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Menopause
Answers and options after your periods stop
Hot flashes, broken sleep, weight gain, and a libido are common. You don’t have to struggle. There are more options than a single prescription, and we will walk you through all of them.
Does this sound familiar?
Menopause is often the moment women realize they cannot take their health for granted. If several of these are true for you, you are in the right place.
- Hot flashes, sometimes followed by chills
- Night sweats that wake you up
- Exhausted by the end of the day and dreading the morning
- Weight gain, even though nothing else has changed
- Brain fog
- Low libido
- Joint pain and stiffness
- Low energy
- A sense of losing control over your own body
- Irritability or anxiety that feels new
What is actually happening
As the ovaries mature, the effects are widespread throughout all body systems. Fluctuating hormone levels contribute to joint pain, brain fog, poor sleep, low libido, sexual pain, weight gain in addition to hot flashes and night sweats.
Many women have spent years putting everyone else first. Menopause is a natural moment to practice radical self care. This is the time to take up space for yourself – nutrition, stress management, restorative sleep, resistance training are imperative. nutrition, stress management, restorative sleep, and smart exercise all matter here. Hormone replacement therapy is another critical part of the picture. Our job is to look at the whole person and build systems to promote your wellbeing now and in the future.
How we treat menopause
Many women avoid hormone therapy because of what they have heard about cancer risk, and many have been given information that is incorrect or out of date. We start by finding out what is actually true for your body.
A detailed history
Your first visit is 60 minutes. We go through your symptoms, your history, what you have been told about hormones, and what you have already tried.
A personalized safety assessment
Both conventional and functional medicine testing shows how your body metabolizes hormones, and GI testing shows how efficiently you clear estrogen. Together they give you a personalized picture of hormone safety, not a guess.
Your options, hormonal or not
Bioidentical hormones and non-hormonal options are our first step when combined with a plan built on herbs and an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, balanced blood sugar, balanced stress levels, and movement.
Related concerns
The concerns we most often treat alongside menopause. One first visit covers all of them.
“HRT has been life changing. I didn’t realize how much irritability I was dealing with until it was gone. No hangriness, anxiety, edginess. All gone! No blues so far. Or night sweats! I’m so very thankful to Dr. Watson for her approach and care.”
Hormone Wellness MD patient
Keep learning
Two places to start if you want to understand your options before your first visit.
Ready to find out what is going on?
If this sounds like you, we would like to help.