Women can have low hormone levels for many reasons and at any age. But, all women face this challenge in the years before and after menopause when their ovaries stop producing estrogen.
Some navigate menopause with few symptoms. Others experience a wide range of uncomfortable changes — not just hot flashes.
The loss of estrogen causes problems like pain during sex, dry skin, thinning hair, mood swings, urinary incontinence, and osteoporosis. All these challenges can be prevented or reversed with hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
When Chetanna Okasi, MD, at Women’s Wellness MD, recommends HRT, she prescribes bioidentical hormone pellet therapy. Here’s why this treatment is preferred and the benefits it delivers that you can’t get from other HRT options.
Bioidentical hormones are like the hormones your body produces. They have the same chemical structure; your body uses them like natural hormones.
A bioidentical treatment to replace estrogen contains estradiol, the primary form of estrogen made by your ovaries. Synthetic hormones consist of other biochemicals.
Bioidentical hormones come from plants, usually yams, as they’re a rich source of estrogen. By comparison, synthetic hormones come from the urine of pregnant horses (conjugated equine estrogen).
A pellet is about the size of a grain of rice and contains bioidentical hormones. We implant the pellet under your skin (in the office), usually on your hip.
The implanted pellet gradually and continuously releases the hormones into your bloodstream. As a result, your hormones return to a healthy level, and your body has the consistent supply needed to restore your well-being.
One pellet lasts 3-6 months. As it nears the end of its hormone supply, we can implant a new pellet if you want to continue bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.
The top three benefits of bioidentical pellet therapy include:
You don’t need to remember daily pills, weekly patches, or monthly shots. After we implant the pellet, you can depend on balanced hormones for at least three months (and possibly longer).
One of the challenges of pills, creams, patches, and shots is that you get the entire dose at one time. Your hormone levels decline until it’s time to take the next dose, and then, once again, you flood your body with a full dose.
By comparison, pellets slowly release a steady stream. Your hormone levels won’t fluctuate. With an implanted pellet, your body gets spared the ups and downs of other forms. You can depend on consistent results, optimized hormone levels, and symptom relief.
Even as the pellet reaches the end of its dose, you still get a constant level. As long as you come in for a new pellet, your hormone levels won’t drop.
When you need to rebalance hormones to improve your health, the last thing you want is the premanufactured, one-size-fits-all approach of conventional hormone replacement therapy.
You don’t need to worry about that with pellets. Pellets contain bioidentical hormones customized to meet your unique hormone needs.
Call the Women’s Wellness MD office in Columbia or Greenbelt, or schedule an appointment online today. We learn about your symptoms, explore treatment options, and help you regain optimal health and energy.
