Menopause Health Center
Treatment & Care
Menopause treatment can take a multi-pronged approach that includes diet changes, medication, and exercise. Learn about menopause treatment options and care here.
Treatment
Hormone replacement therapy was a widely recommended treatment for menopausal symptoms as well as in the prevention of osteoporosis and heart disease. What changed? What is hormone therapy? What types are available and what are their risks?
Options for perimenopause treatment are similar to those for menopause, including a healthy diet and exercise. Learn more from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This link takes you to its web site.
Hormone therapy is generally a safe way to manage menopausal symptoms and prevent osteoporosis, but it's not right for everyone. Is it right for you? This quiz may help you decide.
Is hormone replacement therapy making a comeback? Where Are We Now? What does recent research show? Learn this and more -- and why, with HRT, age may matter.
Get the facts you need with this overview of the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
Get answers to five common questions about hormone replacement therapy for symptoms of menopause.
What can you do about hot flashes and other menopause symptoms? Find out.
Can vitamin E help hot flashes? What do studies say about soy? Can herbs reduce the intensity of hot flashes? One expert offers her thoughts.
Supplements, herbs and botanicals like black cohosh, evening primrose oil, and flaxseed are thought to relieve menopausal symptoms. Are they safe? What are the warning signs a product may not be legitimate? Find out.
Many believe herbs can relieve some menopause symptoms. A review of hundreds of studies in English-language scientific literature, however, finds no evidence supporting alternative/complementary therapies. Where does this leave women who use these therapies?
Research shows that newly menopausal women who exercise get many benefits, including stronger bones and bodies, lower cholesterol, reduced insomnia, and fewer mood swings. Find out how much exercise did the trick, and more, in this article.
You may experience sleep problems as you go through menopause. How can you cope with symptoms so that you can get enough sleep? This article offers five simple solutions.
Care
As you go through menopause you can do much to stay healthy, feel better, reduce health risks from osteoporosis and heart disease, and maybe even ease hot flashes. Get the tips you need here.
When should you begin having mammograms? What health tests should you begin around the age of menopause? This simple checklist helps you plan.
Knowing how to talk to your doctor or other members of your health care team can help you get the information you need about menopause. Here are tips for talking with your doctor.
Get the most from your doctor's appointment with these tips on what to do before -- and during -- the appointment.
VIVELLE-DOT (estradiol transdermal system) IS AVAILABLE BY PRESCRIPTION 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.
ENABLEX is a prescription medicine used in adults to treat the following symptoms due to a condition called overactive bladder:
- · having a strong need to go to the bathroom right away (also called "urgency")
- · leaks or wetting accidents (also called "urinary incontinence")
- · having to go to the bathroom too often (also called "urinary frequency")
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
You should not take once-daily ENABLEX if you have certain types of stomach problems, glaucoma, or have trouble emptying your bladder. Side effects of ENBLEX include blurred vision, and more commonly dry mouth, constipation, indigestion, and abdominal pain. Use caution when doing certain activities until you know how ENBALEX affects you.
A generation ago, no one talked about menopause. Today it's openly discussed. But some common menopause myths persist.
