S3 Ep163: The Problem with Pellets

Less than 3% of post-menopause women use commercially produced hormone therapy. However, increasing numbers of women dealing with hot flashes, insomnia, painful sex, and loss of libido are using non-FDA-approved hormone pellets. Millions of women have no idea that they are using a form of hormone therapy that is unregulated and associated with side effects such as an enlarged clitoris, and male pattern baldness, as well as an increased risk of hysterectomy.

• How pellets are different than FDA-approved commercial hormone therapy
• Why pellets are so popular
• The problem with pellets
• Side effects from pellets
• Irreversible side effects
• Typical hormone levels when using pellets
• Why women are more likely to bleed when using pellets
• Why women are more likely to need a hysterectomy when using pellets

 
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Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health. 

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