Monday, July 13, 2009
Estrogen and Progesterone for Menopause
"If you wait long enough, the pendulum will swing back", is a statement I have made to women patients who had concerns about taking estrogen and progesterone for menopause symptoms. In 2002 the Women's Health Initiative study was all over the news and it implicated hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in causing breast cancer, heart attack, and strokes. No wonder women freaked out, stopped taking