Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
What is Hormone Replacement?
Hormones are involved in most of the body’s basic functions like digestion, appetite, immune function, brain function, libido, and mood. Low or imbalanced hormone levels can have widespread effects on your health and feeling of well-being. For many people, the solution is hormone replacement therapy, which just as it sounds, is the use of medications to replace the hormones your body isn’t producing.
At My Dr's Apothecary, we compound bioidentical hormones for men and women. Bioidentical hormones have the same molecular structure and act the same as natural human hormones. Many doctors and patients today are choosing bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) as the preferred treatment for declining or imbalanced hormones.
Benefits of Hormone Replacement
Our pharmacists compound Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) prescriptions from scratch. Compounding gives providers the flexibility to meet individual medical needs. Our customizable approach to compounded medications allows us to concentrate creams to maximize ease of administration and create oral dosage forms with combinations of active ingredients not available commercially.
Patients sensitive to fillers will have options with the potential to accommodate a wide range of allergies. This is especially important in hormone replacement therapy, because patients have widely varying needs.
Common HRT Compounds
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Estradiol 0.2 mg/Progesterone 100 mg caps
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Estradiol 0.35 mg/Progesterone 100 mg caps
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Estradiol 0.5 mg/Progesterone 100 mg caps
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Estriol/Estradiol [80%/20%] 1.25 mg/Progesterone 100 mg caps
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Estriol/Estradiol [80%/20%] 1.25 mg/Progesterone 50 mg caps
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Progesterone 25, 75, 100, 150, or 200 mg caps
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Dehydroepiandrosterone 0.1% to 10% (W/W) topical cream
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Dehydroepiandrosterone 0.35% vaginal gel
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Dehydroepiandrosterone 10 mg caps
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Dehydroepiandrosterone 10 mg/mL sublingual drops
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Dehydroepiandrosterone 100 mg caps
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Dehydroepiandrosterone 100 mg caps
** Slow release caps are available.
