WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for November, 2002: Re: do you have to have hormone therapy after a hysterectomy? please answer...

Re: do you have to have hormone therapy after a hysterectomy? please answer...

From: BJ (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:28:29 -0600 (CST)

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In reply to: heather: "do you have to have hormone therapy after a hysterectomy? please answer..."

Heather, Dr. John Lee has written an excellent book on menopause that will answer all your questions (and some you didn't even know you had!). His website is http://www.johnleemd.com and his books are also available in many health food and book stores. You are correct about the "allergy" situation but the catch is that many of the hormones used in HRT are synthetic and not natural to the body so she could very well have a reaction to them. However, there are natural hormones available.

At Mon, 4 Nov 2002, heather wrote: >
>my mother had a hysterectomy aprx. 8 years ago. but they left an ovary
>(partial hysterectomy?) shouldn't she be taking some kind of hormones?
>she says she can't because she is alergic to them. but when i asked her
>how she could be allergic to something her body was already making she
>told me to sut up because i didn't know what i was talking about. if
>she started taking hormones would she not have so many mood swings? or
>would they get worse? or since she has an ovary still does that mean she
>is fine and doesn't need to take anything? (and can they only leave just
>an ovary? wouldn't that mean they'd have to leave other things too? i
>mean, you can't just have an ovary floating around)

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