Despite the facts, testosterone replacement for women continues to be misunderstood. It is time for all women to understand their options when it comes to seizing control of their quality of life.
In the 1980s and 1990s the number one prescription medication in the United States was the estrogen-based menopausal treatment, Premarin. For decades, women with symptoms of menopause found improved quality of life with hormone replacement.
In 2002, everything changed. A specific drug called Prempro—a combination of a synthetic estrogen and a synthetic progestin—was found to cause an increased risk of breast cancer in women taking it over long periods of time. The result of these findings was widespread reduction of the use of hormone replacement, and the common—but misinformed—belief that hormone replacement therapy was “unsafe.”
