Hot flashes. Trouble sleeping. Pain during sex. Many women endure some of these symptoms of menopause, because of a controversial 2002 study that scared women and doctors away from hormone replacement therapy.When 72-year-old Marla Gain of Orange was 50, doctors removed her ovaries which threw her into menopause.
"Women were truly - I guess the best way to say is they were freaked out," said OB-GYN Dr. Thomas Ruiz with MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center. "You don't have to arbitrarily stop your hormone replacement therapy at 65, you can continue it on through the end of life or whenever you want to stop, " said Ruiz.
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