Thank you for reading my story. I've suffered migraines my whole life that became exponentially worse as menopause began. The cBHT was the magic cure. The headaches were not just reduced, they disappeared. This is a level of "normalness" I had never experienced. The pharmacist who compounds my hormones is a trusted part of my medical team. As a nurse, I understand the value of a competent medical team. It seems to me that if we are already regulating and licensing pharmacists, that means they have been adequately educated, trained, and confirmed by a government agency to be a specialist in their profession and craft. Why would they not be trusted by the FDA to perform the very tasks for which they are trained? Redirecting the compounding of something so personal and unique to each woman to a very impersonal pharmaceutical company seems like it would significantly reduce the ability to properly dose and treat a woman for her individual needs and likely increase costs, which would price many out of access. Please leave compounding in the hands of skilled pharmacists for all of those very good reasons.
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I have clients who are facing declining health on a daily basis without the option that compounded hormones offer. My health has greatly improved since taking compounded medications myself over the past couple of years. This is about choice in healthcare. We need our voices and our choices to be made known. Compounding is personalized, safe, and in demand.

I was very reluctant to accept the prescription from my doctor for compounded hormone therapy. I am SO very glad I did, and wish I had sooner. It has changed my life, and I now realize it will change my future, too with all its benefits of heart health, bone health, and breast health. It has even changed my marriage! We are both happier.

I was literally at the end of my rope. I told my story to half a dozen or more doctors and the only help I got was pain meds, or have a glass of wine at night, or taking a nice walk... I had severe and at times debilitating joint pain. I was unable to sleep which led to brain fog, irritability, mistakes at work... My period was so heavy and painful that I couldn't leave the house for 2 days and it would last for 10 to 12 days. I was severely anemic, eating a healthy iron-rich whole foods diet and taking supplements and nothing helped. Found a group that worked with bio-identical hormones and within a few weeks, I had my life back. The pain went away, the sleep came back and I was able to enjoy my life again. Please don't take this from the women who need it to LIVE!

I've been using compound hormones for the last 4 years and it has changed my life. I was sluggish, gaining weight, exhausted, and lost interest in normal activities and all of that changed once I started taking HRT. It would be detrimental to my health if Congress decided to restrict compound hormones.

After a hysterectomy in 2001, I began to take Rx hormone replacement therapy first as a patch and later as a cream the result was MULTIPLE breast lumps! Not to bore you with all the in-between but finally, one of my doctors suggested speaking with a compound pharmacist who in my mind saved my life! He figured out that I was estrogen dominant and was able to compound me a formula of HRT that best suited me and as a result NO breast lumps. Fast forward 22 years when a nurse practitioner decided to take me off the HRT...worth a try. The result...incontinence!. I went through multiple uncomfortable evaluations and tried multiple Rx with a urologist. In the end, it was decided that I should go back on my compounded HRT...the results were positive...no more incontinence, and no more breast lumps. If compounding HRT is no longer an option I don't know what I will do.

I have chosen to take cBHRT since 1997. I am a patient with breast and ovarian cancer in my family history. After suffering many miscarriages, the only hormone-related option my doctor would allow me to try was a low-dose bio-identical progesterone therapy. This was not commercially available. However, our local Compounding Pharmacist formulated a compound, especially for me. Three beautiful children later, I am happy to report I am cancer-free and now navigating menopause with the help of cBHRT. Having the option of cBHRT has allowed me to live life to the fullest and in excellent health. Please do what you can to allow women to have this choice available. A manufacturer cannot reproduce a personally tailored compounded prescription. A highly trained Compounding Pharmacist can and should. Thank you.

I started taking cBHT a couple of years ago because I was menopausal and had been suffering from mood swings, night sweats, anxiety, hot flashes, insomnia, and brain fog. After taking cBHT, I'm a whole new person physically and mentally. My life has been given back to me and I never want to be without cBHT.

I am a forty-eight year old cis female. About four years ago I started having symptoms that my body was moving toward menopause. Contrary to popular belief most women don’t simply stop having periods one day; for most of us, it’s like going through second puberty: heavier, more erratic periods, mood swings, brain fog, night sweats, irritability. This is because in many cases natural progesterone production falls off but the ovaries continue to produce estrogen unchecked, which leads to “estrogen dominance.” I’ve read this referred to as “the ovaries’ last hurrah.”

I first heard about it from a book published in the 1980’s called “No More Hot Flashes And Other Good News,” which my mother read when she was in my position 20 years ago. The author of that book, a female gynecologist, recommended bio-identical or compounded progesterone. This progesterone is chemically different from the synthetic progesterone, commonly known as progestin, found in birth control pills and in IUDs. Many women who have trouble with hormonal birth control have a bad reaction to progestin.

Unfortunately, the first doctor I saw four years ago seemed not to have heard of compounded progesterone treatment or pretended not to. She insisted it wouldn’t help me and tried to make me buy an IUD, or have my uterine walls cauterized, despite the fact that there was no medical reason for such extreme and expensive treatment.

