Hormone replacement is most often used to treat the signs and symptoms of menopause or peri-menopause. These may include:
Other reasons for utilizing hormone replacement include PMS, Endometriosis, Fibrotic Breasts, and decreased libido. Hormones are also used to help protect against osteoporosis.
The traditional pharmaceutical solution being used by most today are synthetic estrogens and progestins. For some women, these synthetic hormones produce unnecessary side effects and other unwanted effects. Your compounding pharmacist can offer hormones that are biologically identical to those naturally occurring in women.
Your physician and your compounding pharmacist can create an individualized hormone therapy that is tailored to your body's own balance. This can be done not only by adjusting doses of individual natural hormones, but also by variations in how the dose is delivered. Your compounding pharmacist can create capsules, topical creams and gels, suppositories and sublingual troches (lozenges) individually tailored to your needs.
With the help of the physician a compounding pharmacist, a women can maintain a bio-identical hormone replacement regimen that closely mimics what her body was doing naturally for years.
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