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Progesterone therapy
What should I expect after early surgical menopause?
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I'm 47 and had my ovaries but not my uterus removed. However, following surgery I wasn't told what to expect, if I needed to take hormones, or what I might experience. Read more...
Progesterone Therapy for Night Sweats in Perimenopause
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I'm 42, waking most nights about 1am and having bad hot flushes some nights. I had to stop the Pill because I got increasing migraines. Read more...
Now Available! The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone Is Better for Women's Health
In this revealing work, Dr. Jerilynn Prior teams up with Susan Baxter, a medical writer, to explain the controversy over medicine prescribing estrogen for perimenopausal women in the United States, and to detail why progesterone is actually a far more effective, and a far less risk-ridden, approach. Read more...
Bewildered by Bio-Identical Hormones
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Are bio-identical hormones safe for treatment in menopause? I have no symptoms but did have a blood clot in my calf years ago when I was first pregnant. I was told then to never take estrogen. Read more...
What is Effective and Safe for Night Sweats in Women with Breast Cancer?
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I'm 47 and wringing the sheets every night with hot flushes. Read more...
Spotting Before Periods
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I’m a 36-year old woman and basically healthy but I keep
having spotting before my flow. I’ve been to several doctors about
it and never gotten a good answer. Read more...
Perimenopause: The Ovary’s Frustrating Grand Finale
Women in midlife increasingly hear the words “estrogen deficiency” spoken as the ultimate in bad news. “Everyone knows” that low estrogen levels cause heart Read more...
Perimenopause is a time of “Endogenous Ovarian Hyperstimulation”
“Perimenopausal endogenous ovarian hyper-stimulation” is the exact opposite of “The Myth of the Shriveling Ovary”: High estrogen levels during Read more...
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