From CANFP
Non-Hormonal Ways of Treating Hot Flashes
By Dr. Davenport
Jan 11, 2008, 20:41
Question
I have been on the birth control pill for 22 years and I had to stop it because the MRI showed there was a spot on my liver. They were thinking that the hormones may be related to this. I also have a history of endometriosis.
Can you please give me some ideas for controlling the hot flashes that I am getting since I stopped taking the pill, other than hormones?
Sherri
Answer
Dear Sherri,
Non-hormonal ways of helping hot flashes include Vitamin E, the herb black cohosh, and anti-depressant medications such as Paxil or Prozac. If after further investigation the spot on your liver is not a hormonally related tumor, you could consider bioidentical hormone replacement with estradiol and progesterone, which replaces what your body is missing, instead of the high-dose synthetic hormones in birth control pills.
Mary. Davenport, M.D.
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