Of all the incredible benefits from hormone therapy, the reconnection of partners is one of our favorites. Intimate connections are vital to lifelong fulfillment, and feeling your closest partnership decline is distressing. At Renew Wellness & Aesthetics, we offer BHRT in OKC for those struggling with hormone deficiencies.
Hormone therapy may feel like magic to some of our patients, but it’s actually quite methodical. We’ll evaluate your hormone levels and use them to work towards internal balance so that, somewhere along the way, you can rediscover external balance.
With some help from hormones, you can experience many improvements to your daily well-being. Keep reading to learn how hormone therapy can help you rekindle your relationship and more.
Defining BHRT
BHRT stands for bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, and it’s a cutting-edge treatment for your overall health. With aging comes a decline in a variety of biological components, including hormones. To reverse hormonal imbalance at Renew Wellness & Aesthetics, we can use either pellets, creams, or oral medication.
The Bioidentical Difference
Synthetic hormones have been on the market since the 1940s. They can be mass-produced at relatively cheap costs. Comparatively, bioidentical hormones entered the market in the 1980s and are more complex and costly to produce. As a result, synthetic hormones have been the more popular treatment of the two historically.
Despite the popularity of synthetic hormones, their bioidentical counterpart is a safer and more effective treatment. Bioidentical hormones are procured from plants and designed to mirror the naturally occurring hormones in your body. For that reason, your body cannot differentiate between your hormones and those added.
Renew Wellness & Aesthetics prefers bioidentical hormones for their efficacy and enhanced safety profile. Our co-founder, Dr. Julie Shelley, has completed many hours of additional training on bioidentical hormones and peptides.
Reconnecting With Your Partner
To grasp how BHRT in OKC can help you reconnect with your partner, it’s valuable to understand what role hormones play in your body. Then you can see how replenishing your hormone levels alleviates your symptoms and results in a collaborative impact on your relationship.
The Role Hormones Play in Your Body
Hormones are your body’s postal service. One area of your body will craft a message and send it to another area via hormones to carry out a certain function. For example, insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, travels to cells all over your body and notifies them to let blood sugar in. Without insulin, you wouldn’t be able to convert food into energy.
Using over 50 types of hormones, your body system is in constant communication with itself to carry out nearly every biological function. These functions include processes for your:
- Growth
- Metabolism
- Stress response
- Blood pressure
- Sexual development
- Sexual reproduction
- Heart function
- Sleep cycles
- And more
As you can imagine, when you’re missing key hormones, you likely won’t feel your best. BHRT in OKC can replace the hormones responsible for whichever of your functions are underperforming.
Symptoms of Hormone Imbalance Treated by BHRT
Hormonal imbalances affect men and women differently as a result of their respective biological patterns. However, they also have many symptoms in common, including:
- Poor sleep
- Night sweats
- Low energy
- Lack of motivation or focus
- Mood swings, anxiety, or depression
- Loss of libido (sex drive)
- Sexual dysfunction
- Weight gain
- Muscle loss
- Hair loss
Challenges in any of these areas could indicate a hormonal imbalance. You don’t have to be a senior to experience this. For women, hormone imbalance often begins 10 to 15 years earlier than menopause. To learn more about the differing symptoms and treatment plans for hormone imbalance in men and women, read the following blogs:
If you suspect a hormonal deficiency may be responsible for your symptom(s), reach out to Renew Wellness & Aesthetics for a free consultation. We can discuss your symptoms, medical history, and more to determine if lab work is a good idea for you. From there, we will collaborate with you to develop a treatment plan customized to your needs.
Collective Impact of Hormone Therapy on Your Relationship
What we love most about treating patients with BHRT in OKC is enabling patients to be themselves again: energized and confident. Most of our BHRT patients tell us that not only do they feel better, but they have a stronger relationship—physically and emotionally—with their partner. So why does this happen?
The stress of symptoms like low energy, poor sleep, and mood swings does not contribute to a healthy relationship. And weight gain, muscle loss, and hair loss can cause lowered self- esteem. As the saying goes, you have to love yourself before you can love someone else.
