Dr. Alison Gottschalk, Women’s Hormones ND on Instagram: "Is it safe to not have a period, if we have the Mirena IUD? From a safety perspective, there is one thing we care about more, than having a regular period, and that is the thickness of our endometrial lining. We don’t want to see the endometrium thick long term, as it puts us at risk for abnormal cell growth. It becomes thick when it’s continuously exposed to estradiol without progesterone. We call this “unopposed estrogen”, and we avoid
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Dr. Alison Gottschalk, Women’s Hormones ND on Instagram: "Is it safe to not have a period, if we have the Mirena IUD? From a safety perspective, there is one thing we care about more, than having a regular period, and that is the thickness of our endometrial lining. We don’t want to see the endometrium thick long term, as it puts us at risk for abnormal cell growth. It becomes thick when it’s continuously exposed to estradiol without progesterone. We call this “unopposed estrogen”, and we avoid
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