In this episode, Board Certified Ob/GYN Dr. Hajira Yasmin & I discuss Menopause & Treatment Options / Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) including answers to the following questions:
- What is menopause?
- How are women with symptoms of menopause evaluated?
- Should women be expected to just live with symptoms of menopause?
- Why is lifestyle so important to the menopausal woman?
- How do hormones affect overall health?
- What can we do to prepare for menopause?
- What are the non-medication treatments (vitamins, supplements, herbs) and do they work?
- How are hormones delivered and monitored?
- What is the difference between birth control pills and HRT?
- What are the different types of HRT?
- Why did HRT get a bad rap?
- What are bioidentical hormones?
- How does bioidentical HRT differ from synthetic HRT?
- Is HRT FDA approved?
- What are the risks associated with HRT?
- Can cancer patients / survivors take HRT?
- What is the role of the partner of a woman going through menopause?
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Dr. Hajira Yasmin is a Board-Certified OB/GYN with expertise in Sexual Medicine as an AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor and North American Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner. She has obtained Sexual Medicine Fellowship in Women’s Health with International Society for Study of Women’s Sexual Health and training as a Sexuality Counselor from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Yaz has over two decades of experience in the field of OB/GYN having practiced in India and England. She completed her OB/GYN residency from Magee Women’s Hospital, University and then practiced in Marshfield Clinic Health System (MCHS) for over 10 years delivering babies and performing uro-gynecologic, laparoscopic and a robotic gynecology surgeon. She was instrumental in starting the Gynecology Robotics Program in the hospital.
In addition, she is a sexuality educator and served as a Lead Faculty and Adjunct Assistant professor at University of Wisconsin, Madison to teach medical students about general OB/GYN, niche topics in sexual and menopausal medicine.
With her continued passion and postgraduate training in menopause and sexual medicine, she was the Founding Physician and Medical Director of Women’s Intimacy clinic under the umbrella of Marshfield Clinic Health System. Here she served women with perimenopause/menopause concerns, restoring physical intimacy in cancer survivors, treating pain concerns in vulva/vagina and pelvis.
Dr. Yasmin sits as an active board member of Advocacy Committee and Membership Committee for the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) to promote women’s sexual health awareness at national and international levels.
Dr. Yaz specializes in treating perimenopause, menopause hormonal balance, sexual dysfunction in women, vulvovaginal pain disorders, skin disorders of vulva, pelvic pain and restoring physical intimacy during survivorship care after cancer.
For more from Dr. Yasmin check out:
www.alraymd.com
IG- @yasmingynomd
FB page- Alray Direct Gynecology & Intimate Health
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