I found a different doctor who promptly suggested compounded progesterone, which I take orally in liquid form. Prior to taking it, my periods had become so heavy I was anemic and having dizzy spells. I was waking every night with night sweats, which affected my sleep, which in turn affected my memory, attention, and emotional control at work.

Taking the compounded progesterone has improved my quality of life and that of my family, as well as my productivity at work. Restricting access to such a simple, harmless treatment would be detrimental to a great many women just when they are in their most productive work years.

I went through chemo for stage 4 cancer 14 years ago. After treatment was over I was not sleeping and was all over the place mentally. A year later I found a doctor that had my hormones tested. My hormone levels were zero. I had no hormones. I was prescribed compounded hormone therapy. It was a night and day difference. I was finally sleeping and starting to feel normal again. The chemo treatment put me into early menopause. So, I do and will continue to have my levels tested annually and will continue taking cBHT. I have tried going without them in the past and can tell the difference. My life and family's life wouldn't be the same if cBHT was not available.

When my ob/gyn suggested I go on BHRT for various symptoms I attributed to being post menopausal and part of the natural aging process, after first being on oral progesterone alone with unpleasant side effects, I said yes. I am now 77 years old, married to a wonderful man nine years my junior. It is heartening to feel vibrant, energetic, and be sexually active, in spite of some wrinkles, without discomfort or pain. I am monitored and blood tested every six months to see if my prescription needs any tweaking.
 I am just so thankful that I have the opportunity, through my healthcare providers, to be healthy and age gracefully.

After I went through menopause I felt like something was terribly wrong with me. I had previously been quick-minded, had plenty of energy, slept through the night, and desired intimacy with my husband. But several years later, I had just lost the me that I knew. My OBGYN encouraged me to have my hormones tested and it confirmed what he had expected. My body had stopped making nearly all of my natural hormones. I was testing far below the normal range for my age on every test. He recommended compounded hormones--natural hormones that were specifically compounded for me and my specific needs based on my testing. These hormones have changed my life and have brought me back to the me I had always known. I will be devastated if I can no longer have access to these. They are as medically necessary for my health and well-being as any other medicine people must take. I have my blood/hormones tested annually and we make adjustments as needed. Please do NOT take away our access to these important and necessary compounds.

After going through fertility treatment to get pregnant, my hormones were a mess. I couldn't sleep, I was depressed, and anxious. I was in pain. I had osteoporosis. I found a doctor who started me on bio-identical hormone therapy which changed my life. I am a happy person and I no longer have osteoporosis. Please don't take away these types of medications. Please don't take away my right to choose. Please don't allow this type of therapy to become obsolete

Compounded hormones saved me and my marriage. I tried it all and nothing worked until we found bio-identical hormones. Within a short time I was sleeping again, my mood was balanced, and I got my sex life back again. These help so many people. Please don't take this away. Thank you!

Because of medical issues, I experienced problems in menopause. Synthetic hormone prescriptions didn't help. I tried the compounding hormones and my problems stopped. They worked as no others did!
I have been on them for years and have no side effects. They are a true gift to be available to us. I pray that the FDA allows them to continue.

I don’t where I would be without the help of compounded hormones! I suffered greatly from anxiety, sleepless nights, terrible hot flashes, and severe depression. No amount of counseling or any other hormone could have helped me the way my compounding hormones have. I finally have a normal life, free of anxiety, depression, and hot flashes I also get to have a decent night's sleep. It’s as if I got a second lease on life. I also had a cat years ago that needed a compounded thyroid medicine and she was able to live 2 more years with quality. Our lives matter!!!! Cutting pharmacies like these would create more problems, not resolve them! We need good medicine and this is the solution!

I have been taking BHRT since 2013 to treat the sudden onset of menopause at 40 years old due to a total abdominal hysterectomy and oophorectomy (endometrial cancer). Without these hormones, I would not be able to function. Prior to taking BHRT, I struggled with severe brain fog, debilitating depression, hot flashes, night sweats, sleep deprivation, bodily changes, and a drastic decline in overall quality of life. BHRT gave me my life back and the ability to live a productive, active life and feel like a woman again. I would suffer immensely without them.

I switched to compounded hormones prescribed to me by my Naturopathic doctor, after using a synthetic hormone that gave me side effects. Please continue to allow compounded hormones. This is necessary so people like me who have side effects with conventional medications have an alternative that works! Thank you.

Before I started taking Compounded hormones I had horrible night sweats that left me unable to sleep through the night. I would get up tired and had a hard time staying awake. Since I started taking compounded hormones, my quality of life has changed so much, I am able to sleep and I have the energy to do my work plus my mind is more clear. I cannot imagine having to go back to those days before I found the wonderful doctor who prescribed the Compounded hormones I am using now.