Symptoms like lowered sex drive and erectile dysfunction can be directly harmful to a couple’s connection. Without a physical relationship, many partners begin to feel disconnected from one another. Complex, negative emotions can arise from these issues.
Making a partnership successful takes hard work, and the complications from hormone deficiencies only make it harder. Often, that challenge becomes more than some couples can handle. BHRT can resolve this plethora of issues.
Research has shown that deviations from natural hormonal fluctuation can affect your attraction to your partner. It stands to reason that if your hormonal balance has changed since the time you first became attracted to and compatible with your partner, that attraction could change as well. BHRT restores your natural hormonal fluctuation, and thus can restore the natural moods and emotions you were experiencing at the time of your initial attraction.
There are elements of BHRT that will benefit from continued research. What we can say with confidence is that our patients consistently experience improved connection with their partners.
BHRT at Renew Wellness & Aesthetics
Our founding providers both have certificates in EvexiPEL hormone replacement therapy. EvexiPEL uses a patented pellet to release bioidentical hormones to support your needs. We also offer hormones in a cream or oral form as treatment options.
Personalized Treatment Plan
As we’ve mentioned, we only decide to treat patients with BHRT in OKC after a full lab panel and an investigation into the blood results. The form of hormone therapy you receive will be specific to your needs. Depending on your preferences and hormone levels, your provider at Renew Wellness &
Aesthetics will recommend the best treatment plan for you.
We often combine BHRT with treatments like thyroid optimization, peptide therapy, or nutritional supplements. The most commonly addressed hormones are:
- Testosterone: Primary male sex hormone, present in both men and women.
- Estrogen/estradiol: Primary female sex hormone, most popular hormone therapy as it supports women undergoing menopause.
- Progesterone: Steroid hormone that plays a key role in the human body, particularly in the reproductive system.
EvexiPEL Hormone Pellet Therapy
Renew Wellness & Aesthetics performs pellet therapy rather than injections because it more closely replicates your body’s natural process. Pellet therapy is the only available hormone therapy that releases hormones 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
We insert it directly under the top dermal layer of skin, allowing the hormones to be absorbed directly into your bloodstream. This allows for the most efficient delivery of hormones to your system.
Over time, the supplemental hormones from the pellet can resolve your deficiencies and ease your symptoms. The pellet will dissolve gradually. You’ll eventually need a new pellet to keep seeing the benefits from hormone therapy.
The EvexiPEL Procedure
You can administer oral and cream hormone therapies at home with instruction from one of our providers, whereas pellet therapy is completed in our office. This procedure takes less than 30 minutes and requires minimal downtime.
We begin by injecting lidocaine into the pellet insertion site, which is just under the skin in the hip or upper buttocks area. Once the area is numb, inserting the rice-sized pellet is a quick process, causing minor discomfort.
You should avoid activities that will disrupt the pellet insertion site in the days following your procedure, so it has time to heal. These include:
- Baths
- Hot tubs or swimming
- Scrubbing or excessively touching the insertion site
- Major exercise
Moving Forward
You can continue BHRT in OKC as long as it’s making you feel better. Typically, the duration of treatment is indefinite. With pellet therapy, you’ll need to come back in to receive a new pellet after it has dissolved.
The time it takes for a pellet to dissolve can vary based on your metabolism and activity level. For women, this is about every 3 to 4 months. For men, it’s about every 5 to 6 months. At your consultation, we can discuss the details of your treatment more in depth.
Rediscover Wellness & Connection With BHRT in OKC
It’s common to dismiss your own struggles, especially as you get older. Aging doesn’t have to be laced with pain and isolation. Renew Wellness & Aesthetics is here to examine your challenges and implement solutions. Whether or not hormone imbalance is to blame, we will work with you to build an effective treatment plan.
If you’ve been feeling off, come into our practice to turn yourself back on (in more ways than one). Because BHRT in OKC can be a transformative treatment with the right provider, we want to see you in our office. For whole-body health solutions, including hormone therapy, see a specialist at Renew Wellness & Aesthetics.