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Menopause Hormone Therapy When You Have Multiple Sclerosis: What the Evidence Actually Says
Yesterday a patient sat across from me and asked a question I've been hearing more and more often. She's in her mid-fifties, three years past her last period, living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, and she is exhausted. Not the vague tiredness of a busy week — the kind of fatigue that makes her cancel plans. She's waking at 2 a.m. drenched. Her thinking feels slower than it did two years ago. Her neurologist tells her the MRI is stable. "So is this my MS getting worse," she asked, "or is this menopause? And if I start hormone therapy, am I going to make my MS worse?" It's a genuinely good question, and for a long time the honest answer was we're not sure. That's changed. Over the past two years, several large studies have given us far clearer footing. Here's what we know now — and what I told her.