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Hormone Replacement Therapy — What’s the Best Route?

11/21/2015

So you and your physician have decided that the best thing for your health, your wellness, your sexuality, your cognition, your erections, your stamina or your menopausal symptoms is to initiate a course of hormone therapy. You have hopefully discussed the risks and benefits of therapy, and with a physical exam in conjunction with appropriate laboratory testing have chosen a dose of hormones that will be initiated. This all seems pretty simple, and you leave the doctor’s office with a prescription in hand, or with a call being made to your preferred Walgreens (although I would recommend that the call be made to the closest compounding pharmacy). The salient question is now; have you been placed on an appropriate dose and delivery route of the hormone, and do you have a plan in place to monitor this medical regimen safely?

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