Just call me Madame Ovary
Removing the ovaries (oophorectomy) guarantees immediate acute menopause and lifelong hormone replacement therapy. Usually when you surgically enter menopause the adjustment is much harsher on the body than going into it "naturally".
Hormone replacement therapy
Perimenopause is the time around menopause when a woman's body adjusts from normal ovulation to menopause. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can help reduce or eliminate the symptoms and long-term effects of perimenopause and menopause
Using the Patch in Hormone Replacement Therapy
The skin patch used in hormone replacement therapy produces hormones that are identical to those produced by the ovaries. During menopause, the ovaries stop working and so the levels of these hormones start to decrease.
Pituitary hormone in menopause under study
Regulating a hormone abundant in women approaching menopause could offer alternatives for hormone replacement therapy, Medical College of Georgia researchers say
Relief From Menopause Hell
It was depressing and all, but the menopause symptoms were sudden and severe. They were worse than anything I could have imagined. I went from doctor to doctor, and finally one gave me hormone replacement therapy with prescription
Menopause and hormone replacement therapy: what is the future?
Patel, Babu S. and Munshi, Atul P. (2006) Menopause and hormone replacement therapy: what is the future? JK Science, Journal of Medical Education and Research, 8 (1). pp. 57-59. ISSN 0972-1177
Pituitary Hormone In Menopause Under Study
Regulating a hormone abundant in women approaching menopause could offer alternatives for hormone replacement therapy, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Follicle-stimulating hormone, released by the pituitary gland,
Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy press release
In four years, 50 million American women will be in menopause. The federal government's decision in 2002 to suspend the use of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in a large scale clinic trial of the effects of HRT,
What are the risk factors or causes of uterine fibroid tumors?
Fibroids are expected to shrink after menopause, but hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may prevent this shrinkage and may even stimulate growth. More studies with mixed results. Use of HRT may increase your risk. Xenoestrogens
Menopause and perimenopause
Hormone replacement therapy: Your doctor may recommend hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to help reduce or eliminate the symptoms and long-term effects of perimenopause and menopause by restoring certain hormones to premenopausal levels

Menopause Online
Traditional | Alternative. TRADITIONAL TREATMENTS Hormone Replacement therapy ( HRT ). HERBS Herbs can help some of the symptoms of menopause.
Hormone replacement therapy: Benefits and alternatives
You might be wondering how this shift in opinion over hormone replacement therapy, also known as hormone therapy for menopause, affects you personally.
Menopause - Hormone Replacement Therapy
Companion website for the Quantum ABC TV special on menopause.
Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Information - National Institutes
Chemoprevention for Hormone Replacement Therapy — U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Information Page on Menopause — Office of Research on Women's Health
MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is medication containing one or more female HRT is most often used to treat symptoms of menopause such as "hot flashes