Addressing challenges
related to menopause
Recently, the author of an informative, entertaining (yet lengthy) article in the NY Times described several menopausal challenges that her friends faced.
At Town & Country Compounding, we hear similar challenges all too often. Women are feeling miserable due to the inability to control their symptoms of perimenopause or menopause. They do not feel heard, that their misery doesn’t matter. It does!
“The symptoms friends experienced were varied and intrusive. Some lost hours of sleep every night, disruptions that chipped away at their mood, their energy, the vast resources of goodwill that it takes to parent and to partner. One friend endured weeklong stretches of such heavy menstrual bleeding that she had to miss work. Another friend was plagued by as many as ten hot flashes a day; a third was so troubled by her flights of anger. Another felt a pervasive dryness in her skin, nails, throat, and eyes — as if she were slowly calcifying.”
After hearing about her friends’ experiences, the author decided that our culture must have a high tolerance for women’s suffering. Symptoms endured during menopause are often not even considered, by many practitioners, to be significant enough to warrant discussions about treatment options.
“Imagine that some significant portion of the male population started regularly waking in the middle of the night drenched in sweat, a problem that endured for several years. Imagine those men stumbled to work, exhausted, their morale low, frequently tearing off their jackets or hoodies during meetings and excusing themselves to gulp for air by a window. Imagine that many of them suddenly found sex to be painful, that they were newly prone to urinary tract infections, with their penises becoming dry and irritable, even showing signs of what their doctors called “atrophy.” Imagine that many of their doctors had received little to no training on how to manage these symptoms — and when the subject arose, sometimes reassured their patients that this process was natural, as if that should be consolation enough.”
Our pharmacists are trained experts in women’s health; we can help!
At Town & Country Compounding, we have compounded customized bioidentical hormone replacement (BHRT) prescriptions for women for over 30 years. Our pharmacists have been trained well beyond pharmacy school with women’s health issues.
We understand what you are going through.
We are passionate about helping women with hormonal issues and realize how this time of transition can take a toll on their everyday life.
ADDRESS HORMONE IMBALANCE BY KNOWING YOUR LEVELS
Our non-invasive saliva testing services allow patients to decide when and how often to measure their hormone levels.
Diet, exercise, lifestyle, and supplements
The quality and source of the supplements matter.
We have professional brands of supplements
- Pure Encapsulations
- Nordic Naturals
- OrthoMolecular
- Xymogen
We can help you make the right choice for what you need.
Ask us about our suggested product “bundles” to support your health goals.
