HRT saved my life not once but twice!

10.18.2022

Michigan Gregory

“HRT saved my life not once but twice!”

When I was 26 years old, I was diagnosed with severe PMS. It was so severe, the doctor who diagnosed me said out of all the women who have PMS, only 10% have it as badly as I did. She went on to tell me that out of those ten percent, 99% of women are one of three things. In jail. In a mental institution. Or DEAD.

I had lived 10 years with it - or tried to. There were many hospitalizations and multiple (wrong) diagnoses. I could not keep going the way I was, and thank God every day for a correct diagnosis, even if it took 10 years.

The treatment was simple. Progesterone, compounded by a local pharmacy. It quite literally saved my life.

Today, almost 40 years later, I am in menopause. Suffering from crippling body pains, exhaustion and depression, I again found a doctor who did blood work that showed I have virtually no estrogen in my system, and very little progesterone. Again, a compounding pharmacy is improving my life, filling a prescription for bio-identical hormone replacement.

In less than a week of starting treatment, the pain in my joints and muscles has been reduced by 75%. I'm not sitting still all day because of pain. I am able to do things again, and feel like I've gotten my life back.

For me, having a compound pharmacy available isn't a convenience. It's a life saving necessity. Were this not available to me, I would NOT BE ALIVE.

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.

Explore our interactive map that demonstrates the importance of compounded medicines to patients all across the country. Filter these first-hand accounts by state to see just how vital compounded medicines are.