WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for July, 2001: Re: ORTHO-EST

Re: ORTHO-EST

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:58:36 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: Marlene: "ORTHO-EST"

At Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Marlene wrote: >
>Can you assist?
>The Doctor has just prescribed Ortho-est without really going into my medical history and on one of the pages I read this drug has many side effects.
>Starting at the age of 27 till now at the age of fifty I have had gall bladder, deuidenal (sorry spelling, its late at night) ulcer and hiatus hernia repaired (one Operation) Hysterectomy two years later. Then a colonectomy (large colon removed) Then.... out came the ovaries (thought there was a cancerous tumour but decided it wasn't then.... last year phylo plastic repair work to the kidney.... and now the doctor wants to give me orthi-est. Not my regular doctor as I moved towns.... do you think I should take hormone replacement under the circumstances and if so it sounds as if this drug could cause more damage to what I have left then anything .......Can't afford to loosse any more organs!!!! Heeelllp.......
>
>Please reply to MarleneAirey@handling.co.za

Most women who have their uterus and ovaries removed should be started on estrogen in the recovery room. If a woman's uterus is gone she has no need for the progestin. Ortho-est contains both estrogen and a progestin (it is a birth control pill) With no uterus, estrogen alone is the only thing needed to prevent bone loss and hot flushes. It also prevents vaginal dryness. Package inserts list everything that a pill might do. The one for aspirin(if there were one) would be a lot worse than that one.

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