Fields of treatment / Gynecology / Menopause

Menopause symptoms most commonly include hot flushes, sweating, sleep problems, palpitations and loss of sex drive. Women also feel more tired and more irritable. Menopause means that your ovaries produces less and less oestrogen and progesterone, leading to faster aging and generally lower life drive. However, long term effects of low female hormones take some time before they are noticeable.

Less severe menopause symptoms can be treated by administering phytoestrogens, which are plant-derived compounds.

The most efficient treatment of acute menopause symptoms is hormone therapy. But as with any medication, its administration must be for a reason. For those reasons, hormone replacement therapy should only be administered by healthcare provider. Hormone therapy is medication that differs in its composition, method of delivery (pills, patches, implants) and dosing. Therapy must be tailored for each person, and this is of the utmost priority. Therapy is based on factors that include nature of the condition, age, presence or absence of a uterus, results of mammography imaging, family health history, whether the woman wishes to menstruate, and the length of therapy.

Based on current scope of knowledge and results of numerous studies, all experts on the subjects have unanimously agreed on the following: If the rule of an individual approach is followed and treatment of menopause begins early on, the benefits of hormone therapy outweigh its risks.