If I have a hormonal deficiency, will I need to take hormones for the rest of my life?

Yes, we recommend that you remain on bioidentical hormone supplementation, once you start. The reason for this is that once your hormone levels have declined, they will not increase again and must continue to be replenished. If you stop supplementation your body will go back to producing the levels it produced before you began supplementing. Therefore, the symptoms experienced when the patient was deficient are the symptoms the patient should expect to experience when bioidentical hormone  supplementation ceases.