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Article: Some women turn to antidepressants to quell hot flashes.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- January 22, 2004
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2004 JAN 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About a quarter of women who stop taking hormone replacement therapy because of its risks wind up resuming the pills because of menopause misery, says the first research to explore how easy it is to quit.
Desperate for alternatives to alleviate hot flashes, more women are turning to certain antidepressants, such as Prozac and Effexor, that can offer some relief even if the users aren't depressed.
"They're very hot right now," says Nanette Santoro, MD, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Certainly in my clinical experience, they're the best second alternative" to estrogen.
Very few other ...