Can menopause be cured?

Can menopause be cured? Women approach or enter menopause after the age of 45, and some women have even reached menopause. Menopause is an inevitable physiological process for women, but after menopause, the body will experience a series of uncomfortable symptoms, including sweating, hot flashes, emotional instability, sleep disorders, low libido, and sexual intercourse disorders, which affect the quality of work and life. In addition, there is atrophy of the urogenital organs, susceptibility to inflammatory diseases such as vaginitis and urethritis, and organic diseases such as frequent urination, urinary incontinence, and uterine prolapse. After menopause, people enter an old age state.

Why do women have a distinct menopausal stage? This is related to our ovaries. The ovaries are an important reproductive organ for women. At the same time, they are also an endocrine organ like our thyroid gland, pituitary gland, and adrenal gland, responsible for secreting female hormones. But it is different from other endocrine glands: the functions of other endocrine glands end with the end of life (except for certain endocrine diseases). Once these organs are abnormal, they must be treated, otherwise it will seriously affect people's life and health. However, the ovaries have no function after menopause. No matter how long the whole life is, it will no longer work. This is the case for everyone. It is a normal phenomenon, not pathological, and no treatment is required. When the ovaries begin to stop working, a series of subjective symptoms appear in the process of estrogen level decline. When estrogen drops to the level after menopause and remains at a low level, the symptoms will disappear.

Due to the improvement of living standards and medical care, people's life expectancy has been extended a lot. People aged 70 are no longer considered very old, and it is not uncommon to live to 80 or 90. We not only want to live longer, but also want to live better and stay young forever. Therefore, hormone replacement therapy has appeared since the 1950s and 1960s, and estrogen supplementation therapy has been started after menopause.

Hormone therapy has gone through half a century. It was once sought after, but also experienced many disputes and caused panic. Its name has also changed several times: estrogen replacement therapy, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy. At the beginning, it was believed that all menopausal symptoms were caused by estrogen deficiency, so it was simply supplemented with estrogen, so it was called estrogen replacement therapy. Later, it was discovered that the use of estrogen alone had many complications: it might cause endometrial diseases, and estrogen plus progesterone treatment began to be given, so it was renamed hormone replacement therapy. Later, the use of hormones was not only applied after menopause. When entering menopause and subjective symptoms appear, treatment can be carried out. Hormone therapy is not only used for supplementation or replacement after hormones are reduced to very low levels. When symptoms appear before menopause or menstrual disorders occur, hormone therapy is collectively referred to as hormone therapy.

Women who have entered menopause should not blindly follow the trend of hormone replacement therapy, nor should they be afraid of hormone therapy. Under the guidance of a doctor and with regular physical examinations, necessary hormone therapy will significantly improve the quality of life.