Search Results 11-20 of 15658 for Hormone Horizons
Ovaries make hormones, including estrogen and progesterone, that control the menstrual cycle. Surgery to remove the ovaries causes instant menopause. Your ...
From night sweats to hot flashes, for the average woman, hormone therapy can help manage the symptoms of menopause.
The level of estrogen — the main female hormone — in your body rises and falls unevenly during perimenopause. Your menstrual cycles may lengthen or shorten ...
When taken regularly, GnRH analogues stop the body from making sex hormones. That includes testosterone and estrogen. Sex hormones affect: Primary sex ...
By replenishing the body's stores of estrogen, menopausal hormone therapy can relieve many of menopause's unwanted symptoms. For decades, women took hormones ...
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 ...
These tests check the body's hormone levels before and after taking medicines that cause the body to make hormones. Brain imaging. MRI or CT scans of the brain ...
Jewel Kling, M.D., chair of the Division of Women's Health at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, describes hormonal and nonhormonal therapies for ...
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