How to Talk to Your Doctor About Hormone Therapy

A step-by-step guide to prepare for your appointment

Overwhelmingly, the question I get most often from you, the readers of Hot Flash, is not whether you could or should take hormone therapy, but how to approach your doctor about it in the first place. I understand why this feels fraught. In our medical system, doctors are pressed for time and it can be difficult to know exactly when and how to address to…