Hello! I am a 67 year old woman in great health, married long term, have three married children, and now ten grandchildren. I have been taking bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (HRT) from a compounding pharmacy for at least twenty years. I entered menopause early so thought something was wrong with me because I felt so unwell. I went to multiple doctors with no answers, until I finally found one a few years later who tried me on bio-identical HRT. (Low dose estrogen, progesterone and testosterone). It changed my life! It very quickly remedied the many symptoms I had such as severe hot flashes, sleeplessness, weight gain, anxiety, depression, and sexual side effects. My doctor orders a blood lab annually to check my hormone levels and make sure they stay in balance. I have felt more stable in these past twenty years than at any other time in my life. I can wholeheartedly endorse bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, as I have tried going off of it two times through the years to see what would happen and my symptoms began returning both times. Bio-identical hormones are a total game changer for me (and my husband) and I sincerely hope that their use will not become restricted! Thank you for your time!
Mary Ann Clair

CBHT has helped me a lot. I have way more energy and my mood is 10 times better than it has been in years. I am able to plan with my children and not feel exhausted. I actually want to be around people. I don't shay or get hateful easily anymore.

CBHT gives me lots of energy. It also helps with my night sweats a hot flashed where they are little 40 none. I greatly appreciate my doctor once of staff for always moring sore. I have to best medication care! I love them dearly.

I tried several replacement therapies offered to be large pharma. None worked expert for cementing. Then that medicine was taken off the market. I tried the hormone pellets 5 years ago. This BHRT changed my life! I sleep better have more muscle density; my skin looks refreshed and no more hot flashes. My life quality would be dramatically changed for the worse if bio-identicals we are not available.

Has helped to regulate the mood swings, hot flashes, tiredness, sleeplessness, which positively affected my general well-being.

I had fibroids that left me anemic so after many holistic attempts at healing them I had my uterus removed. I have had terrible hot flashes brain fog crying and weight gain not to mention countless sleepless nights .I was crying one day and my son and husband came in my room and I said I need help. Not all women experience the same severity of symptoms but these are very real and the quality of your life can be affected . The medicine I take to replace my estrogen
Levels really helps me and I believe and trust my Doctor and pharmacist to guide me and help me have a smoother transition in this time of my life. Please consider the millions of women that need this help to function and feel whole .
Sincerely,
Valentina

- Reduced hot flashes - Much more mellow according to my husband. - less irritable - Improve stamina - Increased sex drive

BHRT balanced my hormones and restored my health and vitality when no other protocol (after years of trying) would. I want to stay healthy and vital as I age and believe I will as long as BHRT is available to me

The compounded thyroid medicine prescribed by my doctor is perfect for me. I feel good and my energy and thyroid labs are stable with this treatment. It's an important part of my health balance.

I don't even know where to begin. I was feeling horrible. I was tired. I couldn't think straight. I need to work now more than ever due to covid. I run a business and I need to be sharp and at my best. I wasn't able to function or sleep. My husband keep asking me what was wrong with me. My joint pain was getting worse and staying active was difficult. I had to stop doing all the things I loved. I only started BHRT 5 months ago. In the first 2 weeks, I felt happy. I can't describe it but my old self was coming back. Everything in my life changed. I had energy. I was working out every day. My joint pain wasn't as bad and I've been sleeping like an angel 8 hours a night. The benefits that I have gained are irreplaceable and I can't do without it. I never want to go back. Please don't take away these amazing supplements. It literally will be the death of me in every way.
Regards,
Cheryl Simon

I have been a medical disaster most of my life. Luckily I was blessed to have 2 beautiful children before my uterus decided it no longer wanted to be a part of me any longer. Due to my autoimmune disorders and medications my ovaries shut down and my body also stopped producing testosterone. I didn't realize a woman even needed that to exist. After walking into walls and forgetting my name, a kind Nurse Practitioner decided to ask if I would be ok with doing some testing. Finding out that I had no natural hormones left in my body I needed something to replace them ASAP. With all of the medications I currently take, adding chemical hormones would undoubtedly cause cancer, so we opted for natural. I'm not 100% and never will be but at least I am not falling into walls any longer and I can respond when people talk to me again. I'm so sick of people not taking these things seriously. The human body is complicated and everyone needs specialized doses to truly get the treatments they need. This goes for everything.

