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Menopause with Progesterone & Estrogen Supplements
With women in pre-menopause, it’s possible that your doctor can put you on birth control pills. As the name suggests and as you probably know, birth control pills will provide birth control. But what you may not know is that birth control pills make your periods more regular, lower your chance of cancer of the uterus, as well as cancer of the ovaries.
In addition, birth control pills can also help with hot flashes. Unfortunately, taking the birth control pill hides the exact time of arrival of menopause. For this reason, if you think you have entered menopause you should stop taking the pill for a few months to see if you still maintain a regular period.
Once you have reached the stage of menopause in your life, it’s possible that your physician may recommend for you to take hormones including progesterone or estrogen. This is also known as hormone replacement therapy, long for HRT. If you’re a woman without a uterus, your doctor could possibly suggest taking estrogen alone. This is called ERT, or estrogen replacement therapy.
Both hormones can be taken either as a cream, vaginal insert, skin patch, or probably the easiest form, pills. If you take hormones for less than a period of several years (five or so), you might help relieve some of the symptoms related to menopause. On the other hand, if you take HRT or ERT for more than five years you could help delay the effects of osteoporosis and you may even help protect yourself against heart disease.
In addition, your bad cholesterol may lower and you could start remembering more with an improved memory. According to recently published report involving findings at an American Academy of Neurology conference, HRT taken shortly after you start menopause has the ability to help against dementia as well. The risk for dementia was 1% in those women that started hormone replacement therapy early, as opposed to those women who didn’t and had a 1.7% risk of dementia. This is on average about a 70% higher relative risk for developing dementia.
Sources used:
http://www.uspharmd.com/2007/2007_05_03.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5204360
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