During and after menopause, I had gained weight, lost most o...

04.13.2021

Iowa ADEL

“During and after menopause, I had gained weight, lost most o...”

During and after menopause, I had gained weight, lost most of my libido, cried very easily, had night sweats, was cranky most of the time, had a lot of trouble getting good sleep, rarely slept through the night and had to get up in the middle of the night every night to urinate. After gong on bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, I have maintained a very healthy weight, have a great libido, rarely get weepy or cranky, never get night sweats, rarely wake up in the middle of the night and get a good 7.5-8 hours of sleep a night. I am very concerned about putting chemicals in my body and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy helps me avoid those chemical hormones. I am in great health and at the age of 59.5, I am on no other medications for anything. I feel that I have made choices for my body that has put me in this great position and bioidentical over synthetic is one of those choices that was paramount. I have such conviction for these bioidentical hormones that I am willing to pay quite a bit more for them that the synthetic hormones. I thought women were supposed to have freedom of choice for our healthcare and our own bodies. If you take bioidentical hormones away, you are taking away my healthcare and my freedom over my own body.

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

On this page, we can only touch on the data that demonstrates the importance of compounded medicines to the lives of millions of people in this country. While the decision to take this vital therapy from patients and physicians might be profitable for big pharmaceutical companies, it will be disastrous for the millions of patients that those same pharmaceutical companies cannot serve!

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

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