HORMONE THERAPY · GREENWOOD, INDIANA
Hormone therapy, measured rather than guessed
Pellet therapy and hormone care with Peighton, PA-C, and Chelsey, FNP-C. We test before we treat, and we test again after, because dosing off symptoms alone is how people end up on too much of something they did not need.
IF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR
You were told your labs are normal. You still feel nothing like yourself.
The fatigue that sleep does not fix. The weight that will not move no matter what you do. Libido that quietly disappeared. A temper that is shorter than it used to be, and a brain that loses the word halfway through the sentence.
Most people have been told some version of it is age, it is stress, or it is normal for where you are. Sometimes that is true. Sometimes nobody has actually looked.
HOW WE DO IT
Test, treat, then test again
Pellets are small inserts placed under the skin that release bioidentical hormone steadily over several months, instead of the peaks and drops you get from creams taken daily or injections taken weekly. The dose is set from your labs and your symptoms together, and it gets checked again after you start.
That follow-up is the part that matters and the part that gets skipped. Hormones are not a set-and-forget prescription.
Pellets are what BioTE is known for, but they are not the only way to do this. We evaluate for creams, injections and orals as well, and the route you end up on can affect which pricing path fits, pellet-only or the wellness membership. We treat men and women, and the workup is the same either way.
Labs and cost
Labs get drawn as dosing is adjusted, at your provider’s discretion. Not on a fixed schedule somebody printed out once.
Women are usually re-pelleted every three to four months. Men, usually closer to every six.
What it costs depends on the route, pellet-only or the wellness membership. Call the office at 317-300-4091 and we will walk you through yours.
Hormones and mental health overlap more than either field likes to admit, and telling them apart is its own question. We wrote about that separately: is it your hormones, your mental health, or both?
Self-pay, the same as everything else we do. We do not bill insurance, so there is no claim and no surprise bill. You can still run labs through your insurance elsewhere if you would rather.
Two ways people do this
Hormones are not a one size situation, and neither is how you get them handled.
Stand-alone hormone care
Some people want the hormone piece and nothing else. Labs, pellets, follow-up, and your primary care stays wherever it already is. That is a complete plan on its own and plenty of our patients do exactly that.
The wellness membership
Other people get more out of our direct primary care membership, where we optimize your hormones as one part of the whole picture instead of in isolation, next to everything else we are already watching. The membership covers the visits and the management. The pellets themselves are a separate cost either way.
Not sure which one is you? Call and ask. It is a short conversation and a better use of your time than guessing. 317-300-4091
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACTUALLY ASK
Hormone therapy questions
Do I need a referral?
No. Call the office and we will talk through whether testing makes sense for what you are describing.
Will you just put me on hormones?
Not without looking first. If your labs and your symptoms do not line up, we will say so. Hormone therapy is not the answer to everything and we are not interested in selling it that way.
How long until I feel different?
It varies enough that we do not quote a number, and anybody who does is guessing. What we can tell you is what we are aiming at. Optimization is the goal, not a lab report that technically lands inside the reference range. No more “your labs are normal” while you feel like a stranger in your own body.
Do you treat men too?
Yes. Men and women, and we do not run it as two different clinics. Same workup, same follow-up, same goal. Men usually go a little longer between pellets, but the approach does not change.
Does insurance cover it?
No, and we do not bill it. This is self-pay like the rest of the practice, so there is no claim and no prior authorization to wait on.
GET STARTED
Start with the labs, not the guess
A free consult, about thirty minutes, with Peighton or Chelsey rather than a call center. You will hear what testing we would run, what it costs, and whether this is worth doing at all for what you are dealing with.
Hormone therapy at AlphaOmega Wellness is provided by Peighton, PA-C and Chelsey, FNP-C, with physician oversight from Dr. Dee Bonney, MD, board-certified emergency medicine physician. AlphaOmega Wellness is physician-led and family-owned, in Greenwood, Indiana. Meet the team.