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DRHeaded to your menopause or perimenopause appointment? Ask these 3 questions—and pay attention to the answers.
1. Are you willing to discuss hormone therapy?
→ Red flag if they say no outright, dismiss your symptoms, or bring up outdated fear-mongering about risk.
2. What percentage of your patients are using hormone therapy?
→ Red flag if they say “almost none”—that likely means they’re not offering it, not that no one needs it.
→ Red flag if they say “100%”—that suggests a one-size-fits-all approach, which isn’t good medicine either.
3. Which types of hormone therapy do you offer?
→ Red flag if the only option is pellet therapy. That’s an ethical red flag.
Pellets are not FDA-approved, often deliver supraphysiologic doses, and can be expensive and irreversible for months. There are multiple safe, effective, and customizable options—like transdermal estrogen, micronized progesterone, and more. Your care should never be limited to one method.
You’re not being difficult. You’re being informed. And that’s powerful.
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