Her Body Hormone Therapy Revisited
For the majority of these women, hot flashes are an inconvenience and nothing more. But about 10 to 15 percent of women have severe hot flashes so frequently that they have trouble sleeping at night and making it through the day without a shower and a change of clothes. Until a few years ago, the most widely prescribed remedy for hot flashes was estrogen. However, in 2002, a huge federally funded study called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) found that women taking a combination of estrogen and progesterone had a higher risk of heart disease and breast cancer....