A Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy

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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
Women in their forties and fifties undergo
menopausal and premenopausal symptoms such as
tiredness, mood swings, hot flushes, and more.
Estrogen and progesterone are two hormones that
contribute their impacts on women reproduction.
While estrogen helps in regular releases of eggs
from the ovaries, progesterone prepares the womb
for receiving the ultimate fertilized egg.
Losing weight is not always the prime focus. At
times, people who are aging should be more
concerned about the required hormone production
in the body, due to which the body functions
well. This is where the hormone replacement
therapy in San Antonio comes into being.
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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
How Hormonal Changes Affect Menopause The
perimenopause happens to be the period when your
body reduces productions of eggs gradually in
ovaries. This particular process happens between
the period of 3 and 10 years. Around 50 years,
the normal adult woman can attain attains
menopause. And the year post the process, it gets
termed as the post-menopause phase. During the
premenopausal period, the estrogen levels can
drop down at faster rates that result in several
symptoms such as

• Skin itching
• Vaginal dryness
• Hair fall
• Bone thinning
• Insomnia

• Hot flushes
• Mood swings
• Irregular periods
• Lack of concentration
• Fewer firm breasts

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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
Defining Hormone Replacement Therapy
In order to combat side effects of the low
estrogen levels, women opt for the hormone
replacement therapy or safely referred to as HRT.
This particular therapy can balance progesterone
and estrogen levels in the women around their
menopause. It gets performed for offering aid to
women and combat menopause side effects of. In
the process of HRT, progesterone and estrogen
hormones get replaced with the synthetic
variations namely estrone, estradiol,
medroxyprogesterone, estriol, norethisterone, and
more.
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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
Defining Hormone Replacement Therapy

• Estrogen only HRT where patients get administered
  only estrogen. The therapy gets administered for
  ones whose uterus gets removed through
  hysterectomy
• Combined HRT, where this treatment involves
  taking the hormones together
• Continuous HRT combined is only recommended for
  the women undergoing their post-menopausal phase.
  During this stage, one takes estrogen and
  progesterone supplements daily.

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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
The Several Benefits of HRT

• There are multiple benefits of HRT that are
  mentioned below
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• Relieves tiredness
• Alleviates symptoms of hot flushes
• Increases sex drive
• Reduces vaginal dryness
• Resolves insomnia issues
• Resolves skin itching makes skin glow
• Alleviates possibilities of memory loss
• Helps women to stay safe from the hepatitis
  infection
• Reduces bone thinning as well as prevents fracture

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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
What are a few risks associated with HRT?

• There are a couple of risks that may not happen
  in all women. And these are
• HRT tablets causing blood clots
• HRT tablets causing stomach indigestion
• Strokes or cancers for severe conditions

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Short Guide to Hormone Replacement Therapy
What are the common HRT techniques?

• Here are some of the Techniques of the HRT and
  they are
• Skin patches
• Eating tablets
• Implants
• Estrogen gel applications
• The therapy regimen of HRT entirely depends on
  how menopausal symptoms get experienced by women.
  In general, it is always preferred for women to
  override physical as well as emotional changes
  during their menopause. And HRT gets discontinued
  once menopausal symptoms start ceasing, ideally
  around 2 years during post-menopause.

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