2005P-0411
  

  
 Seeking FDA Actions to Counter Flagrant Violations of the Law by Pharmacies Compounding Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy Drugs

  


  

  

  


  

  


  

  


  

  
FDA Comment Number : 
  

  
EC400
  



  

  
Submitter : 
  

  
Ms. Jillian Mills
  

  
Date & Time: 
  

  
01/26/2006 06:01:06
  



  

  
Organization : 
  

  
Ms. Jillian Mills
  



  

  
Category : 
  

  
Individual Consumer
  



  

  
Issue Areas/Comments 
  


  

  


  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
GENERAL
  


  

  



  

  
 I should have the right to chose what I put into my body.  Insurance does not pay for these hormones which mean that the women who use them must pay more than what they would for an insurance copay for alternative synthetic hormone therapy.  The women using bio identicals are generally women who have educated themselves on hormone therapy and don't feel safe undergoing the risks associated with the synthetics.  To ban bio identical hormones would force women to either undergo undo health risks as well as cause them undo emotional stress and or forgo hormone therapy altogether which would cause many to have an extreme drop in their quality of life not to mention health risks associated with not having sufficient hormone levels.  Let us choose how we protect and maintain our bodies.  Many would not need hormone therapy had some scapel-happy doctor heeded the oath of "First do no harm...." rather than playing God and not caring about the consequences for their patients when they hack out perfectly healthy organs.  Please don't add insult to injury by taking even more of our choices away.  It is clearly a financial agenda on behalf of Wyeth to make this petition.  I hope that when all is said and done, the quality of life for so many women will supercede the almighty dollar.  There is only one right thing to do here.  Just think of the women who will suffer when they are unable to get the relief they are getting currently and remember Wyeth's number one priority..$...        

Since the 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) which demonstrated that Wyeth's 

products, Premarin and Prempro, caused a significant increase in breast 

cancer, blood clots to the lungs, heart attacks and strokes, Wyeth has seen 

a 68% decline in sales of Premarin Family products between 2002 - 2004. 

Tens of thousands of women have forsaken the Premarin family of drugs for 

natural, biologically identical hormones prepared by compounding pharmacies.