Testosterone Pellets for Women

The above video focuses on the BioTE system of Testosterone Pellets for women. The most common form of pellet delivery in the United States. Other systems out there have similar results. I have offered this treatment for many years now with tremendous success. I have also used Testosterone Bioidentical cream for the majority of my patients with equal success. Just depends on how you want to take your hormones.

Here are my personal biases regarding Testosterone Therapy in summary:

• Testosterone is a tremendous benefit for men and women and improves the quality of life for both.

• You can get equal benefits from Pellets or Creams.

• Dosing is individualized and not one-size-fits all.

• Creams are easy to manage and can be adjusted as needed immediately without having to come into the office.

• Creams are easy to place below your belly button, inner thighs, or inner arms.

• Pellet dosing can be more challenging as you are stuck with that dose given for several months.

• Pellets can be more convenient (one and done) but you do have to come in every 3-4 months for pellet placement on your buttock area.

• Some women do not absorb creams very well and will need pellets or pills.

• Injectable testosterone damages health in the long term. Avoid them.

• I can easily manage dosing of testosterone creams with Zoom or FaceTime or Phone follow ups every 3-4 months by evaluating both the symptoms and labs of patients.

• In the long run creams are much cheaper than pellets but pellets are more convenient once placed because you do not have to remember use your creams every evening.

• You need a local and accessible Bioidentical Hormone specialist if you choose pellets because you have to come in every 3-4 months for insertions.

• It is important for the doctor to use reliable compounding pharmacies. We use Zane’s Pharmacy in Lake Forrest, California, continuously for almost 20 years. They ship to most states and are rapid in reply and service and the most price conscious for my patients. They have been the Gold Standard for decades and were instrumental in teaching the USC School of Pharmacy on how to compound bioidentical hormones. I have no financial connections with them. They are just really really good guys with the best products for my patients.

• Here is the Math for Pellets for Women: Testosterone and Estradiol Pellets are about $500+ per insertion 4x a year = $2000. You have to take Progesterone pills or creams also most of the time. Progesterone pills are cheap. Progesterone creams are also inexpensive. That comes to about $2,500 per year every year for Pellets that includes the Progesterone also.

• Here is the Math for Creams for Women: Hormone management for the first year is about $2,500 for the doctor fee plus the Pharmacy Creams at $50 a month ($600) to total $3,100 for the first year. After the first year its is $1500 a year for the doctor fee plus the pharmacy cost of $600 a year for a total of $2,100 per year every year. So in most cases creams are cheaper per year than pellets by about $400-500 per year.

• Lastly, I have Bioidentical Hormone Cream patients in all 50 states.

Red Alinsod, MD (red@alinsodinstitute.com, www. alinsodinstitute.com,www.gynflix.com)

Testosterone Therapy at the Alinsod Institute Dallas and Las Vegas

Avoid injectable testosterone for men and women.

I do not think injectable testosterones are safe.

Pellet therapy and Cream therapy are both safe and give the same results.

In my personal experience, the percent of women who do not absorb testosterone or estrogen or progesterone well is much less than the 45% stated in this slide made by BioTE. It is less than 10% in my practice.

Hormone Cream with Estradiol, Estriol, Testosterone, Progesterone, DHEA is as low as $50 a month at Zane’s Pharmacy due to the volume of prescriptions they fill everyday. That comes to about $1.67 a day as of June 2024.

Pellets are more convenient on a day to day basis and costs about 2 - 3x more than creams.

Go to www.drdach.com for a more complete coverage of Bioidentical Hormones. He offers his excellent books at no charge in a digital formal. Bioidentical Hormones 101 and Natural Medicine 101 are epic in scope. Thank you Dr. Dach for writing these books to help women worldwide.

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