ATLANTIC INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Hormone Replacement Therapy In Harrisonburg & Chesapeake, VA
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Following the initial blood draw, Hormone replacement therapy can be done without leaving your home. Supplies are delivered to your residence timely without you having to make any doctor visits. Have some questions, assistance is simply a phone call away. This cuts down on the costs associated with travel. Our goal is to help you begin feeling as well as you did in your 20’s and 30’s, before your natural testosterone levels began to decrease. In order to accomplish this goal we use a bio-identical hormone replacement therapy to optimize and regulate your testosterone levels as well as several other hormones.
Since the hormones we use occur naturally in your body, it greatly reduces many of the adverse side effects commonly associated with synthetic therapies. To begin treatment, we need three things to occur. First, we need blood work from you. This will help understand your current testosterone levels and ensure we get the initial dosing correct. It will also help us identify anything else that might be going on.
Secondly, we will need a completed intake form with our informed consent. This will help us understand your health history, your current symptoms, and a few lifestyle considerations and goals that will also assist us in determining the best course of action. Lastly, we bring it all together in the consultation with one of our providers. This is the point where it all comes together. The lab-work, coupled with the information from the intake will guide the practitioner in asking the right questions to make absolutely sure that we get you off on the right foot as quickly as possible with your initial prescription. Our approach saves you time and money by ensuring we eliminate as much trial and error as possible.
After being on the initial therapy for 60 days, we follow up with you again with additional lab-work and another consultation to ensure the treatment is working as desired. This also gives us a chance to determine if your individual physiology requires any additional tweaking to ensure the most appropriate dosing and optimal state is achieved. After this follow-up appointment, you will usually only be required to follow up with us once every six months. Make no mistake though if you ever feel that anything is amiss or if you feel like your hormones are out of balance, please let us know immediately and we will get you back to the lab for lab-work asap.
Symptoms of Low Testosterone
- Brain Fog
- Loss of muscle mass
- Low sexual desire
- Irritability
- Lack of motivation
- Low energy
- ED
Menopause isn’t for the weak or the faint of heart. It’s a life altering change that affects women in every aspect of their life. Emotional changes, unwanted weight gain, loss of lean muscle, loss of energy and motivation, sleep problems such as night sweats and insomnia, depression like symptoms, lack of libido, painful intercourse are just a few of the potential symptoms of the change in the hormonal health that all women inevitably experience. These changes shouldn’t be looked at as “just part of getting old.” These symptoms that can be avoided with the right practitioner, protocols and bio-identical hormone replacement therapies.
Our practitioners are highly specialized in the vast array of female hormones and can prescribe hormone replacement therapies consisting of the appropriate levels and combinations of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA and more. These therapies MUST be implemented on an individual basis. There are no “one size fits all” hormone therapies because every woman is so different from the next. These therapies can also be delivered via a myriad of applications. The most common is injectables and creams. With these options, we can definitely find the right fit for you.
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Symptoms of Female Hormonal Imbalance
- Hot flashes
- Insomnia
- Brain Fog
- Night sweats
- Anxiety
- Loss of muscle mass
- Vaginal dryness
- Headaches/Migraines
- Low sexual desire
- Vaginal pain
- Depression
- Irritability
- Weight Gain
- Breast tenderness
- Lack of motivation
- Painful intercourse
- Low energy
- Incontinence
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