There is the physician who can prescribe treatment for menopause with hormone replacement therapy (HRT), they are nevertheless evidence of strict recommendations to avoid for women at risk.
Only your doctor can prescribe the appropriate treatment based on hormones after having discussed all the risks and benefits.
Remarks on HRT:
1. When should I take hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
Treatment of menopausal hormone replacement (or HRT) at menopause have demonstrated during the 2004 recommendations of new (renewed by a French study of Inserm dated November 19 and 04 of 2005).
However, according to a new survey from Inserm (2005) HRT are not all identical, we distinguished between HRT with estrogen alone or in combination HRT estrogen and micronized progesterone (identical in structure to natural progesterone) and these two treatments (hormones estrogen alone and micronized) would present no (or less likely) to cause breast cancer in patients that conventional HRT.
For conventional HRT (combination estrogen progestin synthesis) doctors recommend taking hormones at menopause only when the patient feels hot flashes, most of it should not cons-indications in the patient (see below) which should always be informed by the medical risk-benefit ratio of prescribing hormone replacement therapy (HRT), duration of treatment should not exceed 3 years. You can also think, with the consent of your doctor, a natural alternative herbal,>> more.
Such caution in prescribing of HRT followed up 40% of breast cancers in HRT treatment, 40% may seem a lot but if we are talking about 5 women out of 1,000 aged 55 who develop breast cancer with or without HRT, we can speak of 7 women 2 more with HRT, and it is very little, hence the difficulty of taking HRT or not in case of severe symptoms of menopause, but only Your doctor can really tell you about this risk-benefit ratio. (more…)
