Female sex hormones in tablets

To correct hormonal disorders in women, substitution therapy and menopause, tablets containing female sex hormones can be used. The main female sex hormones include estrogens and gestagens (progesterone), which are produced by the ovaries. Before you assign any female sex hormone in tablets to correct the menstrual cycle, you need to know which phase of the cycle it is working on and what functions it performs. Also, pills that contain female hormones are used as contraceptives. But contraceptive pills with female hormones can contain both estrogen or progesterone, and both hormones (combined contraceptives). To choose the right treatment for the desired female sex hormone, you need to know their function in the body.

Estrogen and progesterone - functions

The main female sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone, are not only produced in different phases of the cycle, but also play a different role in the body. Functions of hormones:

1. Estrogens are produced by the ovaries in the first phase of the cycle and contribute to the destruction and subsequent proliferation of the endometrium. Additionally, estrogens affect the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics, increase the deposition of subcutaneous fat, normalize the skin and mucous membranes, exchange cholesterol, increase the density of bone tissue.
2. Progesterone is produced by the ovaries from the beginning of the second phase and provides ovulation and implantation of a fertilized egg, supports the retention of pregnancy, preventing the uterus from contracting and ensuring its growth, prepares the mammary glands for the production of milk.

Female hormones in tablets - names and functions

In tablets, female sex hormones are produced: estrogens, progesterone, and combination preparations containing both estrogens and gestagens. Slightly used tablets phytopreparations, increasing female sex hormones in the body. Tablets containing estrogens (most often estradiol) are indicated for replacement therapy after removal of the ovaries and with complications of menopause, in some forms of breast cancer and for contraception. Contraindicated for tumors of the uterus, a tendency to thrombosis. Most often, these drugs are taken strictly by numbering on certain days of the cycle, since they contain a different dose of hormones for each of the phases. Of the most famous, you can list such names of estrogen in tablets, as Ovestin, Regulon, Premarin, Rigevidon, Miniziston.

Tablets containing female hormones of gestagens (progesterone and its synthetic analogs) - Progesterone, Dyufaston , Utrozestan. They are shown with the threat of termination of pregnancy in the first trimester, premenstrual syndrome, cystic fibrotic mastopathy, endometriosis, menstrual irregularities, for replacement therapy after removal of the ovaries. Contraindicated tablets with progesterone in the second half of pregnancy, kidney and liver failure, increased blood pressure, diabetes, bronchial asthma, thrombosis and thrombophlebitis, epilepsy, migraine, with lactation and ectopic pregnancy.

Tablets containing both, estrogens, and gestagens - combined hormonal preparations, are used both for contraception and for hormonal regulation of menstrual cycle disorders. They are divided into high, low and microdosed (50, 30-35 and 15-20 μg EE / day), monophasic (the same dose of hormones in all phases of the cycle) and three-phase (different doses of hormones in different phases).