CLEVELAND — Menopause is a natural part of aging for women, and the decline in hormones can come with life-altering side effects like sleeplessness, mood swings and hot flashes.
Hormone replacement therapy is one way to treat these symptoms, and more women are now seeking this type of medication after the Federal Drug Administration lifted a black-box warnings on HRT medications last year.
The removal of these warnings has led to a shortage of some popular estrogen patches, and while they are getting harder to find, the patches are not included on the FDA’s drug shortage database…