Sometimes HRT Helps a Symptom You Weren’t Even Trying to Treat

Sometimes the reason you start hormone therapy isn’t the reason you decide to stay on it. Progesterone may help with anxiety, while estrogen may help with depression, and sometimes the only way to know whether hormone therapy will help a symptom is to carefully try it with your clinician. One patient started hormone therapy hoping it would improve her joint pain. It didn’t. But her sleep improved significantly, and so did her skin, which ended up being enough of a benefit for her to continue treatment. Hormone therapy can affect people in different ways,… Video by YouTube channel.