Some doctors are saying it is safe to use hormone therapy again for menopause. The therapy has been fine-tuned and uses much smaller doses for shorter periods.
A decade after millions of women went cold turkey on the hormone pills that controlled their hot flashes, mood swings and other menopausal symptoms, some doctors say the therapy is safe to try again.
The once-feared hormone therapy is now offered in smaller doses and for a shorter time period, said Dr. Christopher Englert, director of obstetrics and gynecology at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J. “More and more women are coming back to it.”
Englert is among the physicians who think too many doctors and patients backed completely away from hormone replacement therapy when really what was needed was some “fine-tuning of our approach to using it.”
In the 1980s and 1990s, women going through or approaching the change of life were routinely prescribed estrogen and progestin tablets as a way to prevent severe hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia and other miserable symptoms. Replacing the estrogen their bodies lost in menopause also helped in preventing osteoporosis, and, at the time, hormone therapy was believed to offer a host of other benefits, from preventing… continue reading
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