If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. At the Endocrine Society meeting in San Diego, researchers presented the findings of a multi-centre study in which 75 women who were menopausal as a result of either hysterectomy or oopherectomy used testosterone patches in an attempt to restore some of their lost libido.
Testosterone patches are already available for men who suffer from hypogonadism.
One-half of a woman s circulating testosterone is produced by the ovaries. Therefore, hysterectomy or oopherectomy leaves them hormone deficient, Dr. Braunstein explained. Women enrolled in the trial ranged in age from 20 to 55 and, on average, it was four years since their surgery. The women did not report any incidence of acne or hirsutism as a result of taking the testosterone. Critics of the study pointed out that the questionnaires used had a rather limited definition of success because sexual happiness was defined only as frequency of intercourse and whether they had an orgasm.