I am a registered nurse and my choice is to see an integrative doctor, who deals with functional and traditional medicine. I have been using bioidentical pellet hormone therapy, along with oral progesterone since 2017. After much research, I have found this to be the safer and best route for me. I would never use synthetic hormones due to the side effects. It's bioidentical or nothing. BHT has been a lifesaver for me. For years I struggled with no libido, painful sex, dryness, sadness, brain fog, weight problems, fatigue, diagnosis of thyroid disease, adrenal dysfunction and anxiety, hair loss, etc. Not having sex alone, can be a big problem in a marriage, too. So, the idea that the FDA would ban BHT or make it difficult to obtain, because a study was done and paid for by the FDA, is in my opinion, is a very poorly thought out study, that needs much more research. I also feel that the FDA needs to take into consideration that today, conventional medicine alone is not enough. Functional medicine makes much more sense and needs to be incorporated in the traditional medicine world. I'm paying so much more out of pocket for integrative medicine because much of it is not covered by insurance, including my BHT. I will not go back to total traditional medicine because the science behind functional medicine is so right on. I have done much reading and research. In my opinion, our system is too powered by the big pharmaceutical companies and so many of their medications that cause so many side effects that are harmful to our bodies and cause us to use other medications to take care of the side effects of the first medication that a person is taking. The cycle just keeps going. I believe in being able to make the best choices for myself, including a good diet, exercise, and BHT. It took me years to find the answers and the right kind of doctors to help me. My symptoms have dissipated since starting my therapy and I don't want to go backwards with my health. Shame on you, FDA, for even considering toying with my life. You need to involve the everyday people, doctors, who actually deal with compounded hormones, and do real research that involves more than a flawed study that has been paid for by the FDA!! Because of compounded hormone therapy, I am able to function normally now. That took years of my life to find the best therapy!

After chemo treatments, I prematurely went through menopause and found that regular HRT caused more issues. But when I started the Bio-identicals, I experienced success and even went on to use them for my thyroid replacements. Not once have I regretted the decision to switch to Bio-identical hormone therapy.

The biggest menopausal symptom for me was my lack of physical energy. I'm a big hiker/backpacker, but I was dragging when it came time to do my favorite activities. My mind/spirit were excited to be out on the trail, but I had to physically force my way through it. I was fatigued all the time. A low dose of bioidentical hormones prescribed by my naturopath made me feel like myself again. I was resistant at first, but I feel without this treatment I would be much less active and therefore much less healthy, and likely depressed as well. Please save access to this important treatment.

After menopause I was feeling tired,, started having a foggy memory, gained weight and had a loss of sex drive. Once I started the bio identical hormone treatment, my symptoms lessened and I am feeling better. They also help strengthen my bones as I get older.

Hormone replacement has helped me maintain a balance with sleep, energy, vaginal discomfort and mood. Having celiac, the need for hormone replacement was vital to balancing out all my other hormones. Medical providers understand the need to be able to treat their patients and the benefits. Insurance and the FDA are not equipped to know the multiply reasons hormone replacement and the use of bio identical hormones on every persons unique situation. Stopping the ability for people like me to get hormone replacement is wrong on many levels.

I have early menopause due to endometriosis. My endometriosis caused me to need to adopt in order to bring children into our family. I have 4 children. They are 11, 8, 2, and 2. They keep me very busy!!

As my youngest two were joining our family, I began experiencing menopause symptoms. It was excruciating and miserable to be dealingwith that, while teaching and taking care of my children, especially my two youngest!

I tried for awhile to see if my symptoms would smooth out, but they did not.

What a great relief it was to start cBHT. I no longer have hot flashes with nausea, exhaustion, and weakness. I can be a Mom with new vigor.

Please don't take my cBHT away!

-Elena

I have suffered from hormonal imbalances since the age of 12, I am now 47. As a teen and young adult I was put on synthetic hormones but they made me feel sick, impotent and left me too fatigued to go to school or function so I stopped taking them. They also gave me crippling migraines. Without compounded hormones I was left suicidally depressed. My periods were were so painful I could not work several days out of every month. I lost countless hours of productivity to menstrual pain and all of my 20s to hormone related depression. At 42 I was put on compounded hormones and it changed my life. No longer was I suicidal or depressed, my periods became manageable, I was able to function again instead of sleep for 12 hours a day. I regained my libido and at 47, I feel more feminine than I did at 25. I am no longer suicidal and I am rarely depressed, Please don’t take away this life saving, transformative treatment from women. Synthetic hormones do not work for all bodies and can make you severely sick if you are sensitive to them. We need this life saving treatment.

I had tried two different thyroid medications for months each before moving to a compounded T3/T4 specially made for me. The difference was extremely noticeable. I felt like myself again on the compounded thyroid medication! I no longer felt medicated--my body was getting exactly what it needed to function properly. Compounding has also allowed my doctor to meet the needs of *my* body as it went through pregnancy and post-partum by making slight alterations to my compound. My body isn't the same a everyone else's, why does my medication need to be?