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Hormone pellet therapy is a treatment for replacing or regulating hormones in males and females, either with forms of estrogen or testosterone or with a combination of hormones.
Hormone replacement therapy is medication that contains female hormones. You take the medication to replace the estrogen that your body stops making during menopause. Hormone therapy is most often used to treat common menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes and vaginal discomfort.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) helps treat symptoms of menopause like vaginal dryness and hot flashes. Your age, family medical history, personal medical history and severity of your symptoms are factors that may affect your decision to take hormone therapy.
This is just one kind of bioidentical hormone therapy (BHT)—a type of hormone replacement therapy (HRT)—that’s gaining popularity for women as they navigate the sometimes debilitating, sometimes ignored symptoms of perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause.
Medication that provides estrogen can relieve symptoms of menopause in two ways: Systemic estrogen therapy. Estrogen is released into the bloodstream and travels to the organs and tissues where it is needed. Examples include pills, skin patches, gels, and sprays. Local estrogen therapy.
Estrogen pill. Pills are the most common treatment for menopausal symptoms. Among the many forms of pills available are conjugated estrogens (Cenestin, Estrace, Estratab, Femtrace, Ogen, and...
At the most basic level, hormone therapy replaces female hormones, primarily estrogen and progestogens, that are lost during the menopause transition. Hormone therapy is FDA-approved as a first-line therapy for the relief of bothersome hot flashes and is shown to be the most effective treatment.
Prescription. Testosterone Therapy. Bottom Line. If you’ve been experiencing some of the early symptoms of menopause —including hot flashes, brain fog, vaginal dryness, urinary tract infections...
When you have bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), your provider places customized hormone pellets under your skin that deliver an exact dose of the hormones you need. The rice-sized hormone pellets are a solid compound of estradiol and/or testosterone.
HRT replaces the hormones that your body makes less of during and after menopause: estrogen and progesterone. HRT was a routine treatment until about 20 years ago, when the Women’s Health Initiative raised some concerns about safety. But since that time, we’ve learned more about the risks and benefits of HRT.