Hormone Therapy and Hot Flushes

“Hormone therapy is one of the most effective treatments
available for bothersome hot flashes and night sweats.
If hot flashes and night sweats are disrupting your…”.1

Umbrella

What may the Hormone Therapy and Hot Flushes Umbrella include?

Depending on the Source (DotS) this Umbrella may include:

  • Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
  • Hormone Therapy (HT)
  • Hot Flashes
  • Hot Flushes
  • Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT)

Hormone Therapies

What are hormone therapies?

DotS the definition of hormone therapies may vary. The Menopause Society’s (formerly the North American Menopause Society) definition is:

“Hormone therapies (HT), sometimes mistakenly called hormone replacement therapy, are the prescription drugs used most often to treat menopause symptoms such as hot flashes and genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), which includes vaginal dryness after menopause”.2

Effective or Not

How effective is HT for the treatment of hot flushes?

On page one in Deciding About Hormone Therapy Use: Potential Benefits, published February 2025, the Menopause Society (formerly the North American Menopause Society) elaborate on:

“Hormone therapy is one of the most effective treatments available for bothersome hot flashes and night sweats. If hot flashes and night sweats are disrupting your daily activities and sleep, HT may improve sleep and fatigue, mood, ability to concentrate, and overall quality of life. Treatment of bothersome hot flashes and night sweats is the principal reason women use HT”.3

Potential Benefits

Do the potential benefits of HT outweigh the potential risks when taking HT for the treatment of hot flushes?

In Hot Flashes: Diagnosis & Treatment – Diagnosis: Treatment the (United States) Mayo Clinic note:

“The best way to relieve hot flashes is to take estrogen. But taking this hormone carries risks. If estrogen is right for you and you start it within 10 years of your last menstrual period or before age 60, the plusses can be greater than the risks”.4

Potential Risks

What are the potential risks when taking HT for the treatment of hot flushes?

In Hormone Therapy: Is Hormone Therapy Safe? the Menopause Society explain:

“For most women, experts agree that HT helps to control moderate to severe menopause symptoms such as hot flashes when initiated within 10 years of onset of menopause or under age 60 years.

You and your healthcare professional need to balance your individual benefits and risks based on your medical history. For example, if you don’t have a uterus and can take ET alone, your risks are different from those women who still have a uterus and must use EPT to protect against uterine cancer”.5

What is ET?

ET can be an abbreviation for Estrogen Therapy.

What is EPT?

EPT can be an abbreviation for Estrogen Plus Progestogen Therapy.

Health Care Provider

What if I choose to use HT for my hot flushes?

If you choose to use HT for your hot flushes, it may be in your best interest to also choose to talk to your health care provider about this.

On page two in the Joint Position Statement By the British Menopause Society, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Society for Endocrinology on Best Practice Recommendations for the Care of Women Experiencing the Menopause, first published online 10 June 2022, one of the recommendations is:

  • “The decision whether to take HRT, the dose and duration of its use should be made on an individualised basis after discussing the benefits and risks with each patient. This should be considered in the context of the overall benefits obtained from using HRT including symptom control and improving quality of life as well as considering the bone and cardiovascular benefits associated with HRT use. Discussions with women should also cover aspects such as when to consider stopping HRT and how this can be done (by gradually reducing the dose of HRT). No arbitrary limits should be set on age or duration of HRT intake”.6

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  1. Deciding About Hormone Therapy Use: Potential Benefits. 2025:1. Menopause Society https://menopause.org/wp-content/uploads/default-document-library/MenoNote-Deciding-About-HT-2025.pdf Accessed: 12 July 2025
  2. Hormone Therapy. Menopause Society https://menopause.org/patient-education/menopause-topics/hormone-therapy Accessed: 12 July 2025
  3. Deciding About Hormone Therapy Use: Potential Benefits. 2025:1. Menopause Society https://menopause.org/wp-content/uploads/default-document-library/MenoNote-Deciding-About-HT-2025.pdf Accessed: 12 July 2025
  4. Hot Flashes: Diagnosis & Treatment – Diagnosis: Treatment. 04 March 2025. Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hot-flashes/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20352795 Accessed: 12 July 2025
  5. Hormone Therapy: Is Hormone Therapy Safe? Menopause Society https://menopause.org/patient-education/menopause-topics/hormone-therapy Accessed: 12 July 2025
  6. Hamoda, H, Mukherjee, A, Morris, E, Baldeweg, S. E., Jayasena, C. N., Briggs, P, Moger, S. Optimising the Menopause Transition: Joint Position Statement By the British Menopause Society, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Society for Endocrinology on Best Practice Recommendations for the Care of Women Experiencing the Menopause. First Published Online 10 June 2022:2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20533691221104882 Accessed: 12 July 2025
Topic Last Updated: 12 July 2025 – Topic Last Reviewed: 12 July 2025

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