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Better Menopause Management: 4 Health Benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy
For millions of women, menopause is far more than a few hot flashes, and even these shouldn’t be discounted in terms of impact.
The reality is that, each year in the United States, 1.3 million women begin their transition through menopause and can face more than 30 identified side effects of menopause. And these side effects are no small things — they range from anxiety and sleep issues to vaginal dryness and bone loss.
As a family care practice, Dr. Scott Lafferty and our team at Lafferty Family Care help our patients through every stage of life, and that includes menopause. And when it comes to this significant hormonal transition, we’ve found great success with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
Here are just some of the many benefits of BHRT for easing the menopause journey.
1. Turning down the heat with hormone replacement
Hot flashes and night sweats are common symptoms of menopause which affect about 75% of women. These sudden and intense bursts of body heat are far more than a nuisance and can be highly disruptive, both during the day and at night when you’re trying to sleep.
With BHRT, we can turn down the heat on hot flashes and night sweats by rebalancing your reproductive hormone levels.
2. Restore vaginal health
When your reproductive hormone levels drop, your vaginal health can also decline. More than half of women between the ages of 51 and 60 report vaginal dryness, which can make sexual intercourse uncomfortable.
The best way to restore health to your vaginal tissues is to replenish your supply of estrogen, which can increase lubrication and help with thinning vaginal tissues.
3. Keep bones strong
Did you know that menopause can speed up bone loss? Up to 20% of bone loss can occur during and after menopause. This loss is tied to the drop in estrogen, which we can remedy through hormone replacement therapy.
4. Reduce stress and anxiety
Many women experience heightened stress and anxiety after they transition through menopause which may be tied to the side effects of menopause, the lack of sleep, and the impact that reproductive hormones have on mood regulation.
Through BHRT, we can reduce the symptoms of menopause and get you feeling more like your old self again.
A word about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy
We’ve been referencing BHRT, and we want to quickly explain what this entails. As the name suggests, the hormones that we deliver are chemically identical to your natural estrogen hormones.
The hormones come in pellets that we implant just beneath the surface of your skin, and they slowly release the hormones into your system over four months, at which point you return for another round of pellets.
In many cases, we also prescribe an oral progesterone pill that you take daily to complement the hormone replacement therapy.
This systemic approach allows the hormones to make a meaningful impact on all the areas of your health that we mention above.
If you’d like to explore whether bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is right for you, we’re here to help. To get started, please contact our office in Rogers, Arkansas, to schedule an appointment today.
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