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Menopause symptoms return after hormone therapy ends

...The women in the new study were among those who suddenly stopped the treatment.

The researchers found that 55.5 percent of women with moderate or severe hot flashes before they began hormone therapy experienced them again when they stopped, compared with 21 percent of those on placebo.

For all women in the study, 21 percent had moderate to severe hot flashes after discontinuing, compared with 5 percent of those taking dummy pills.

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Hormone pills may only delay menopause

...Their use plummeted after the Women's Health Initiative released its results.The longstanding belief has been that symptoms subside a few years after women have their last period and that taking hormones might help women avoid symptoms, although strong scientific evidence about the duration has been lacking, Ockene said.Researchers, she said, ''would have assumed that 5.5 years, which is the average length in this study, would have been enough time to see them not return."Smith, of Fitchburg, Mass., said she started having menopausal symptoms at age 49, with hot flashes so severe that they steamed up car windows.

They disappeared during the study.''Within a month they were back again.

Not quite so bad, but I still wake up at night with a good one," Smith, 73, said in a recent interview.The original study involved 16,600 women ages 50 to 79 who were given Smith was among 8,405 Women's Health Initiative participants surveyed by mail eight to 10 months after the study was halted.Overall, 21 percent of

Pills may merely delay hot flashes

...Use of hormone supplements plummeted.

The long-standing belief has been that symptoms subside a few years after women have their last period and that taking hormones might help women avoid symptoms.

The original study involved 16,600 women aged 50 to 79 who were given Smith was among 8,405 WHI participants surveyed by mail eight to 10 months after the study ended.

Overall, 21 percent of Ockene said those results suggest that many women on fake pills might have gone through natural menopause during the study, while for those on The study doesn't address what happens when women stop taking hormones gradually, and a JAMA editorial says tapering the results might help alleviate symptoms.

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