I was experiencing severe, disabling impacts from pre-menopa...

04.13.2021

Nebraska Omaha

“I was experiencing severe, disabling impacts from pre-menopa...”

I was experiencing severe, disabling impacts from pre-menopausal hormonal imbalances (early luteal phase defect) and none of the many treatments that I tried among standard FDA approved medicines helped. In fact, most of them made things worse. Luckily, I found a doctor that provides personalized medicine services, and compounded bioidentical hormone therapy completely resolved the problematic symptoms, dramatically improving my quality of life. Prior to trying the compounded medications, which are not covered by my insurance provider, I tried normal prescription drugs - they simply weren't as effective and didn't lead to appropriate hormone levels as established by blood testing. While the standard hormone therapy drugs may work for many people, they do not meet everyone's needs. Losing access to compounded hormone therapy would be a crisis for me and many others, and is also critical as a component of personalized medicine more broadly.

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.