Your symptoms of menopause will be relieved such as dryness, sleep disorders and mood swings. You can stay in touch with your doctor regarding adjusting your hormonal treatment.
Yes, Vivelle is an estrogen replacement. Estrogen is a sex steroid hormone.
Place it on the buttocks areas, or the abdomen, not the breasts or waist.
Estrogen doesn't cause breast cancer but certainly estrogen can be linked to breast cancer. This is why hormonal birth control such as the combination pill is strongly linked to breast cancer.
My OB/GYN told me that it was fine to cut the patch to get half of the dose and it seems to be working well, since on the full .025 I had gained 5 lbs in just 2 weeks. Hot flashes are still being minimized with the half patch so far.
if you hit a patch of ice and you go sliding across all four lanes of traffic, its not working.
estrogen
The birth control patch works by being placed on a fleshy part of the body and estrogen from the patch will be absorbed into the skin. Possible side effects are blood clots and strokes.
I would assume it's because you need estrogen. With Ortho Vera you are about 60% more exposed to estrogen then being on the pill. However, you should ask your doctor?
When you're on the birth control patch, the patch provides a constant level of progestin and estrogen. When those hormone levels drop, withdrawal bleeding occurs. That's why you bleed during your pill-free week, and why you may bleed if you have a patch fall off.
Combined hormonal birth control methods -- those that contain estrogen -- include the regular birth control pill (but not the minipill or progestin-only pill), the ring, and the patch.
Estrogen occurs naturally in the human body. There are man-made versions of estrogen such as BPA, which has been know to cause prostate cancer.
Yes you need a patch because if you don't you will not get hardware