I tried to find a conventional solution to my hormone imbalances for multiple years, starting in my early 20's, experimenting with at least five synthetic hormone options. I have several autoimmune diseases, and my hormone imbalances can make my other conditions far worse than they are. The deficiencies also add depression and intense irritability to my list of symptoms, which makes everything else so much harder. About seven years ago, I finally found a doctor who recommended and prescribed compounded bioidentical progesterone and estrogen. While the conventional hormone options gave me terrible side effects and very little symptom improvement, cBHT has made a huge difference for me, drastically improving my fatigue, inflammation, depression, and pain. I cannot imagine losing access to bioidentical compounded hormones and ask that everything be done to prevent that. My medical conditions are expensive, disabling, and challenging enough without any added barriers to getting one of the few types of treatment that actually helps. Increasing the regulations around cBHT and giving pharmaceutical monopolies even more market control is highly unethical and absolutely unacceptable.