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February 16, 2016 by hormonepharmacist Leave a Comment

Menopause Symptoms: The Best Treatment For Hot Flashes

Menopause Symptoms: The Best Treatment For Hot Flashes

Are you struggling with the symptoms of menopause?

• Hot flashes making you crazy?
• Night sweats keeping you awake?  Maybe your partner too?
• Can’t get back to sleep?
• Feeling depressed?
• Cloudy thinking?
• Irritable?
• Loss of desire for your partner?

If you’re 45 to 50 and starting to experience hot flashes, night sweats, difficulty sleeping and maybe even vaginal dryness and painful sex . . . you’re not alone.

Somewhere close to 6000 women go into menopause in the US every single day.  That’s over 2 million women a year!  Some women sail through menopause with no issues but a lot of women have pretty bad symptoms.

Maybe that’s you?

75% of menopausal women have hot flashes – uncontrollable explosions of heat that take over your whole body.  You’ll sweat profusely, tear at your clothes and want to pour ice water on your head.

You can’t run away from a hot flash.  You just cool off as best you can and wait until the fire inside dies down.

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Filed Under: Menopause Tagged With: bioidentical hormones, dyspareunia, estradiol, estrogen, hormones, hot flashes, how long does menopause last, hrt, menopause, menopause age, menopause symptoms, night sweats, perimenopause, Premarin®, progesterone, signs of menopause, symptoms of menopause, vaginal dryness

October 3, 2015 by hormonepharmacist

Menopause Keeping You Awake?

Menopause Keeping You Awake?

Sleep is important. It’s really important.

If you deprive someone of sleep for several days to a week, it’s considered torture.

Sleep deprivation can actually kill a human being.

Beyond the threat of dying directly from lack of sleep, not getting your shuteye is known to have serious, even life-threatening, indirect effects including: [1. “10 Things To Hate About Sleep Loss” webmd.com]

  • BANG! – Accidents (especially while driving)
  • Stupidity
    • Reduced attention and alertness
    • Poor concentration/reasoning/problem solving
    • Memory issues ( WHERE ARE MY KEYS?)
  • Heart problems
  • High blood pressure
  • Diabetes
  • Stroke
  • Weight gain and obesity
  • Reduced testosterone in men (which may affect libido)
  • Depression

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Filed Under: Menopause Tagged With: apnea, hormones, hot flashes, insomnia, night sweats, progesterone, sleep

July 7, 2015 by hormonepharmacist

Hot Flashes

Hot Flashes

What’s Happening During A Hot Flash?

This helpful infographic from Everyday Health shows what happens physiologically during the course of a hot flash.

Everyday Health
Physiology of a hot flash courtesy of Everyday Health

Filed Under: Menopause Tagged With: hormones, hot flashes, hrt, infographic, menopause, menopause symptoms, signs of menopause, symptoms of menopause

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