Please, please do not take away my compounded hormones. I have been on them in one form or another for years and they have helped greatly with my perimenopause and now are helping me with menopause. Yes, I have tried some FDA-approved hormones and have always gone back to the compounded hormones. The FDA-approved hormones that I have used in the past seemed like they had unnatural dyes in them. I try to avoid dyes and I am shocked that they would dye a hormone pill bright orange or make a suppository blue! And without going into too much detail, I have had unpleasant adverse reactions to one in particular FDA-approved hormone. I will not go back to using it again. I think I would rather go hormone-free before I would use that one again. On the flip side, I have not had ANY adverse reactions to compounded hormones nor do they add colors unnecessarily. To sum it up, I MUCH prefer compounded hormones vs. unnatural FDA-approved hormones. The compounded hormones just work better for me!