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Living Through Menopause: A Menopause Support Group
If you're dealing with night sweats, hot flashes, and mood swings, you need comfort and advice for surviving those menopausal years. Find it on this message board from women who know just what you're going through.
Living Through Menopause: A Menopause Support Group
Message Board: Bone Health and Osteoporosis
Menopause can increase your risk of osteoporosis. Often called the "silent thief," osteoporosis steals bone material as you age. Join in and share your experience on how to cope with osteoporosis using diet, medication, supplements, and exercise.
Message Board: Sex Matters®: Louanne Cole Weston, PhD
As your enter menopause, your sexual responses may change. Weston is a licensed, board- certified sex therapist and can answer your questions on sex and menopause and relationship issues.
Sex Matters®: Louanne Cole Weston, PhD
Message Board: GYN Issues With Jane Harrison-Hohner, RN, RNP
A woman's body is complicated and full of surprises. Get the answers you need from Jane Harrison-Hohner, RN, and the members of this message board.
GYN Issues: Jane Harrison-Hohner, RN, RNP
Message Board: Menopause With Joan Starker, MSW, PhD
Hot flashes? Night sweats? Memory lapses? Menopause expert Joan Starker, MSW, PhD, shared her knowledge about the onset and treatment of menopause. Is your menopause question in the archives?
Menopause: Joan Starker, MSW, PhD
Message Board: Friends Talking About Sexuality
Straight talk about sex with real answers in a safe, friendly environment. Join in and find the support you need.
Blog: Sex Matters® With Louanne Cole-Weston, PhD
On this blog Louanne Cole-Weston, PHD shares information and advice on men's and women's sexual health issues from masturbation to erectile dysfunction.
Blog: Sexual Health: Sex Matters®
WebMD Medical Reference
Menopause Guide
VIVELLE-DOT (estradiol transdermal system) IS AVAILABLE BY PRESCRPTION ONLY.
INDICATION
Vivelle-Dot is used after menopause to: reduce moderate to severe hot flashes; treat moderate to severe dryness, itching and burning in or around the vagina; help reduce your chances of getting osteoporosis (thin weak bones); and treat certain conditions in which a young woman's ovaries do not produce enough estrogens naturally. Vivelle-Dot 0.025 mg/day is only used to prevent osteoporosis from menopause. If you use Vivelle-Dot only to treat your dryness, itching, and burning in and around your vagina or if you use Vivelle-Dot only to prevent osteoporosis from menopause, talk with your healthcare professional about whether a different treatment or medicine without estrogens might be better for you.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Estrogens increase the chances of getting cancer of the uterus (womb). Report any unusual vaginal bleeding right away while you are taking estrogens. Vaginal bleeding after menopause may be a warning sign of cancer of the uterus (womb).
Do not use estrogens with or without progestins to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, or strokes. Using estrogens with or without progestins may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and blood clots. Using estrogens with progestins may increase your risk of dementia (decline in memory and thinking skills).
Vivelle-Dot should not be used if you have unusual vaginal bleeding; currently have or have had certain cancers, including cancer of the breast or uterus; had a stroke or heart attack in the recent past (for example, in the past year); currently have or have had blood clots; currently have or have had liver problems; or think you may be, or know that you are, pregnant.
The most common side effects that may occur with Vivelle-Dot are headache, breast tenderness, and back pain.
You and your healthcare professional should talk regularly about whether you still need treatment with Vivelle-Dot.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Full Prescribing Information for Vivelle-Dot.
Ob-Gyn Laura Corio talks about the importance of exercise during menopause.
