CATEGORY: Stuff in the ‘biobalance health’ Category
Why You May Want To Stay On Your Antidepressant
Depression, Bipolar Disorder and PTSD. How Repeated Bouts Off Medication Cause More Severe Episodes in the Future. An article in Aeon recently called The Kindled Brain, caused me to rethink my theory that once my patients received testosterone for 4-6[...]
Signs and Symptoms of Thyroid Disease
Even if you have normal lab scores, you may still have symptoms that cause you discomfort or distress, and you may still be sick. There are major disagreements over the practice of medicine and the way it is done in[...]
Hormone Therapy and Long Term Mortality
Exciting new article on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in The Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association is one of the major pieces of literature that doctors read to obtain new information about[...]
You Better Get Healthy, Because Illness Costs Too Much!
How do insurance and pharmaceutical companies decide what to charge for prescription drugs? How do insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies make the decisions they make? How do they decide which medicines to provide and what to charge for them? How[...]
Physicians Posing as Hormone Pellet Experts
How much experience does your doctor have in hormone replacement? Dr. Maupin has been primarily focused on Hormone Replacement in her practice of Medicine for nearly fourteen years. In the beginning she was accused of quackery by other physicians. Fourteen[...]
Orgasm and Depression
The Sexual Side Effects of Depression, and Antidepressant Medicines. This week we are speaking of depression. Some of the side effects of being depressed are those that impact your libido and your desire or ability to have sex. First we[...]
Too many red blood cells are a side effect of Testosterone Therapy
Why should every man who takes testosterone have a CBC (Complete Blood Count) blood test every year? Every man who takes testosterone should be aware that one of the lab tests they should get yearly, or more often, is a[...]
A Discussion of Drug Expiration Dating
Are drug expiration dates really accurate, or our we just throwing away perfectly good medicine? Federal and State Regulations determine the expiration of a drug. After the expiration date the drugs cannot be returned to the manufacturer and they cannot[...]
Case Study – Mysterious Muscle Wasting in a 62 Year Old Woman
What to look for when Testosterone and Estradiol pellets are not working as planned. It is not often that I have trouble determining a successful treatment plan for menopausal women based on hormone pellet therapy, however I have been struggling[...]