Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why treating perimenopause requires more than just hormones. Clinicians often prescribe them empirically, but the real work is finding what's driving the imbalance, especially in younger patients, or symptoms will keep returning in new forms.
They were focused on the perimenopause issue, and so they were just empirically giving her hormone replacement because her periods were going away and she was having hot flashes and night sweats and not sleeping well and gaining weight. That's fine. And she probably does need hormones. But if you don't fix the root cause of what's driving that imbalance, especially when you're younger, it's going to continue to manifest and show up in other ways.
