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Hormone Truth
Does This Sound familiar:
Decreased sexual interest or response, mood swings, hot flashes, fatigue, anxious, depressed, dryness, heavy or irregular periods?
The Truth Is...
- Hormones are essential to your life and your health
- When it comes to feeling well, balance is the key.
- Diet, stress, lack of sleep, medications and other "modern-society factors" can cause life-altering and even cancer-causing changes to your delicate hormone system
The Truth Is...
- Understanding how hormone deficiency (or excess) can cause many common symptoms will reveal new options for you to consider
- Bioidentical Hormones are an important tool to help restore and rebalance your delicate system
- Your decision-making process will be guided with knowledge. You can change your body's chemistry by changing some daily habits like diet, sleep, managing stress, taking vitamins, targeted supplements and more
- Prescriptions for synthetic hormones need not be the first choice as you strive to restore the balance you once enjoyed
The Truth Is...
There are options to help these symptoms of hormone imbalance:
- Moodiness
- Fatigue
- Loss of libido, or sexual enjoyment
- Hot flashes
- Dryness
- Heavy periods
- Painful periods
- Insomnia
- Depression
- Anxiety
You deserve to understand how hormones may be related to your symptoms. You deserve to have the right tests ordered, and you deserve complete consideration of the results in light of your symptoms.
Hormone Truth is your gateway to the practice of Steven A. Rabin, MD. He will take the time to understand your symptoms and how they affect your life. Together you will explore the options you may have, not just write a prescription for antidepressants and send you on your way.
The confusion expressed in the news headlines about what is right and wrong about hormones has caused unnecessary anxiety and difficulty for women who are trying to make a decision.
We all have and need hormones. Some hormones are essential to maintain life! With abnormal, excessive, deficient or unbalanced level, we may live miserably. These imbalances can cause health problems and they can even cause cancer. The diabetic needs insulin; those with sluggish thyroids need thyroid! Is there any question about that?
The natural existence of hormones in our bodies and the balance we humans are programmed to maintain is challenged daily by the lives we lead (stress, lack of sleep), the foods we eat (highly processed and refined carbs) and the chemicals we are exposed to. Even the fat around our middle causes dangerous and cancer-promoting changes that we do not have to accept.
We strive to educate, enlighten, and help our patients understand their symptoms as a result of some underlying hormonal, dietary or stress related cause. Once we uncover those challenges we work on them. By removing the obstacles to health, your body can return to the healthy balanced state it was programmed to maintain.
The truth is, our hormone levels change every day, throughout the month and with every year and decade of our lives. There are consequences of those changes, and many are not too pleasant. We live longer lives (on average) than ever before. So the years of decay and disability, of dryness, mental confusion, hot flashes, insomnia, night sweats, dry skin, thinning hair, and fatigue (which may start around age 35 - 45) can plague us for another 40 - 50 years given the life span of humans today in our sophisticated world!
What are you willing to do to help your health span equal your life span??
- You are unique and your body chemistry is as unique as your fingerprint.
- Why be treated with a "one-size-fits-all" solution?
- You shop for clothes that fit, shoes that fit, and eat meals that satisfy your particular tastes!
- Why should managing your menopausal and premenopausal symptoms be any different?
- Wouldn't it be amazing if your particular set of symptoms, health goals and hormone levels were recognized as unique and important?
- There are at least 12 different profiles of menopausal symptoms
- Which one are you?
Does your doctor treat you with the same pill, at the same dose as his/her last 100 patients?
- Do you think that a cookie cutter approach is really the best way?
- Everyone experiences hormonal changes differently.
- And over time, little by little, you continue to change. Your needs and your dose today may not be the same as they will be in 2 years.
Are you beginning to see that there really might be a better way?
You are probably wondering why all physicians don't practice this way.
Come meet your new Gynecologist.
Call today to schedule your appointment!
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404-252-3898
Here is a general outline of how we take care of
our new Hormone Consultations:
Hormone Consultations and New Patients for Dr. Rabin
We cannot conduct phone consultations and cannot review labs, treatment changes, etc. by telephone. Please schedule a follow up visit.
