Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that many hormone experts only offer pellets at high doses with no alternatives. Find a provider trained in multiple methods who understands testing, monitoring, and dosing.
The key limiting factor is your provider. Are you seeing a doctor who knows all of this, who has been trained to prescribe all of these different options? Very often I get women who have gone to a quote unquote hormone expert and their only option was a pellet. And so they were getting estrogen and testosterone pellets and maybe a progesterone capsule if they had a uterus. But the doses were too high sometimes and they didn't offer them any other alternatives. So I would definitely recommend you find a provider who has been trained in all the different ways of prescribing hormones, who understands the the nuances of them all, how to test and monitor your levels with the different types of hormone replacement.
