Usage, Directions, Indication and Instructions
This is used after menopause to reduce moderate to severe hot flashes; to treat moderate to severe dryness, itching, and burning, in and around the vagina; and to help reduce your chances of getting osteoporosis (thin weak bones).
You can take steps to decrease the risk that you will develop a serious health problem. Do not take this alone or with a progestin to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, or dementia. Take the lowest dose that controls your symptoms and only take as long as needed.
Adverse Reactions, Precautions and Warning
Inform your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to it or any other medications. Do not forget to tell your doctor and pharmacist your medical history, what other prescription and non-prescription medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are taking or plan to take. Notify your doctor immediately if effects persist and worsen like: breast pain or tenderness, upset stomach, vomiting, heartburn, constipation, diarrhea, gas, weight gain or loss, leg cramps, nervousness, depression, dizziness, burning or tingling in the arms or legs, tight muscles, hair loss, unwanted hair growth, spotty darkening of the skin on the face, difficulty wearing contact lenses, swelling, redness, burning, itching, or irritation of the vagina, vaginal discharge and change in sexual desire cold symptoms. Using estrogens, with or without progestins, may increase your chance of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and blood clots. Using this, with or without progestins, may increase your chance of getting dementia, based on a study of women age 65 years or older.
Dosage and Administration
This is usually taken with or without food once a day. When used to relieve the symptoms of cancer, it is usually taken three times a day. Take it at around the same time(s) every day. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Take exactly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or take it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
Important
This may increase your risk of developing cancer of the ovaries or gallbladder disease that may need to be treated with surgery.