Managing Menstrual Migraines: A Simple Guide
For years, I used to write a few days off my calendar each month. It wasn’t for a vacation, but for the predictable, debilitating headache I knew was coming. If you also find your life interrupted by a migraine that seems to follow your menstrual cycle, you’re not just imagining the connection. These episodes are […]
Understanding the Role of Bioidentical Hormone Therapy in Menopause
The symptoms of menopause, during which women can feel physical and emotional discomfort, are often blamed entirely on declining levels of estrogen, but the hormone imbalance behind the symptoms is more complicated. In the years leading up to menopause, levels of progesterone drop faster and further than estrogen. The gap between the two is what […]
Veozah for Vasomotor Symptoms: A Non-hormonal Option
For most women going through menopause, vasomotor symptoms are not a footnote. Hot flashes and night sweats often interrupt sleep, derail meetings, and soak clothing. They persist on average seven to nine years, and in roughly a third of women, longer than ten. About eighty percent of women experience vasomotor symptoms during the menopausal transition. […]
What Women Should Know About Preventative Healthcare Today
For so many women, their own health takes a back seat – not because they ignore it, but rather because life is loud. Work, family, caregiving, aging parents, hormones, sleep, stress. Life is like a three-ring circus, and women are the jugglers, mistress of ceremonies, clowns, and sometimes, the performing seals, all at the same […]
Testosterone Therapy for Women Back in the Spotlight
Despite years of research and real-world use, there is still no FDA-approved testosterone therapy designed specifically for women. Now, that gap is getting renewed attention. Discussion around testosterone therapy for women has shifted in recent years, moving from the margins back into focus. More clinicians and patients are revisiting its potential role, particularly for postmenopausal […]
Metformin – a New Approach to Severe Morning Sickness
Hyperemesis gravidarum, or HG, is the medical name for severe morning sickness, and it can leave a pregnant woman unable to keep food or water down for weeks at a time. Metformin, a long-established diabetes medication, is now being studied as a way to prevent HG before pregnancy begins. Early findings have placed it among […]
Introducing Menopause Hormone Therapy
Menopause hormone therapy (MHT) is a new term for what used to be called hormone replacement therapy or HRT. If you’ve never heard about menopause hormone therapy, it’s worth remembering that the change of name from “hormone replacement therapy” is more of a paint job than any substantial change in the actual concept of treatment […]
Evenity Cover Has Been Denied? You Still Have Options
The old saying “the devil is in the detail” has never been more applicable than it is right now. Multiple patients are discovering that what they regarded as straightforward access to prescribed medication once a doctor had issued the script is being slowed down, and in some cases completely blocked – Evenity cover has been […]
Estrogen Patch Shortage? How to Get Yours
The stimulus for this article came from a cry for help from a person who had never before considered sourcing her medications from anything other than traditional “brick-and-mortar” local pharmacies, but was driven to desperation owing to her inability to obtain a product she had grown to depend on, due to persistent shortages of estrogen […]
The Hidden Effects of GLP-1 on Women
Until recently most of the talk about the new wave of medications based on GLP-1, such as Wegovy and Zepbound, centered on their positive results. They have demonstrated effectiveness in promoting weight loss in overweight and obese teenagers and adults in the general population. But there’s another side that’s getting the attention of women in […]
