Menopause may be a challenging period for a woman because it comes with a lot of uncomfortable symptoms. However, New York menopause treatments can relieve the symptoms you experience during menopause. You will likely experience hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, and night sweating. Several treatment approaches address the decreased hormonal levels since your body cannot produce sufficient hormones. Treatments may depend on the presence of the uterus. Here are a few treatment options you can seek to relieve your symptoms.
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Menopause usually leads to low production levels of estrogen and progesterone, which may therefore cause discomforting symptoms like hot flashes, night sweating, and insomnia. Hormone therapy includes two different procedures. The first HT option may be estrogen therapy, where your doctor prescribes a low estrogen dose you take daily. The treatment may come from a cream, gel, spray, or vaginal ring. Your second HT option may be combination therapy which uses estrogen and progesterone to treat your menopause symptoms. You might not require progesterone if you had a hysterectomy to lower the side effects of the hormone replacement therapy. However, you are likely to experience monthly bleeding, irregular spotting, and mood swings as side effects of the therapy. You can keep taking your medications because most side effects are mild.
Vaginal Estrogen
Estrogen helps maintain your female organs, but during menopause, their levels drop, leading to discomfort in the vagina. You may develop vaginal dryness, inflammation, urinary incontinence, and pain during sexual intercourse. Your doctor may recommend low doses of estrogen treatment in the form of creams, rings, and tablets, which your vagina absorbs. After absorption, you can get relief from vaginal dryness and painful sexual intercourse and eliminate urinary incontinence.
Kegel Exercises
Menopause may introduce a weak pelvic floor that supports your pelvic organs, thus causing symptoms that may include incontinence, prolapses, and intimacy issues. Your doctor can recommend Kegel exercises to help strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, allowing you to have bladder control. Kegel exercises can also help relax your vaginal muscles by improving circulation and boosting lubrication and arousal. Thus, you may have reduced pain during sexual intercourse. Your doctor will recommend how to perform the exercises correctly to achieve results.
Alternative Treatments
Your doctor may recommend non-estrogen creams to help with pain during sex at menopause. You may also get dieting tips that can help during menopause. You can consume foods rich in plant estrogens to ease hot flashes, such as soy nuts, flaxseed oil, and fennel. You can also increase your calcium intake while maintaining a regular exercise schedule to lower the risk of osteoporosis. Prozac® medication can improve the symptoms of hot flashes but may cause side effects like nausea and insomnia. You may have to avoid this medication if you are using Tamoxifen.
You can get all the relevant information about how to eliminate the symptoms of menopause at Inga Zilberstein, MD. You can discuss with your doctor your treatment options, the benefits, and the risks of every treatment. The medical team will help you settle on the most effective option that suits whatever symptom you may be experiencing. Request your online appointment today.
