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Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: 7 hours ago | Replies (15)
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@lhankins Thank you for sending me a reply. Yes, I know women who were told SSRI's would help them manage their menopausal anxiety and hot flashes. They were told HRT was too risky so they took these other meds instead. They probably would have been better off on HRT, but now it's too late since they are 10 years post menopause. I feel as if we've been let down badly by the medical community. I really wish there were better treatment options.
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I did not take hrt after menopause. Ignore the 10 year thing. I am 77 and just started it last summer. Guess it is never too late.
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Women’s health care has been neglected writ large. I have had to work very hard to get past the anger I first felt when originally diagnosed; then the frustration of the medical model for prescribing designer drugs that fail to provide a long term solution for many people. Maybe a silver lining in all of this is that women are becoming more proactive in their approach to their overall health and longevity. I know my daughter and her friends have benefited mightily from my experience and my hope is this next generation coming up will be much better informed at an earlier age thereby avoiding what many of us experienced. For now, we simply march on and do the best we can to help each other.