if your not sure about the safety of bio-identical hormone pellet therapy, I recommend this opinion article from The Wall Street Journal.

Here is what my patients say about insomnia, “I can’t sleep longer than 4 hours! I wake up at 2 and can’t go back to sleep, and when I do sleep I never wake up rested! I can’t work or think anymore because I am sleep deprived!”

Insomnia is a common symptom of menopause. We’ll discuss the many problems associated with insomnia in our consultation, and we’ll compare the therapies and how we’ll deal with it in the BioBalance 4 Women treatment.

Fatigue is one of the most frequent complaints doctors hear. If you’re experiencing fatigue for the first time in your 40s and 50s, it is most probably due to hormonal imbalance. Fatigue can also be due to many other diseases unrelated to hormones. I will help you learn the difference.

Other causes of fatigue that occur in our 40s are due to an under active thyroid gland, and low blood sugar, also referred to as insulin resistance. I treat those as well as Estrogen and Testosterone imbalance. Bringing you back to health means treating all your deficiencies to make you whole again.

I believe that for those who had a healthy sex drive before andropause, the subtle loss of libido is one of the most devastating changes that occurs in our thirties and forties. So many of my patients come to me crying because they don’t like their husbands anymore. They are devastated that they cannot find an answer from the medical community, except that they are depressed or crazy. 

If you woke up one day and asked yourself, why don’t I think of, dream of or want sex anymore?” If you wonder what you ever saw in your husband, but don’t know why you feel that way, then a lack of testosterone is most likely your problem.

During your consultation we’ll talk more about symptoms, and I will tell you more about how testosterone affects your libido. I will walk you through a description of what treatments are available.

Female andropause is rarely discussed but is so important to what is wrong with you! Andropause occurs years before menopause and it steals your youthful figure, ability to think, energy, self esteem, beauty, sex drive, and most importantly your health!

Andropause is the loss of Testosterone that reaches a critical level between 38 and 50 in most women. You have a critical level, and we don’t know what it is until you experience it….it is unique to you! This is what makes it hard to measure scientifically..it is most easily diagnosed through your symptoms, age and then confirmed by blood levels. Because until recently women were not thought by the medical mainstream to have a libido, it was not even addressed as a problem.

Andropause is real in women and men! If you are thinking, ”I am not menopausal yet, but there is something really wrong with me!” It may be andropause.

Testosterone gives us so many wonderful things when we are young, and actually works on our brain to make us who we are: I provides our happy mood, our self-esteem, motivation to work and play, and of course our Libido! Physically Testosterone gives us muscle mass, a healthy immune system, young looking skin tone, orgasms, and many other attributes we associate with youth.

I understand that to begin a relationship with a new doctor you must form a contract of trust with her. I want you to learn about me and my staff so you can trust us with this portion of your health care. You may want to hear my story when I was in need of a compassionate doctor, and how I found pellet therapy. I will share my complete story in an upcomming blog entry. 

Above all I want you to know that I am qualified to take care of you. I’ll also share my practice history and you can read the credentials of my medical staff on this website. Please acquaint yourself with us. I am not a researcher, but an OBGYN practitioner who has taken care of women for over 25 years, doing all the things OBGYNs do, as well as prescribing bio-identical formulations since 1986. I study research from various specialties to keep me on top of the newest findings for the benefit of my patients.

I earned my medical degree is from the University of Missouri Medical School, but I always felt out of place in that world. I was one of the first female OBGYNs and approached my patients and their care from a preventive standpoint, trying to partner with them to achieve wellness.

I am the creator and the only physician for Biobalance 4 Women. I am board certified 1989 and re-certified in 1998 by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. I am also a fellow of that college. I am licensed in Missouri, and also practice with a group of women doctors, Balanced Care for Women, in St. Louis Missouri.

I have been in private practice for 22 years. I have spent years developing treatment protocols for Biobalance 4 Women and now Biobalance 4 Men, as well as collaborating with business experts as to how to do the business of this type of practice. All this time I have been aching to finish my virtual CD program for you and other women who ask me why they have not heard of this therapy before!

My philosophy in medicine has always been to promote wellness in my patients, in the most natural way possible. BioBalance 4 Women® Treatment is a unique way of diagnosing and treating andropause and menopause by replacing hormones with the exact hormone that your body made before either of these two changes. By replacing these hormones under the skin in pellet form, the body absorbs and uses the hormones before they are changed by going through your stomach, skin or vagina. Every pure hormone that is absorbed through one of these pathways is transformed into metabolites of the hormone that have side effects. By placing these pellets under the skin in the fat of your hip, we give you back what you made in your youth, and your body responds accordingly.

Our therapy also includes balancing your other important hormones like thyroid and insulin, so that you can regain a state of wellness. I cannot promise that you will live a day longer on BioBalance 4 Women pellets, but I can tell you that you will live more fully and regain your old self back! You will be healthier.

I am working on a software program entitled the BioBalance 4 Women Virtual Office Visit. It will be available on CD-ROM in the first quarter of 2009. This entry of my blog features an excerpt from the program where I state the purpose of the Virtual Office Visit.

You are the reason I developed this Virtual Office Visit! I want every woman who needs help with their menopause problems to know that there is a treatment for their symptoms, and that they are not alone! I also believe that your education is the first step to wellness. You may find after our “visit” that you need my help face to face, and I will tell you how to make an appointment.

In some ways, this program is superior to an office visit with me face to face. I have the opportunity to give you as much time as you need and as much information I have on each symptom and diagnosis you may have. 

Don’t worry, this is real medical information and you can find references to medical articles in the Reference portion of this Virtual Visit CD. You’ll also find a section covering why we aren’t hearing the right information from traditional medical care.

I know how helpless you may feel, and what it means to lose yourself from hormonal imbalance, but I am here to tell you that “I am back,” as are so many women I have treated!

If you are here to find help for your peri- menopause and menopausal symptoms, I believe I can help you. I have over 1500 happy patients in my practice who are just waiting share their stories with you.

Most of my patients had been told by their regular doctors that they are imagining their symptoms that were actually a result of hormone imbalance, but they had a serious set of symptoms that turned their lives upside down. They have an imbalance of the hormones Testosterone and Estradiol. 

You see, these patients that have a real problem, and they were not being heard! They are probably just like you, searching for an answer and confused by all conflicting information in the media. BioBalance 4 Women’s key to successful treatment is the use of Bio-Identical Hormones—both estradiol and testosterone—placed under the skin to give you an even hormone level every day…..but we do so much more than that!

I created BioBalance 4 Women therapy to treat women just like you. I am also a woman who experienced just what you are going through, and I know how bad it can be and how great it is to be healed!