Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormone Replacement Therapy is most often used for menopause. Typical symptoms of menopause may include hot flashes, vaginal dryness, low libido, weight gain, irritability, moodiness and sleep disturbances. Yet any woman who has experienced endometriosis, PMS, weight gain, low libido or fibrocystic breasts may also need to contact their pharmacist or physician.

Women have traditionally used synthetic estrogen therapy to treat menopausal symptoms and to help protect against osteoporosis.

Another option for women needing hormone therapy may be the use of bio-identical hormones rather than synthetic ones.  Compounding pharmacists are meeting the needs of peri-menopausal women through the use of plant-derived hormones that are biologically identical to those naturally occurring in women.

No two women are alike, of course, and the value of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy is that it can be adapted to fit your individual body and hormone levels. In fact, hormones can be made in a variety of strengths and dosage forms including capsules, topical creams and gels, suppositories and sublingual troches or lozenges.

With the help of a doctor and compounding pharmacist, a woman can start and maintain a bio-identical replacement regimen that closely mimics what her body has been doing naturally for years.

In an effort to educate and inform our local communities about our bio-identical hormone replacement therapies, we had a commercial made for insertion on our local cable networks.  The commercial, produced by CableOne for LongLines cable, is completely animated and features the cartoon woman on the left side of the page.  You can view the commercial on your computer by clicking on the cartoon figure.  It's a 2MB download and will open with Windows Media Player or any player capable of playing a WMV file.