Who can benefit from estrogen treatment?

Estrogen is a hormone that’s naturally produced by your body. It’s found in both men and women. Estrogen plays an important role in managing your reproductive system, but it also protects your bones and helps your skin heal from bruises and injury.

Sometimes, your body doesn’t make enough estrogen. This can happen for various reasons. For example, your estrogen production slows down as you get older. Some conditions can also affect your estrogen levels.

If your estrogen levels are low, your doctor may prescribe hormone therapy to help replace your estrogen levels and ease symptoms. Some research suggests that long-term hormone therapy use may increase your risk for complications, however, including severe ones like cancer. Talk with Estrogen Therapy Clinic doctors about this before you begin using hormone therapy.

1.Relieves menopause symptoms

Your natural estrogen production changes over time. As you begin puberty, you will create more estrogen. You’ll continue to have higher levels through your childbearing years. As menopause approaches, your estrogen levels will begin falling.

As estrogen levels fall, you will start having symptoms of menopause. Most commonly, these symptoms include:

• hot flashes
• vaginal dryness
• chills
• difficulty sleeping
• excessive sweating

For menopause, many doctors will prescribe an estrogen-containing medication. Replacing the declining estrogen with hormone therapy may help ease menopause symptoms.

2.Improves vaginal issues

Estrogen can help maintain vaginal health. When estrogen levels decline, you may experience changes to the tissue, lining, and pH balance of your vagina. That can cause several vaginal health issues, including:

• Vaginal dryness
• vulvar atrophy, a condition that causes dryness, soreness, and urinary incontinence
• atrophic vaginitis, or inflammation of vaginal tissues that are frequently caused by dryness and irritation

Estrogen may be able to help treat these conditions.

3.Helps ovary issues

The ovaries are responsible for producing estrogen. If they fail to produce the hormone or if they are affected by any other condition, hormone therapy may be necessary.

These issues may require supplemental estrogen:

• female hypogonadism, or decreased function of the ovaries
• failure of both ovaries
• removal of both ovaries, or an oophorectomy

If you’ve had your ovaries removed, hormone therapy may be used to help ease symptoms of premature menopause. Sometimes, both the uterus and ovaries are removed. This is called a total hysterectomy.

4.Protects your bones

Estrogen may help decrease bone loss after menopause. However, new medications are better able to stop and reverse bone loss, so most doctors rely on those now. Those medications aren’t always effective or their side effects may be too severe. In those cases, your doctor may recommend using estrogen to treat bone loss or osteoporosis.

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