Women’s Sexual Health Resources

A woman’s libido does not have a simple on/off switch. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to this issue. The key to increasing libido is identifying the potential reasons it’s low, which can be deeply personal. Hormonal imbalances, sexual dysfunction, problems within a partnership, and other health conditions or medications can negatively affect libido. Seeking support from a healthcare professional can open up options.

Low sex drive in women is especially common during perimenopause and after menopause. Compounded HRT can target low libido and support sex drive. Consultations with a compounding pharmacist will explain the hormonal challenges of advancing age and share therapeutic options, like estradiol, testosterone, and oxytocin.

Low sex drive can happen at any time and it’s easy to misplace blame. Both women and men can experience it, though embarrassment and shame can prevent partners from talking about it. Studies indicate that when women express the importance of sex to their partners and show a clear desire to improve their sex life, men listen. The goal is to build intimacy and foster connection so couples can address low sex drive together.

For many women, the natural decline in hormones (particularly testosterone) during perimenopause and menopause can contribute to low sex drive. Testosterone plays an important role in libido and sexual pleasure. It’s also the hormone women most abundantly produce over the course of their lifetime, but it begins declining as early as a woman’s 30s. Other factors that may contribute to low female sex drive include physical changes, stress, fatigue, vaginal dryness, and other symptoms related to perimenopause and menopause.

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) addresses the root causes of low libido in women: declining hormones, which naturally occurs with age. BHRT is personalized for individual needs and may help increase a woman’s libido and improve her overall sexual health. Personalized BHRT for women that addresses low libido may include testosterone, oxytocin, progesterone, estradiol, and DHEA.

Belmar Pharmacy offers a variety of dosage forms to enhance women’s sexual wellness and address menopause symptoms. Customized hormone therapies are available in systemic applications, such as oral tablets, capsules, troches, fast-burst sublingual tablets, topical creams and gels, and hormone pellet implants. Belmar also compounds localized therapies like vaginal creams and suppositories to target symptoms such as vaginal dryness and painful sex.

Hormone pellets are designed to release a steady, consistent dose of hormones into your bloodstream during the course of 3 to 4 months. About the size of a grain of rice, and implanted into the fatty tissue of your buttocks by a medical provider, pellet therapies address the many symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, including sexual dysfunction. Optimizing your hormones through hormone pellet therapy may improve libido, vaginal dryness, mood, and the many other symptoms women experience during perimenopause through menopause and beyond.