Hormone Replacement Therapy

As you age, it’s common for hormones to decrease, resulting in frustrating symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, fatigue, and diminished sex drive. At Creekside Wellness, the experienced team provides hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to adults at their location in Cypress, Texas. Both men and women can reap the benefits of HRT and experience a boost in energy and restored quality of life. To learn more today, call the practice or reach out online.

What is hormone replacement therapy?

For both men and women, hormones like testosterone and estrogen are essential. As you age, these hormones decrease, leading to side effects like hair loss, fatigue, depression, sexual dysfunction, and infertility. 

High stress levels, diabetes, certain cancers, or obesity can also increase your risk of hormone imbalances.

Creekside Wellness offers innovative hormone therapy options like EvexiPEL hormone therapy. This technology utilizes bioidentical hormones that natural plant sources create to replicate your body’s natural hormones.

When do I need hormone replacement therapy?

Symptoms of a hormone imbalance range in severity and include: 

• Night sweats
• Hot flashes 
• Trouble concentrating 
• Vaginal dryness 
• Low libido 
• Decreased bone mass 

Your Creekside Wellness provider may recommend hormone therapy to alleviate your symptoms and also to:

• Improve energy and mood
• Strengthen muscles
• Reduce body fat
• Reduce joint pain
• Improve depression and anxiety 
• Alleviate sexual dysfunction 
• Help with menopause symptoms 
• Improve sleep 

Hormone therapy can also lower your risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, dementia, and stroke. 

What are my hormone replacement therapy options?

EvexiPEL
Your provider conducts a thorough physical exam and lab tests before your EvexiPEL procedure — this allows them to determine the correct dose of hormone pellets to insert.

The procedure takes 4-10 minutes in the Creekside Wellness offices. Your provider uses a local anesthetic to numb the incision area. They then insert 10-12 hormone pellets beneath the fatty lining in your upper buttocks. They use sterile tape stripes to close the incision. 

A major benefit of EvexiPEL is that your bloodstream naturally regulates hormone absorption. 

Hormone pellets last around nine months in men and three months in women, but it depends on several factors. Because your body is adjusting to new levels of hormones, it’s vital to share any side effects or changes you experience with your provider. They can adjust dosages as needed.

Systemic hormone therapy 
This therapy contains a high amount of estrogen that your body can absorb through pills, gels, creams, rings, and skin patches. Your provider may recommend this to treat menopause symptoms.  

Vaginal products 
Low-dose vaginal products like creams, tablets, or rings minimize the amount of estrogen your body absorbs. These products focus on treating the urinary or vaginal symptoms brought on by menopause. 

To schedule a hormone replacement therapy consultation with Creekside Wellness, call the practice today or use the convenient online booking tool.