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MENSTRUAL CYCLE PROBLEMS

If you are having a problem with heavy

bleeding during your period, your doctor

might suggest that you use a low-dose birth control pill. This will make your menstrual cycle and flow more regular, prevent pregnancy, and help with hot flashes. However, using the pill could make it hard for you to know when you have reached menopause—

you will probably continue to have periods, even after your ovaries are no longer making estrogen and progesterone, because of the hormones in the pills. If you are the right age for menopause, you might need

to stop the birth control pill for 12 months only bothered by vaginal symptoms,

to see whether or not you have a period. If inserting a vaginal estrogen tablet or vaginal you don’t want to become pregnant during

ring containing estrogen or applying an

that time, you will need to use some other estrogen cream in the vagina will probably method of birth control.

relieve symptoms locally. With estrogen