10/25/2025
There are so many caring providers out there with their patients’ safety in mind. Unfortunately many family practice providers and OBGYNs do not go back for additional training have been subjected only to a small amount of HRT education. We see a similar issue with urologists and standardization of TRT. All are often experts in their own Field, but not always in a specialty like hormone replacement therapy, which is an absolute symphony of adjustments, not a protocol.
HRT and TRT are specialties. We draw labs repeatedly when making adjustments to people‘s care plans. We balance ratios by bloodstream and urine instead of going by what the school books told us should be administered, despite the labs. Reminder that we also started out trained as basic women’s health and family practice. We have invested tens of thousands into advanced training on HRT. We look for optimization of symptoms and we still refer to many OBGYNs for other patient needs.
I wish I could tell you how many times I have heard from patients that their provider says they should or should not be on something. This is without looking at their labs, the changes and their health since starting HRT, and anything else associated with their current transformation. Many unfortunately, don’t even realize the changes that have occurred inside the FDA and criticism over old school approaches. I actually had a family practice provider. Tell one of my patients that her micronized progesterone is going to cause for seizures without a history.
Your do always have the best interest in your heart, but that does not always make them correct. Please feel like you have the power to say no to someone else changing your care plan. It is your body and it is your choice . Western medicine has taught us to just believe whatever our provider tells us and you should question everything.
when you break a bone, you go to an orthopedist. When your foot has problems you go to a podiatrist. When your heart is misbehaving, you see a cardiologist. When it’s time to address your hormones, you should be seeing a hormone specialist.
