Hi. I'm Kelly, a 62 year old female who began using compounded hormones at the approximate age of 40, with nothing but EXCELLENT, IMMEDIATE and SUCCESSFUL results.
Within one month of going into menopause, I had gained about 30 pounds in the first 30 days, and I was a wreck! I cried incessantly and without cause. My marriage was threatened and life was MISERABLE! Thank goodness I had an older friend who had begun taking compounded hormones. She directed me to a doctor who ran the appropriate blood tests and prescribed the hormone treatment. Literally within a day or so I began to feel more human!
In the beginning, the hormones were provided in a cream form which you had to rub on various parts of the body. Today and for the last maybe 12 - 15 years, I've been fortunate to take the pellet injections and a single compounded capsule form of one of the hormones.
I do not use pharmaceutical drugs and could not well survive without the current hormone treatment, which by the way has caused NO NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS in the 12-15 YEARS OF USING THEM!
No man can understand the feeling that a woman in mesopause feels because they cannot experience the exact same thing. For any man to be in a decision making capacity on this issue is illogical and perhaps could be considered discriminatory.
The fact that the issue of limiting( or altogether denying) a woman's right to choose her form of hormone treatment is even in debate is undeniably ridiculous.
Doesn't congress have better and important things to do?