As woman crosses the age of 40 and plus, her ovaries slowly reduces the production of female hormones i.e. estrogen and progesterone, these are the hormones, responsible for the normal menstruation. Hence, the gradual decline in the functioning of the ovaries, one day results in permanent cessation of menstrual cycle-MENOPAUSE(Menopause Hormone Therapy).
Menopause Hormone Therapy
Menopause usually occurs at any time from age 40 to 59 and in some even it may start as early as the late thirties. A woman often had menopause about the same age as her mother. In some women menstruation stops suddenly, whereas in others it declines slowly with less bleeding and with escape of 1or 2 cycles.
Menopause Hormone Therapy
Women, whose both ovaries are removed surgically, also had same symptoms of menopause, but if only the uterus is taken out, then she will not have periods and no surgical menopause. Gradually woman’s body adapts the changes and the symptoms go away on their own in time.
Menopause Hormone Therapy
Doctors find solution in Menopause Hormone Therapyy
(Known as menopause hormone therapy)
To control and minimize the significant effects of the difficult phase of woman’s life, doctors recommend MENOPAUSAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY (MHT or HRT). MHT means,(Menopause Hormone Therapy) to replace or supplement the deficiency of female hormones artificially, in woman’s body, by using products that contains adequate amount of required hormones. MHT usually involves treatment with either estrogen alone or estrogen in combination with progesterone, or progestin – a synthetic form of progesterone that has similar effect as progesterone.
Menopause Hormone Therapy
The estrogen alone is generally given to woman who had undergone the hysterectomy. Where as, the combination of estrogen and progestin is prescribed for the woman who had normal functioning uterus, so as to reduce the risk of developing endometrial cancer in later.
The Menopause Hormone Therapy are prescibed in the form of oral tablets, vaginal gel, patch ,cream or tablet, skin patch, gel or cream and IUD depending of the requirment, to controle symptoms such as,
Menopause Hormone Therapy
Physical symptoms:Menopause Hormone Therapy
- Hot flashes and palpitation,
- Night sweats
- Increased in body fat, especially around your waist
- Vaginal dryness with overall dryness of skin
- Formication (feeling like ants are crawling on your body)
- Hair thinning or loss
- Loss of libido
- Recurrent urinary infections
- Osteoporosis
Psychological:Menopause Hormone Therapy
- Mood swings
- Forgetfulness, brain fog, problems with concentration and memory
- General irritability
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Panic attack, with crying without a reason
- Insomnia
Menopause Hormone Therapy
According to various studies medicines containing various forms of the female hormones estrogen and progestin are highly effective at reducing the symptoms of menopause. It shows that 70 to 90 percent of women had experienced an average 75 percent reduction in the frequency of hot flushes and night sweats with marked reduction in vaginal dryness improved by Menopause Hormone Therapy.
- Hot flushes and night sweats, that helps woman to have sound sleep
- Irritability can be controlled with good sound sleep.
- A woman, may come across certain problem in her marital relation and or she may loss self confidence due to urogenital changes. Both of that can be over come with MHT. As MHT reduces dryness and discomfort of vagina that causes painful intercourse and reduced libido and also controls urinary incontinence.
- Decrease amount of estrogen in body for longer periods leads to bone loss or osteoporosis, which can be controlled with replacement of estrogen, which also reduces the risk of developing cardio vascular diseases.
- MHT is also found effective in controlling mood swings and depressive symptoms.
Menopause Hormone Therapy