Generally the visits look like this:
1st visit
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Fill out questionnaires see “New Patients” (on DoctorRabin.com or HormoneTruth.com).
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Meet with Dr. Rabin to review
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Order appropriate labs and tests
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A prescription may be given at the first visit based on your history and symptoms
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May recommend which vitamins, supplements to take; Review diet guidelines
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Review sleep issues if any
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Schedule a follow up in 3-6 weeks
2nd Visit (about 3-6 weeks later)
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Review the lab results
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Review initial response to prescription if already given
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Write new prescriptions based on response and lab reports
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Plan follow up lab tests if necessary
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It may take 3-10 weeks to feel the effects of a new or changed prescription
Don't forget, we specialize in general and surgical GYN care! Keep up with your Annual Exam at yearly inverals. Schedule your annual appintments with Dr. Rabin (not at the same time as a hormone consultation or follow up). We will keep you up-to-date with your Pap Smear, in certain circumstances we use Transvaginal Ultrasound of the Uterus, endometrial lining, and Ovaries, Breast exam, and we help you schedule a Mammogram, and Bone Density test.
3rd Visit (about 3-6 months later)
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Get an order for the blood testing (Do Test 3 weeks Before the Visit)
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come to our office or go to a nearby Quest Lab 3 weeks before this visit
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Do the Labs while Using All Prescriptions
- Have your blood drawn 10-14 hours after your most recent dose of hormones (estrogen, progesteorne, testosterone, thyroid, any of the creams or pills)-have blood drawn on the arm no rubbed with hormone cream most recently.
- if normally using cream in AM and Pill At night; use both cream and pill the night before the blood test is done
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We will review your labs at the visit (takes about 3 weeks to get all the labs back)
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Changes to the prescriptions can be made at this visit
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Annual exam with pap if due, possible ultrasound
4th visit
Additional visits may be scheduled as needed.
Please note, we cannot review your labs over the phone. We can mail you a copy of your labs if desired.
Due to the number of patients we take care of and the importance, intensity, and time involved in reviewing hormone problems, response or lack of response to prescriptions, we cannot care for you via phone calls. At each visit's conclusion...Make a follow up appointment to get the answers and explanations you deserve.
Call for a visit if you are having unscheduled bleeding past the first 3 months of initiation hormone use.
We will make every effort to fit you into the schedule especially if you are having an urgent problem. Please come in to see our nurse practitionier (Chris) or physician assistant (Sally) for any problems if we can not fit you in to see Dr. Rabin.
After your initial year, there would typically be only one or two visits per year to continue therapy with Dr. Rabin.
We are a full-service gynecological practice and hope to become your primary gynecologist for all of your routine and specialized women’s health care needs. Dr. Rabin is a board certified gynecologist and performs procedures in the office as well as outpatient and major gynecologial surgery at Northside Hospital.
You are encouraged to attend his lectures, seminars or purchase his DVD's (Available after July 2010 at www.RabinVits.com) covering many topics of interest so you can learn more in the comfort of your own home!
You are encouraged to improve your diet, sleeping patterns, exercise routine, vitamin and supplement use, and continue to learn about optimizing your health and vitality.
Visit www.DoctorRabin.com
and www.RabinVits.com
On the HOME page, you will see a box, “Dr. Rabin’s Recommended Books.” Click on this and find excellent resources to help you understand hormone, diet, fatigue and sexual issues that you may have discussed at your visit.
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"As a new-comer to the Atlanta area, two years ago, I needed to locate a gynecologist. It was my luck to be able to become a patient of Dr. Rabin. At 64, I have seen at least four other gynecologists, but none have been more responsive and helpful to me than has been Dr. Rabin. First, and most important, his ability to listen and engage me about my history and health was outstanding. He also showed real "bedside" support during a very difficult time that I was going through as a result of my husband suffering from brain injury from a car accident and my role as the primary care giver which affected my emotions tremendously. He used current research findings to match my need to reduce postmenopausal anxiety and spotting. I have been using bio-identical hormone therapy with much success for almost 15 months; and he is very pleased with its results. In addition he is always timely and responsive to my concerns and questions; and I really appreciate this." T.S.
