desperately needed HRT

02.13.2025

Maryland Havre De Grace

“desperately needed HRT”

After having a partial Hysterectomy when I was 49 years old my body went into perimenopause. Hot flashes, night sweats, loss of sleep, I could go outside in 25-degree weather and still feel too hot. I still had a long life to live, and I happen to be someone who desperately needed hormone replacement because my mother who passed at the age of 92 told me she still was getting hot flashes.
It was affecting everything from my sleep to my daily performance. I got the patch, but it did not address the testosterone nor the progesterone levels. There were testosterone creams for men but not woman and because I had a partial hysterectomy the doctor said I did not need progesterone.

Here I am today at age 68 feeling like my life was given back to me in a troche form and now on capsules. I have energy to carry on life's responsibilities and to feel like living. Because as a woman, these compounds played a vital part in the quality of my life. I did not feel like living with my chemicals in chaos. AND we don't have to live this way.

These compounds are from Yam based ingredients and are safer than any synthetic.

I am writing this story to urge those who would like to disrupt or dispute the necessity of HRT for those women who truly need it to live productive lives. I am one of them.

Congress needs to cooperate to make HRT a choice for women. One affordable and effective. More doctors are specializing in testing and prescribing compounding hormones for women that are in need.

Thank you for your attention in this matter. FDA do not try putting restrictions on a natural product that works. Monitoring HRT is what we do as doctor and patient. Monitoring is what FDA should do. NOT to try RESTRICTING. Hormones are vital for those who need them to live a productive life.

With regards,

Deborah A. Cunningham

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