Diagnosing and Treating Low Estrogen Levels
(Proudly serving the Northern Virginia/Fairfax County area)
Estrogen is the main female hormone that has over 400 functions in the human body.
As women age and especially after menopause the levels of estrogen start dropping precipitously causing a slew of symptoms and disruption of health of women.
The most common symptoms are:
- Hot flashes.
- Sleep disturbances
- Dry skin
- Foggy thinking
- Heart palpitations
- Painful intercourses
- Low libido
- Night sweats
- Memory lapse
- Vaginal dryness
- Depression
- Yeast infections
- Bone loss
Diagnoses is made by history and physical combined with sex hormone testing which should show low estrogen levels, a relative low estrogen to progesterone levels
Treatment is basically replacing the estrogen preferably by using topical estrogen creams that are bioidentical.
For further information please visit our website @https://www.zinniaaesthetics.com/services/hormone-replacement-therapy
