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Article Series: Menopause
Menopause Symptoms and Relief
Advantages
of
Hormone Therapy for Menopausal Women
The
most highly prescribed method today to treat the nasty symptoms
of menopause is through HRT or Hormone Replacement
Therapy. There are more women now than ever taking natural
hormone replacement to help curb the side effects of entering
the menopause phase of life. It is no wonder why it is one
of the fastest growing areas in medicine today. There are
so many happy women out there today that no longer need to
suffer and can once again enjoy life. What the replacement
therapy is all about is giving a woman back the appropriate
levels of hormones that her ovaries are no longer producing
on their own. As the female sex hormones decrease, a woman
will begin to feel the side effects of the onset of menopause.
She will no longer be ovulating regularly or at all. Because
a woman no longer ovulates or does so infrequently she will
also no longer produce enough progesterone as well. This
will also intensify the symptoms as she begins menopause.
HRT will give the body the right amount of both progesterone
and estrogen that reduces any if not all the side effects
of menopause.
Hormone replacement therapy is widely used in many possible
ways to best fit a woman's individual body, symptoms, and health
issues. The most common type of HRT involves using both estrogen
and progesterone replacement at the same time to create the
feel of an actual normal menstrual cycle. This gives a woman's
body the appropriate amount of hormones to mimic each phase
of her cycle. This would be a therapy specifically designed
for women who have a uterus to actually stimulate via the hormones.
A woman would take a regular does of estrogen daily and the
progesterone would slowly increase through out the cycle and
then would be stopped to create a menses to shed the uterine
lining. This gives the body the feel that ovulation has occurred
and makes a woman feel more normal. The estrogens that they
use in HRT come from natural sources and are the same configuration
that occurs naturally in the body. The progesterone supplements
are synthetic versions of the actual hormone and are specifically
meant to bring on a menses and should not be taken by women
who are pregnant or having regular periods. A woman who still
has her uterus will want to be on both hormones to make sure
that she does not get a over growth of the uterine lining.
The only time estrogen therapy alone is given to a woman is
if she no longer has a uterus due to a hysterectomy that caused
surgical menopause. With no uterus there is no need to recreate
menstruation. Progestin-only therapy is not prescribed very
often. Progestin does seem to provide awesome relief for hot
flashes, though.
When a woman uses hormone replacement she is benefiting herself
in so many possible ways. HRT is an excellent way to
help reduce the nasty symptoms of menopause, such as insomnia, fatigue,
depression, incontinence, and vaginal dryness. It can also
significantly reduce the frequency and intensity of hot flashes
and night sweats as well. Using natural estrogen can help make
a woman’s skin feel smoother, help regulate and improve sleep,
and make her less prone to depression. This hormone is also
responsible for keeping the vagina well lubricated and the
muscles in the pelvic floor area tighter to help prevent any
incontinence. Using HRT can also help women prevent bone density
loss and the onset of osteoporosis that can cause them great
pain and suffering later in life. Hormone therapy has been
known to not only reduce or get rid of short-term side effects
of menopause, but the long term ones as well. Advantages include:
- Reduced number and severity of hot flashes
- Decreased dryness and thinning of mucous membranes
- Decreased risk of osteoporosis (bone disease)
- Protection against cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel)
disease
The short-term symptoms of menopause can seriously affect
a woman’s health and well being. The symptoms of menopause
can be truly uncomfortable and even embarrassing to a woman.
Suffering from an array of emotional fluxes and hot flashes
in public can be quite upsetting. The hot flashes a woman gets
at night can cause her to get the sweats and chills. This will
disrupt her sleep and ultimately producing fatigue in the morning.
Using the HRT technology can help women to greatly reduce or
even eliminate the nasty side effects and symptoms that menopause
brings on. Menopause does not have to be a negative experience
anymore.
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: 2006
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