Hormone therapy, involving supplemental estrogen (oral, patch, or pellet), is a common medical treatment for menopause symptoms, with variable individual success.

“Well, one of the most common ones is that physicians will prescribe supplemental estrogen, so this is hormone therapy where somebody takes either their oral estrogen or they'll use a patch or a pellet, some way to secrete estradiol into the system, and that has varying success depending on the individual, some people respond very well to it, other people really have challenges with it”

“one of the most common ones is that Physicians will prescribe supplemental estrogen so this is hormone therapy where somebody takes either oral estrogen or they'll take they use a patch or a pellet some way to secrete estradi into the system and that has varying success depending on the individual some people respond very well to it other people really have challenges with it and there are a lot of side effects associated with it for some people not others in addition there's a concern always about supplementing estrogen when there's a breast cancer uh background in the family or there's concern about breast cancer for any reason because a lot of those cancers are estrogen dependent”