Dr Steven R. Goldstein, a Perimenopause Specialist NYC comments on the increasing use of HRT for Perimenopause. Is HRT good for Perimenopause? Simply giving traditional hormone replacement therapy such as estrogen patches and progesterone pills, or progesterone IUDs (as many nurse practitioners, physician assistants, women’s health internists who are new to this field are doing) may relieve hot flashes and night sweats, but can often exacerbate abnormalities in bleeding and does nothing for ot...
Dr Steven R. Goldstein is a Menopause Specialist in NYC. He is a Certified Menopause Practitioner, a past President of the International Menopause Society, and the author of several books on Menopause. Thirteen years ago, when I was president of NAMS (what was the North American Menopause Society, recently renamed The Menopause Society), if I were at a cocktail party speaking to a few women who found out I was a gynecologist, and I mentioned that I was president of the Menopause Society… It c...