Hormone therapy getting second look for taming menopause symptoms [Video]

UPPER DUBLIN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — For years, hormone therapy was off the table for easing the symptoms of menopause.

But lately, it’s getting a second look.

For Stephanie Rosenfeld, menopause came early and hit hard after cancer treatment.

“It was the hot flashes. It was the mood swings. It was the inability to focus,” Stephanie recalls.

She says the brain fog was especially difficult, affecting both work and family life.

“You kept walking away from things, and things would take you twice as long,” she adds.

After first being told to just deal with the symptoms, friends urged her to search for other solutions.

She found them with Temple Health gynecologist Dr. Debra Somers.

Dr. Somers says the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative study, which branded hormone replacement therapy as risky, was misleading and distorted, off by a factor of 10,000.

She says it exaggerated the breast cancer risk.

“They’re quoting a 30% increased risk of breast cancer, when in actuality, the increased risk of breast cancer was .08 %,” she …