Dreaming Of A Good Night’s Sleep?
Getting a good night’s sleep may just be a dream for many menopausal women. Studies indicate that, along with hot flashes, mood swings, migraine headaches, trouble sleeping is another, unpleasant side effect of menopause. Approximately… Read More »
Menopausal Migraines Are Real
For years, my patients going through menopause have complained of migraine headaches. But for some reason, research has never been able to back up what I’ve known for years, and what women have been experiencing… Read More »
Get Your Sex Life BuzzingVibrators are often the punch line of the joke; the gag gift at the bridal shower or the cause of an embarrassing situation in a sitcom. But, the reality is, personal massagers are no joke…. Read More »
The sitcom of menopauseIt may not seem like the stuff of sitcoms when it’s happening to you, but my sister pointed out to me the other day that menopause was the theme of a recent CBS show called… Read More »
Pulling back the curtain on BHTThanks to recent published reports, specifically one entitled “The Hormone Hoax Thousands Fall For” in the October 2013 issue of More, assumptions about the safety of bio-identical hormone therapy (BHT) are again being called into… Read More »
HRT BouncebackEleven years after frightening findings in the Women’s Health Initiative caused so many women to abandon hormone therapy, medical practitioners continue to find benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for a wide variety of patients…. Read More »
The Truth about TestosteroneThe use of testosterone as a form of hormone replacement for women emerges from time to time in the mainstream media as a little used, but effective therapy and it’s important to understand the many… Read More »
Roadmap to Sexual ResponseScientists have recently discovered a distinctive blood flow pattern in the brains of premenopausal women who are not interested in sex and unhappy about that. This distinctive pattern differs from that of women who have… Read More »
Early menopauseNew study links early menopause with heart disease and stroke A study of more than 2,500 women ages 45 to 84 reported that those who experienced early menopause — either naturally or from surgical removal… Read More »
Menopause Physicians – Why So Few and Far Between?
These days, it seems like hormone “treatment centers” are popping up all over the place, and online “pharmacies” are constantly pushing the latest and greatest hormones for menopausal and postmenopausal women. But what about the… Read More »