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Re: Depo and menopause From: Efrain Ramirez MD (eramirez@icepr.com) Wed Feb 17 13:21:19 1999 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Malcolm Griffiths: "Re: Medico-legal advisors" Previous message: Antonio Valdez: "Re: Rezulin/pregnancy" In reply to: Robert J Woolley: "Depo and menopause" Next in thread: Robert J Woolley: "Re: Depo and menopause" Reply: Robert J Woolley: "Re: Depo and menopause" I always have handy Contraceptive Technology By Hatcher et. al.. Agree with Jim..IUD..great option. Dan is right. HRT is a good choice. I start most of my patients at 50 mostly when they are on Oc's. Good luck At Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Robert J Woolley wrote: > >I have a 47-year-old patient who has not been sexually active in many >years, but is about to become so again. She consluts me about >contraception. Does not want barrier methods unless nothing else >available. She smokes, so combined OCs are contraindicated. She has never >been able to take pills faithfully, so progestin-only pills worry me. She >doesn't want Norplant because she thinks she's close enough to menopause >that she doesn't need what she calls "a 5-year solution." > >She is most interested in Depo-Provera. However, she also wants to be able >to tell when she enters menopause so that she can start taking estrogen >replacement. > >1) Will Depo suppress the normal symptoms of menopause? (Hot flashes, >vaginal dryness, etc.; obviously it will tend to make her amenorrheic.) > >2) Will Depo suppress the elevated level of FSH if we were to screen her >periodically (every 6-12 months) for menopause even in the absence of >symptoms? -- Efrain Ramirez MD FACOG "The things you learn after you know everything are the important ones" Next message: Malcolm Griffiths: "Re: Medico-legal advisors" Previous message: Antonio Valdez: "Re: Rezulin/pregnancy" In reply to: Robert J Woolley: "Depo and menopause" Next in thread: Robert J Woolley: "Re: Depo and menopause" Reply: Robert J Woolley: "Re: Depo and menopause"

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