Menopause hormone therapy doses are generally higher than hormonal contraceptive doses.

“the biggest difference between contraceptive Doses and menopause hormone therapy doses they're both based in estrogen and progesterone mostly okay the hormone therapy was developed to stop a hot flash for decades menopause was defined by the presence or absence of you know severe menopause was defined by hot flashes or not they didn't didn't nothing else and so they developed the formulations with enough estrogen to stop hot flashes birth control was developed to stop ovulation you don't ovulate you don't get pregnant”