I trusted my doctor and it was a great choice.

10.07.2021

Indiana Newburgh

“I trusted my doctor and it was a great choice.”

My OBGYN is a very respected, experienced practitioner. Her father was also an OBGYN, helped train her, and was also very respected and experienced. In fact, my husband, also a physician, learned much from him in residency before the OBGYN passed away. After I had 5 children, even though in very early 40s, my body was changing a lot, almost like flipping a switch.

A few of my pregnancies had been strange hormonally, and I didn't like the way that the progesterone and estrogen pills made me feel overall though I had to take them to maintain fetal viability on some cases. These pills in their limited dosages seem kind of extreme from my body. I also tried some of them after my pregnancies when my body started changing some. My doctor had regular appointments with me and I did a hormone diary. She adjusted the doses of the pill several times, but then encouraged me to try a troche from a pharmacy she trusted several states away. She said she could get it more exact that way to what my body needed. Basically, the troche works with the way my body was already created. Throughout my visits with her, she has adjusted hormones and changed the amounts needed ever so slightly. I feel very good now and I'd say she has the right combination! Please don't remove the availability of this advancement in science. It has come a long way to achieve and to perfect to where it stands now. I encourage Congressmen to trust physicians. Physicians have to work 11 or more years to get their degree. The vast majority of physicians have the health of their patients and patients' best interests on their hearts. I feel that so much more trust should be put in them. ...So much more than is given them by the pharmacies, insurance companies, hospitals, and even by government.

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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