Perimenopause Hormone Therapy: What Women Need to Know About HRT, Progesterone & Estrogen
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Perimenopause Hormone Therapy: What Women Need to Know About HRT, Progesterone & Estrogen

C1AdvancedSeptember 1, 202643 min

Perimenopause hormones can make you feel like your body changed overnight—even when your labs look “normal,” and in this AMA Dr. Jolene Brighten answers your biggest questions about estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, HRT, birth control, Mirena, ovulation, POI, and postmenopause. View the complete show notes, references, and resources at https://drbrighten.com/podcasts/perimenopause-hormones/ 📖 PREORDER ADHD AND WOMEN: https://drbrighten.com/adhdandwomen What You’ll Learn in This Episode 🧪 Why “normal” hormone labs don’t necessarily explain how you feel during perimenopause 😤 What symptoms like rage, anxiety, poor sleep, and irritability may tell you about prog...

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If you don't want to get pregnant and we certainly don't want to just come off of it and be like

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What the hell are we doing to women's brains long term when they put them on that? If you don't want to get pregnant and we certainly don't want to just come off of it and be like are you ovulating? Are you not ovulating? Like we want to have a backup plan for that? Someone will lose their minds with progestin. So it's all about what's true for the individual.

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So many of my patients, they no longer have the threat of unintended pregnancy and they literally say I no longer have a fear of getting pregnant so now I'm actually in the mood. So much more. is so much more enjoyable. Do you need to prepare or stabilize your hormones

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before removal? Well, at 48 now. What should women know about post-menopause that we don't talk about enough?

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