Hormone Replacement Therapy
 Hormone Replacement Therapy is most often used for menopause.
Typical symptoms of menopause may include hot flushes, 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 doctor.
Women
have traditionally used synthetic oestrogen 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
and 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 pessaries and sublingual
troches or lozenges. With the help of a doctor and a compounding
pharmacist, a woman can start and maintain a bio-identical
hormone replacement regimen that closely mimics what her body
has been doing naturally for years.
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