{"id":3540,"date":"2023-06-27T19:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:48:09","slug":"expanding-choices-for-menopausal-therapy-mean-better-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Choices for Menopausal Therapy Mean Better Options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The approach to hormonal therapy used to be simplistic: estrogen lack being the primary reason for triggering menopause symptoms the theory was to just replace the treatment with estrogen hormone. And this is important because we know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/news\/2023\/06\/05\/oral-estrogen-therapy-for-menopause-may-increase-high-blood-pressure-risk\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/news\/2023\/06\/05\/oral-estrogen-therapy-for-menopause-may-increase-high-blood-pressure-risk\">losing estrogen increases disease risk including that of cardiovascular disease<\/a>. Now that we understand menopause better and know that many symptomatic women are not hormone candidates we have a massive list of options. Here is a simplistic list of your choices so that you can do your research before you come in to see us and review your options!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medication Therapy Options (Systemic Therapies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HRT\/HT: Hormone Replacement Therapy\/Hormone Therapy<ul><li>ERT: Estrogen Replacement Therapy<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>EPT: Estrogen and Progesterone Therapy<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>T: Testosterone Therapy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Topical Hormone Therapy (Prescription Therapy)<ul><li>Estrogen Patches<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Combination Estrogen and Progestogen Preparations<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Topical Estrogen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BRT: Bioidentical Hormone Therapy (ERT\/EPT\/T)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compounded Therapy<ul><li>Pellet Therapy available as Estrogen or Testosterone<\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Topical Therapy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSRI: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SNRI: Serotonin Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SERM: Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator which can mimic or block Estrogen Therapy\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Osphena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TSEC: Tissue Selective Estrogen Complex\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Duavee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NK3 Inhibitor\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Veozah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The approach to hormonal therapy used to be simplistic: estrogen lack being the primary reason for triggering menopause symptoms the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-menopause","tag-hormones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}