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  2. Female hysteria - Wikipedia

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    Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for ...

  3. Hormone Therapy Was Villainized For Decades. Now, It ... - AOL

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    Women who’ve had a hysterectomy only need to take estrogen. ... It can make a huge difference in women’s sex lives as they get older. The estrogen drop during menopause causes your vaginal ...

  4. Hormone replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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    [67] [68] Oestrogen-only HRT, taken by people who had a hysterectomy, comes with an extremely low level of breast cancer risk. The most commonly taken combined HRT (oestrogen and progestogen) is linked to a small risk of breast cancer. This risk is lower for women in their 50s and higher for older women. The risk increases with the duration of HRT.

  5. Hysterectomy - Wikipedia

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    The national rate for the same timeline was 338 per 100,000 population, down from 484 per 100,000 in 1997. The reasons for hysterectomies differed depending on whether the woman was living in an urban or rural location. Urban women opted for hysterectomies due to uterine fibroids and rural women had hysterectomies mostly for menstrual disorders ...

  6. Women's Health Initiative - Wikipedia

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    Women assigned to the intervention group who had previously undergone a hysterectomy were treated with unopposed estrogen, specifically conjugated estrogens (Premarin, manufactured by Wyeth), at a dosage of 0.625 mg/day ("E-alone," n = 5310; placebo, n = 5429).

  7. Viola Davis shares she had hysterectomy, reveals she ...

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    Davis has a family history of reproductive health issues; two of her older sisters nearly bled to death after labor and subsequently had to have hysterectomies, the second most frequently ...

  8. Olivia Munn says she had hysterectomy as part of breast ...

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    “I have now had an oophorectomy and hysterectomy,” the actor told Vogue magazine. “I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.” “I took out my uterus, fallopian tubes, and ...

  9. Ovarian remnant syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Some women have symptoms consistent with endometriosis, including difficult or painful intercourse; urinary symptoms; or bowel symptoms. It is likely that some women with ORS don't have any symptoms, but the rate of this is unknown. In most cases, symptoms occur within the first five years of the oophorectomy, although there are reports of ORS ...