Hormone therapy for Hot Flashes
Posted on May 13, 2009 under Hot Flashes, Menopause | No Comment
Hormone therapy is the use of certain drugs — estrogen alone or in combination with a progesterone or an androgen (a form of testosterone) — to treat hot flashes and other physical changes women experience in menopause.
It used to be called hormone replacement therapy, but the word replacement was recently dropped because the treatment never literally increased hormones to premenopausal levels. It simply treats the symptoms of menopause, says Dr. Tami Shandro, a physician with the provincial menopause clinics at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital.