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Menest
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What is Prescribing information?
The FDA package insert formatted in easy-to-find categories for health professionals and clinicians.
Menest Prescribing Information: Indications & Dosage
Menest (estrogens) is indicated in the:
- Treatment of moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms associated with the menopause.
- Treatment of moderate to severe symptoms of vulvar and vaginal atrophy associated with the menopause. When prescribing solely for the treatment of symptoms of vulvar and vaginal atrophy, topical vaginal products should be considered.
- Femalehypogonadism.
- Female castration.
- Primary ovarian failure.
- Breast cancer (for palliation only) in appropriately selected women a...
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What is Menest Prescribing Information?
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What is Patient information?
Easy-to-read and understand detailed drug information and pill images for the patient or caregiver from Cerner Multum.
Menest Patient Information: Side Effects
If you experience any of the following serious side effects, stop taking esterified estrogens and seek emergency medical attention:
- an allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of your throat; swelling of your lips, tongue, or face; or hives);
- a blood clot (pain, redness, and swelling in an arm or leg, shortness of breath, chest pain, headache, blurred vision, or confusion);
- a lump in a breast; or
- liver damage (yellowing of the skin or eyes, nausea, abdominal pain or discomfort, unusual bleeding or bruising, severe fatigue). ...
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What is Consumer information?
A concise overview of the drug for the patient or caregiver from First DataBank.
Menest Consumer Information: Uses
This medication is a female hormone. It is used by women to help reduce symptoms of menopause (such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness). These symptoms are caused by the body making less estrogen. If you are using this medication to treat symptoms only in and around the vagina, products applied directly inside the vagina should be considered before medications that are taken by mouth, absorbed through the skin, or injected.
Certain estrogen products may also be used by women after menopause to prevent bone loss (osteoporosis). However, there are other medications (such as raloxifene, bisphosph...
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