Expert to lecture on alternative remedies for menopause
Posted by Rose in General, tags: health newsVia: islandpacket.com
Diana McCoy never knew misery until she experienced night sweats, one of the dreaded symptoms of menopause.“I’d wake up in the middle of the night wet with sweat,” said McCoy, who began “the change” at age 51. “It got so bad, I wasn’t sleeping three hours straight. The more sleep I lost, the more stressed I became, which led to more night sweats. It just spiraled until I couldn’t stand it anymore.”
Desperate for relief, she went to see her primary physician, Heather Hutchings, a doctor of osteopathic medicine specializing in women’s health issues. Rather than prescribing hormone replacement therapy, a controversial treatment now believed to increase the risk of breast cancer, blood clots, stroke and heart disease, Hutchings suggested McCoy change her diet, exercise, take an herbal sleep aid and relax.
“A lot of women will suffer through menopause because they’ve heard so many negative things about hormone replacement therapy,” said Hutchings, of Beaufort Memorial Coastal Primary Care in Hardeeville. “They don’t realize there are other options.”
Menopause causes such severe problems for so many women in the Lowcountry, Beaufort Memorial Hospital is bringing an expert from Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Tracy Gaudet, to town to discuss the most successful alternative remedies being used by women today.
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