Envision a world w/hundreds of thousands of hormonally imbalanced women

05.04.2021

Wisconsin Beloit

“Envision a world w/hundreds of thousands of hormonally imbalanced women”

I suffered from erratic mood swings, suicidal feelings, severe depression, debilitating anxiety,, bizarre menstrual cycles (which can cause infertility) chronic fatigue, hair loss and a dizzying array of other symptoms, Ive seen doctors often. I was, for decades, prescribed a slew of pharmaceutical medications to address these issues (if doctors could even FIND the problem), none of which worked. In a desperate attempt to find what was REALLY wrong, I tried a natural health practitioner who, very strangely, was the FIRST doctor in over a decade to think to test my hormones before throwing me on pointless birth control medications to regulate my cycle. What they found was that I was estrogen dominant and my progesterone was virtually non-existent. (Hence going without my period for months. My doctor prescribed bioidentical progesterone to treat my hormone imbalance (hormones that are chemically identical to what your body produces rather than some synthetic junk with horrendous side effects). My quality of life was improved DRASTICALLY. My decades long depression had completely disappeared, I was no longer yelling at everyone around me for using the good towels or leaving the butter knife out; I could concentrate at work and finally had enough energy so that I could actually start working like I used to. My hormones haven’t been completely balanced yet, but they are very close. Banning bioidentical hormones would cause all of my symptoms to return to how I was before I was taking them and leave me without an acceptable alternative.

Recently, after being prescribed a pharmaceutical medication, a side effect I later found out was lowering testosterone, I needed to be prescribed testosterone replacement therapy as a result- throwing another wrench in my hormones. Big pharmaceutical companies are more than willing to hand us things that imbalance hormones, but want to take away the solution

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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