I am a 38 year old female who underwent a hysterectomy at 30 years of age. As a result, my body was thrown into surgically induced menopause. Without hormone replacement therapy, I would have been forced to endure severe anxiousness, severe hot flashes, mood disorders, and a severe disruption in sleep due to the drop in hormone levels naturally produced pre-hysterectomy. Without progesterone, I would be forced to treat each individual symptom with a different medication for each, thus causing an even greater polypharmacy issue. Additionally, without hormone replacement therapy, the cost to treat each individual symptom would greatly increase causing stress and anguish on behalf of patients. Removing the ability for a compouning lab to produce compounded medictions such as progesterone has a deterimental impact to patients who have been treated via compounded hormones for many years, with essentially zero regard to the negative outcome of the patient and long-term biological changes. Progesterone has afforded me the ability to live a higher quality of life. Removing compounded medications such as progesterone would result in the return of menopausal symptoms and an increased risk for medical problems such as high blood pressure and osteoperosis causing a snowball effect for other problems to arise. The FDA disallowing the production of hormones for hormone replacement therapy would hold a critical, negatively impacting response to patients who have grown accustom this method of treatment. I wholly disagree with forcing patients to endure this type of trauma and ask that the FDA consider NOT moving forward with the removal of HRT.