Sexual Health Treatments for Women
At Ontario Regenerative Medicine, we help you rediscover a life of strength, balance, and vitality.
Are sexual health treatments right for me?
Determining if sexual health treatments are appropriate for you involves evaluating specific symptoms and their impact on your well-being. At Ontario Regenerative Medicine, we offer personalized therapies to address various sexual health concerns.
Are you experiencing…
✔ …reduced sexual desire or low libido?
✔ …vaginal dryness leading to discomfort during intercourse?
✔ …painful sexual activity?
✔ …persistent fatigue or decreased energy levels?
At ORM, we can help with sexual health treatments.
How can our treatments help?
During menopause, women experience a significant decline in estrogen, as well as testosterone and progesterone, and an increase in FSH (Follicle Stimulating Hormone).
As is well known, women’s bodies experience different hormonal stages throughout life:
Premenopause: The period of time from puberty to menopause. Premenopausal women are still producing their own estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
Perimenopause: A period of time that starts at the onset of menstrual cycle changes and other menopause-related symptoms, extending through menopause and up to one year after menopause.
Postmenopause: The period of time after menopause. A woman is no longer able to produce estradiol or progesterone.
Due to declining hormone levels, many women experience issues with their sexual health during this time. This may include a lack of sex drive, as well as vaginal dryness and painful intercourse. The physical symptoms often lead to psychological distress and an even further decline in sexual interest.
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy at Ontario Regenerative Medicine can have a profound impact on multiple variables that affect a women’s enjoyment of sexual relations. These include an increased libido, improved secretions and lubrication, reversal of perineal dryness and itching, elimination of painful intercourse, and increased blood flow, and sensation in vaginal tissues.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the assessment and optimization of a patients’ hormonal health, and the prescribing / administration of bioidentical hormones to correct any detected imbalances.
What are Bioidentical Hormones?
Bioidentical hormones are structurally similar to the hormones naturally produced in the body, and while they are not made by the body, the body responds to them as it would to a person’s naturally occurring hormones. With advancing age there is a depletion of the usual hormone levels which results in undesirable symptoms and health issues. Our bodies recognize bioidentical hormones and respond to them in the same manner they would to their own hormones due to their identical molecular structure.
How Soon Will I See Results from Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Some patients begin to notice improvement within 24-48 hours, while others may take several weeks or more to first notice changes. These benefits will increase over the next few months as your body adjusts. Diet and lifestyle, along with hormone balance are critical for optimal health.
How Are Hormone Levels Monitored Throughout Treatment?
Hormone levels will be evaluated before therapy is started. This may include an FSH, estradiol, and testosterone level testing for women. Men require a PSA (prostate specific antigen), estradiol and testosterone levels testing. Additional testing is completed to assess your liver function, kidney function, total blood count, blood glucose level, thyroid function and vitamin levels. Using this blood work, assessing your questionnaires and completing the consultation, a individualized bio-identical hormone treatment plan is devised.
For all patients, follow up blood work is obtained to further optimize your hormone levels and well being approximately 6 to 8 weeks after each dosing during the first year.
Men must notify their primary care physician they are on HRT and see them for routine medical examinations and assessment of their prostate health (PSA test and physical examination).
Female patients are advised to continue their monthly self-breast examinations and obtain a mammogram and/or pap smear as advised by their gynecologist or primary care physician.
What are Hormone Pellets?
Pellets consist of bio-identical hormones that have been pressed or fused into very small solid cylinders. These pellets are approximately the size of an uncooked grain of rice. The majority of pellets are made by compounding pharmacists and are delivered in sterile glass vials. They undergo rigourous testing for sterility and potency at independent facilities.
Are Hormone Pellets safe?
The hormone pellets available at Ontario Regenerative Medicine are sterilized by a third party company using eBeam sterilization technology. Once they are sterilized, they are routed to another company for potency testing, and lastly they are sent to another third party company for sterility testing.
Why choose Hormone Pellets?
Pellets have the ability to deliver consistent, healthy levels of hormones for approximately 3 months in women, and 4 months in men. Pellet implants provide the ideal constant levels of hormones levels. Pellets avoid the fluctuations of hormone levels associated with other methods of delivery, an important aspect in maintaining optimal health and disease prevention. Additionally, bio-identical pellets do not increase the risk of blood clots like conventional or synthetic hormone replacement therapy.
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From hormone optimization to cartilage regeneration, we create personalized treatment plans based on thorough testing and monitoring.
We treat our patients for their unique needs and symptoms, rather than simply viewing lab results. We go beyond the numbers to alleviate our patient’s symptoms and get them back to living the lives they want to live.
