Hormone therapy replacement
Common Questions and Answers about Hormone therapy replacement
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These hormones are very important for normal functioning of our body and if there is a deficiency of these hormones it is important to take hormone replacement therapy to overcome this deficiency.
Please relax HRT will not damage your brain but is essential at the moment for you.
A couple of members here, including myself, watched Robin McGraw yesterday speak about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. Did you know that women as young as their teens can have hormonal imbalances ? And that you can show signs of perimenopause in your 20s... feel horrible and be misdiagnosed with chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia ? And yet the medical field has failed us again on this other issue.
Im reading a lot of advice against the use of hormone replacement therapy, but the studies I have researched report that its the combination of progesterone and estrogen that is bad for you, and that estrogen alone may actually decrease the risk of breast cancer. My question then is has anybody else read any studies similar?
If you're taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) only for hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia, you may want to consider stopping the HRT. The symptoms you listed occur at the onset of menopause and go away over time. Long-term use of HRT is often used if you have or are at risk for osteoporosis. Discuss this option with your physician, if you have osteoporosis there are other medications to treat it.
Unfortunately it is true that replacement therapy can cause infertility, so one way around it is to stimulate directly the testicles (I think they use prolactine for this). As for the insurance, I live in Europe so the cost of the treatment is covered.
Hello,
After hysterectomy, hormone replacement therapy would consist of estrogen alone usually given daily by pill or sometimes weekly or biweekly skin patch.However hormonal replacement therapy should be given for a short time only as long term use may be associated with a small increase in breast cancer.
In my opinion you should consult a gynecologist and start with hormone replacemenr therapy.
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TSH alone is not a good indicator of thyroid function / thyroid hormone levels in the blood. It is a pituitary hormone and doesn't directly let you know your thyroid hormone levels. Sometimes TSH doesn't match with the actual levels, and you need some additional testing.
Have you had your FT3 and FT4 checked? These are the actual thyroid hormone levels in your system. If not, please get them checked, if so, please post the results and the reference ranges.
I told the nurse that I wanted to find another doctor because the staff was difficult to get along with. I take Hormone Replacement Therapy. She called the pharmacy and cancelled all my prescriptions, I had 2 refills before my 6 month follow up so I thought I would have time to get another doctor but she cancelled them. Please advise what to do about this does she have the right?
s plenty of confusion about hormone replacement therapy, which is now commonly called hormone therapy. The truth is that hormone therapy is not a magical cure , but it's still the most effective treatment for unpleasant menopausal symptoms for most women.
Estrogen remains the most effective treatment for relief of troublesome menopausal hot flashes and night sweats. It can also ease vaginal symptoms of menopause, such as dryness, itching, burning and discomfort with intercourse.
thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and calcitonin. Why are patients who have thyroidectomies only prescribed replacement therapy for thyroxine? I would think that if the body use to produce the other two hormones, they are important as well.
This discussion is related to <a href='http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/263611'>Thyroidectomy</a>.
The thing is, these studies are on post menopausal women. I can see where taking a replacement hormone when your body should naturally not be making this hormone anymore could be bad and I wouldn't do it. But what about the people who were thrown into surgical menopause at a time their body would still be producing it?
If your symptoms persist, you may want to contact your gynecologist to see about going on hormone replacement therapy.
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