Hormone Therapy for Men & Women for Haledon, NJ

One program for both, run by people you can meet

Montville MedSpa & Pain Center offers hormone replacement therapy to men and to women. Men whose blood work confirms low testosterone are treated with testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). Women are treated with estrogen and progesterone therapy through perimenopause, menopause and the years after. A hormone prescription is adjusted over months, sometimes years, so the people who write and review it matter as much as the medicine itself. This page is about them.

The physician over every plan

Dr. Donna D’Alessio, MD founded the practice and is board certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. She completed her residency in that specialty at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, where she was appointed Chief Resident in her final year, after an internship in internal medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. Every hormone plan here is guided by her, and none is handed off without medical supervision.

The nurse practitioner with a testosterone focus

Tanya Santoro, NP-C brings more than 20 years of nursing, over ten of them as a nurse practitioner, and a Master of Science in Adult Health Nursing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Hormone replacement therapy is her specialized field, testosterone replacement in particular. Before moving into aesthetics and wellness she worked in emergency medicine, cardiology and primary care.

Why that background helps you

• Hormones touch more than mood and energy. A personal or family history of hormone-sensitive cancer, blood clots or certain cardiovascular conditions can make therapy unsafe, so your full health history is taken before treatment is even discussed.
• The labs lead. Your levels are measured before anything is prescribed and read together with your symptoms. For a man, testosterone is considered only once testing has shown it is low.
• Doses are revisited, not set and forgotten. Follow-up labs and in-person reviews keep an injection, or a cream or gel used on the skin, matched to your numbers as they change.
• Your other care is under the same roof. The practice also looks after pain, veins, weight and aesthetics, and Tanya is one of its injectors, so you can see one familiar provider for more than one thing.

What the early months tend to bring

Energy, mood and sleep are often the first to shift, usually within two to four weeks. Libido, body composition and mental clarity tend to follow over two to three months as levels become stable. In the first weeks some people notice mild bloating, breast tenderness, a few breakouts, fluid retention or a sore spot where an injection went in, and these generally fade once the dose is fine-tuned.

From Haledon

Head down Belmont Avenue to West Broadway, then out along Union Avenue to Route 46. Route 23 north, Mountainview Boulevard and Route 202 carry you through Lincoln Park to 624 Main Road in Towaco, about 20 minutes without traffic.

Haledon patients ask

Can I meet Dr. D’Alessio before deciding anything? Yes. Consultations take place face to face in the Towaco office.

Is this a women’s program? No. Menopause care is one half; testosterone therapy for men with lab-confirmed low levels is the other.

When are you open? From 9 on weekdays, or 10 on Tuesdays, when we stay until 7. Fridays end at 4, and Saturday hours are 9 to 1.

Take the 30-second hormone quiz, read how the in-office program works, or see the full HRT page.

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