These days, women have many treatment options available.
Have you seen the cartoon of the woman standing against a wall holding a shotgun that's captioned: "Hand me my HRT and nobody gets hurt"? Fact is, menopause is anything but comical -- just ask women who have experienced debilitating, life-altering side effects and found relief only in doctor-prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Ongoing research has produced conflicting reports about the benefits and risks associated with the use of HRT, but if you're more interested in quality of life than down-the-road possibilities, this article will help you find online sites offering pharmaceutical, herbal and other therapeutic options.
Instructions
1. Visit your health-care provider's website to fill your hormone replacement therapy prescriptions. Insurance health plans usually offer the advantage of ordering 90-day supplies of your Prempro, Premarin and other HRT delivery systems in the form of patches, oral medications and creams. Some offer free shipping. All save you from making frequent drugstore runs.
2. Choose from the many bio-identical hormone therapies earning rave reviews from celebrities. Bio-identicals don't require prescriptions and a variety of companies produce bHRT (or bio-HRT) compounds sold as transdermals and patches that relieve post-menopausal symptoms. Most are compounds of progesterone and phytoestrogen. Find information about bio-identicals at: http://www.womentowomen.com/bioidentical-hrt/default.aspx?id=1&campaignno=getoffhrt&adgroup=ag1hrt&keywords=hrt+medicine. Satisfy your curiosity by comparing products offered on this site to other suppliers of bio-HRT on the Internet and learn more about this controversial way to fight menopause symptoms by visiting http://www.PatientsMedical.com/NewYork.
3. Order herbal HRT therapies and vitamins via online sources. While reviews have been mixed, black cohosh, dong quai, soy isoflavones, red clover, vitamin B complex, vitamins C, D and E and other herbals provide the safe relief women seek as alternatives to prescribed drugs. That stated, the FTC has come down hard on companies like Herbs Nutrition--citing them for false advertising claims--so keep your expectations in check and remember that herbals don't work for all women. Find more details about these natural therapies at http://www.safemenopausesolutions.com/menopause-vitamins.html and http://www.annecollins.com/best-vitamins-for-menopause.htm.
4. Head for Canadian cyberspace. Ordering your medication from a supplier north of the border offers convenience, and there have been relatively few complaints about the quality of the HRT medicines originating there. Many sites will offer you a complete variety of options, from those requiring prescriptions to vitamins and bio-identicals. Check out these websites to compare prices and delivery options: http://www.CanadaDrugCenter.com, http://www.CanadianPharmacyMeds.com and www.77canadapharmacy.com/buy/Fem_Hrt.php.
5. Use caution if you're tempted to purchase your HRT medicines from international sources. If you have a friend or relative living overseas who has investigated the quality of formulations being produced in countries other than the U.S., and you're able to save money by ordering from that country's pharmaceutical outlets, that's a judgment call you'll have to make. Sites like http://www.pharmacysources.net/pharmacy-resources/ and http://www.kirknews.com/ list pharmacological resources from countries like England, Switzerland and The Netherlands. That stated, steer clear of companies making claims that, while tempting, sound too good to be true. You've got enough to worry about as you seek to find ways to relieve your menopausal symptoms and get on with your life.
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