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The level of estrogen — the main female hormone — in your body rises and falls unevenly during perimenopause. Your menstrual cycles may lengthen or shorten ...
By replenishing the body's stores of estrogen, menopausal hormone therapy can relieve many of menopause's unwanted symptoms. For decades, women took hormones ...
Ovaries make hormones, including estrogen and progesterone, that control the menstrual cycle. Surgery to remove the ovaries causes instant menopause. Your ...
These include cyclic hormone therapy preparations that contain a combination of estrogen and progestin. Progestin helps protect the uterus from endometrial ...
Treatment. Medications are often used to treat perimenopausal symptoms. Hormone therapy. Systemic estrogen therapy — which comes in pill, skin patch, spray, ...
You take it every day for one year. You have no times without hormones. Vaginal ring (NuvaRing). Like estrogen-progestin birth control pills, you can delay or ...
When taken regularly, GnRH analogues stop the body from making sex hormones. That includes testosterone and estrogen. Sex hormones affect: Primary sex ...
Jewel Kling, M.D., chair of the Division of Women's Health at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, describes hormonal and nonhormonal therapies for ...
Some medicines block signals that tell the testicles to make testosterone. These medicines are called luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonists and ...
Progesterone is used to help prevent changes in the uterus (womb) in women who are taking conjugated estrogens after menopause. It is also used to properly ...
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