Yes! This is a question that many of us will have to ponder when confronted with some of the affects of menopause, whether that be hot-flashes, moodiness or anxiety attacks.
Many women go on some type of hormone therapy to help them to cope with their Physical and emotional situation. These take on many forms, pills, patches, creams and more! You will quickly discover that not everything works for everybody! You will have to pick and choose what you are willing to experiment with, or not!
Doctors, friends and acquaintances, will all be well meaning as they bombard you with remedies, cures, potions and the, “This is the best thing EVER”! To relieve you of your new found symptoms. Do your homework on anything you are thinking about trying, there are side effects and risks involved with many these meds. Other women may veer more toward the natural or homeopathic, but as with everything else, I stress again, what may work for one person, may not work for you. Example, when I first started having my anxiety attacks, someone I knew recommended that I use this estrogen cream, all you had to do was rub some on your inner arms and breast, OMG! That stuff made me so wacky! Needless to say, I had to stop using it after a couple of weeks. Wasn’t for me. Fast forward about 10 years later. I’m deep into dealing with these (thinking face) who left me out here in the middle of the desert, hot-flashes! One of my friends was on estrogen and it worked very well for her, not only that! But I had a few clients that were on the estrogen patch, they too sang praises on how if it weren’t for that patch! They didn’t know what they would do! They said it saved them, and their families from the ugly person they had become due to the hormonal imbalance caused by the menopause. And to top it all off, my new doctor recomended the low dose estrogen pill for me too, he said, “Whats the harm in trying it? it could be the very thing you need to help you.” So here is yet another person telling me about this stuff! And after ten years of suffering with menopausal symptoms, I gave in to trying estrogen. I was on it for three weeks before I had to come off, it was HORRIBLE for me! I had all kinds of crazy side affects! light headedness, a constant dull headache and pain in my lower legs that would bother me in my sleep, and while sitting down, it was not nice! Unbelievable! I was really hoping for the best (sad face) I was never really a western medicine type person, I kind of lean more toward the natural, but that’s just me! Doesn’t make the other stuff wrong for someone else, just not right for me. So the ball is in your court, Pill, Patch, Cream or Nothing?