What Doctors Don't Tell YouExcessive bleeding or pain
* Drugs or devices: birth-control pills; drugs that reduce female hormones; a blood-clotting agent called tranexamic acid; an intrauterine device -
New evidence suggests that the early loss of naturally produced oestrogen - a side-effect of a hysterectomy - may increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
Women with low bone density after menopause can slow or prevent osteoporosis by a combination of exercise and calcium supplementation to an acceptable degree without the side effects of hormone re ...
Several doctors have reported success in treating the menopause without drugs. Nutritional medicine experts Drs Stephen Davies and Alan Stewart recommend that women undergoing the menopause have ...
New data suggest that a combined oestrogen-proges-togen regime poses a greater risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women than oestrogen alone (JAMA, 2000; 283: 485-91). ...
Menopausal women are being prescribed hormone replacement therapy by their doctors with inadequate consultation or discussion, according to a survey. ...
Oncologists often have only one strategy when dealing with breast cancer: stop the flow of oestrogen to the tumour. Although only half of all breast cancers depend on oestrogen, it’s become a one-size-fits-all approach.
I am presently going through menopause at 54 years of age. My principal symptom has been disrupted sleep - and the need to urinate more frequently during the night has doubtless contributed to this.
The actual causes of seizures are still relatively unknown. The majority of patients with epilepsy can identify at least one precipitant that can trigger or exacerbate seizures
Before the menopause, I was a healthy outgoing person. I ate a well-balanced diet, took vitamin, mineral and fish-oil supplements,
