Tuesday 3 April 2012

Is Hormone Replacement Therapy Right For You?

By Jake Alexandre


When a person reaches his old age, he/her comes to get affected with many of the changes with the worsening conditions in his/her body. An example of this is menopause. In this situation, a woman notices symptoms that are associated with hormones declining in her body. These symptoms are those that are experienced as early as when a women starts to enter her late thirties.

The symptoms that are associated with this make a women realize the fact that now reproduction will be difficult for her and she is reaching that stage which is known as menopause. When these symptoms are taken into review, a woman comes across a variety of symptoms which include psychiatric, psychological, and physical symptoms and all of these make her a likely candidate for Hormone Replacement Therapy.

When it is about Hormone Replacement Therapy, we must know that it is not only used for alleviating the symptoms of menopause but it is also used for many other purposes for example in handling the pre-mature ovarian failure syndrome. However, we will take the Hormone Replacement Therapy into particular consideration for menopause only.

Every good thing comes along with a group of adverse things also. This can also be applied to Hormone Replacement Therapy which has come along with some negative aspects too. For example endometrial and breast cancer association has been long present with Hormone Replacement Therapy and the association of heart diseases have also been a key factor because of which this therapy has received so many resistance.

Hormone Replacement Therapy is the best for those who have a family history of osteoporosis because this is a disease that can not only lead to pathological fractures but diseases secondary to it such as pulmonary embolism which can lead to rapid death if not treated at the right time.

Hormone Replacement Therapy is a very effective treatment option for the relief of menopausal symptoms in women.

However, it should also be known that Hormone Replacement Therapy also comes with a list of adverse effects along with it. It is not indicated for those who have a previous history of breast or reproductive tract cancers. The paradoxical part over here also is that it is associated with resistance of developing cancers in the colon and rectum.

It must be mentioned here that there are medications available now that can counter-attack the symptoms of menopause even better than Hormone Replacement Therapy. Therefore, it is in the best of interests for a woman to give a try to these medications before they go for hormone replacement. To conclude, it must be said that Hormone Replacement Therapy is a really good idea for those women who are reaching menopause or have developed menopausal symptoms. However, the medications come along with a list of adverse effects and for this, a woman should be adequately counseled by her attending physician.




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