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Low dose birth control pills (BCPs) like Alesse, EstraStep,
and Loestrin can effectively minimize perimenopause symptoms like hot flashes, irritability, mood swings and help with sleeping troubles, for many women.
BCPs work to decrease perimenopausal symptoms by stopping or suppressing the body's
monthly ovulation. This stops our ovaries from making estrogen and progesterone.
There is a whole new group of BCPs like Loestrin that were created especially for women
over 35 years of age. Not only do they function to help with the often disruptive
symptoms of perimenopause, they work as an effective means of birth control. They
contain just enough estrogen and progesterone to prevent pregnancies and help with
perimenopause.
Today's BCPs contain a lot less estrogen and progesterone than those in the 70s and 80s.
When using BCPs all the estrogen and progesterone we receive will be from the pill.
This gives you a steady and stable amount of progesterone and estrogen every
day- instead of the peaks and valleys that our bodies make during perimenopause.
It's these peaks and valleys of estrogen and progesterone from our ovaries that cause the
flashes, trouble sleeping irritability etc...
BCPs are different from HRT (hormone replacement
therapy) like Prempro because the BCPs contain enough estrogen and progesterone to
suppress or stop ovulation, whereas HRT does not, it works differently and is not a form
of birth control.
Using BCPs to help control hot flashes, menstrual irregularities, mood swings etc... is
known as suppressive therapy as
opposed to HRT which is to replace hormones that
are either "lost" or need to be increased.
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HotFlash! FAQ: I can't sleep!!!!
Sleep disturbances and perimenopause
Sleeping disturbances are extraordinarily common during perimenopause. Studies
have shown that women over the age of forty have more sleep troubles than their younger
counterparts. Look at the television commercial for sleeping aides. They are geared
towards women who are thirty five years old and beyond.
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HotFlash FAQ:
HotFlashes and Breast
Cancer
What if you
can't take estrogen?
 
For women with breast cancer with hotflashes, taking estrogen
is not an acceptable form of therapy, because it can make the cancer worse. Loprinzi has
found Effexor to be the best non-hormonal therapy for women with hot flashes and breast
cancer. Not only did the participants in the study have less flashes, but they also
had a better sense of well-being and sleep better.
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Meet the author
Linda Ojeda, Ph.D
"Her Healthy
Heart" &
"Menopause Without Medicine"
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Alcohol: The Double Edged Sword
 In her latest book, Her Healthy
Heart, Linda again is in front of the health pack. She rings the warning bell for
all women to wake up and recognize that heart disease is as big a problem for women as it
is for men.  Not
only do women have a six times greater chance of dying from heart disease when compared
with deaths from breast cancer, women are often misdiagnosed and do not
receive the proper heart care. Her Healthy Heart is filled with practical and useful ways
for women to keep their hearts healthy and prevent heart disease. She also provides
natural ways to prevent and reverse heart disease. |
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