Psychosomatic Symptoms of Postmenopausal Women with or without Hormonal Treatment

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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to compare the psychosomatic symptoms of post-menopausal women who are users of hormonal treatment with the pscyhosomatic symptoms of nonusers. We studied 68 postmenopausal women receiving estrogen treatment (age range 48-56 years; 51.1 .+-. 1.9 mean .+-. SD) and 50 postmenopausal women (age range 45-55 years; 50.7 .+-. 2.5) as controls. The symptoms we studied were: (1) nightly perspiration; (2) vasomotor flushes; (3) dyspnea; (4) vertigo; (5) headache; (6) disturbance of libiod; (7) depression, and (8) anxiety. We found a beneficial effect of estrogen treatment in nightly perspiration (p < 0.01), vasomotor flushes (p < 0.001) and disturbance of libido (p < 0.01). We found no difference between the two groups in dyspnea, vertigo, headache, depression and anxiety. Our findings show that with hormonal treatment in postmenopausal women there is a beneficial effect in only some psychosomatic symptoms.