Due to extreme pain and bleeding from a multitude of severe ...

04.13.2021

Washington Seattle

“Due to extreme pain and bleeding from a multitude of severe ...”

Due to extreme pain and bleeding from a multitude of severe conditions, I had to have my ovaries and uterus removed when I was in my 30's. I tried several hormone therapies without help, and I was suffering from daily migraines that left me unable to get out of bed. The creams and patches left me with rashes, and were not providing the estrogen and progesterone balances that I required. I have been using the compounded drops since 2004, and they have saved my life, my marriage, my career, and my well-being. I have had no adverse effects, and we are able to check my hormone levels a few times a year with bloodwork, and then adjust dosage slightly to optimize. This helps keep me from having to take too much, as with a pill, or not be able to balance the progesterone and estrogen to function together. My medical providers and my pharmacy all work together well to ensure quality and appropriate dosaging, so that I feel safer and healthier taking these medications than most other ones that do not receive the same personal oversight. Please do not remove one of the few options that people have to regulate this critical health aspect of our complicated lives. Women, and men, need more choices and alternatives, and our economy needs to give smaller companies providing them a chance to provide the service.

Hear their stories. Protect their own words. Protect their access to compounded medicines.

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We encourage the appropriate committees in both the House and Senate to hold hearings on this critical issue.

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