Compounded Medicines in Jeopardy - Act Now!
19th March 2007 by Rett Anderson Posted in Disease, Politics and Health, Drug/Vaccine Info
Please be aware that this action is promoted by pharmaceutical companies so that people will be forced to purchase medications from them only which can not be designed specifically to individual needs. Hence the compounding pharmacies are forced out of buisness and people have no option but to purchase an inferior product, increasing pharmceutical company profit and jeopardizing their optimum health……….Arrow
Action Alert! - Don’t Lose Your Access to Compounded Medicines - US
Tell Congress: Don’t Take Away Our Access to Compounded Medicines!
If you or a loved one relies on compounded medicines - e.g., bioidentical hormones, pediatric medicines, hospice treatments - or if you prescribe compounded medicines to your patients, please read on.
Take Action 1
A small but powerful group of senators is about to introduce legislation that would severely restrict and possibly deny your access to critical medications and create new onerous regulations for prescribers. Act today to protect access to compounded medicines!
If this legislation passes, federal regulators, not your doctor, will decide what medicines you can take. Do you really want to leave your customized medicine needs in the hands of bureaucrats in the government?
The so-called Safe Drug Compounding Act of 2007 would, among other things:
* Broadly eliminate the availability of many critical, commonly compounded medications that many patients rely on, such as bioidentical hormones for women, hospice care treatments for the terminally ill and customized medicines for children.
* Allow the federal government to determine when compounded medicines are needed - a decision that has always been and should always be made by doctors.
* Restrict the compounded medications your doctor can prescribe even if he or she determines you need them.
If you or someone you know depends on compounded medications, act now to stop this dangerous legislation!
What can you do?
1. Write your elected representatives in Congress. Use P2C2’s easy to use tool to write your members of Congress.
For Physicians, patients, caregivers and health advocates go to: www.iacprx.org/site/PageServer?pagename=P2C2001secBHRTatRisk
2. Also, please keep this in mind: It’s critical that you personalize your letter. Tell your own story. Tell them how you or your patients rely on compounded medicines and what your life or your patients’ lives would be like without them.
3. Tell a friend. Even if your friends and relatives don’t rely on compounded medicines themselves, they still have a loved one - you - who does. That’s their story to tell. Please encourage them to tell their representatives in Congress.
4. Tell more friends, patients and colleagues. The best weapon we have in this fight is you. You are the patients and physicians. Yours is the story that your representative in Congress cannot ignore. The more people we can get to unite in support of compounded medicines, the better our chances of winning will be.
Click on the “Compounding in Crisis” icon at www.savemymedicine.org/ today to learn more about the issues, take action, tell-a-friend and save patient access to compounded medicines. Thanks for taking action to defend your access to compounded medicines!
Take Action Now
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April 9th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
The natural compounding estrogen and progestrone have saved my life. My natural throid and hormones have given me back my life from legs so swollen that I couldn’t stand on them and blood plessure so high that it was at stroke level. I had already beeen to several doctors and much medication but with no success. I was a single mother with two children, what would have happened to them?
PLease don’t let this happen to all of us.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Before I was prescibed compounded bio-identical progesterone, I had trouble sleeping, weight gain, anxiety, night mares, hot flashes, and I was tired all the time. Bio-identical hormones have been a life saver for me, and the last thing I need is the government, or some big drug company, taking them away from me. Why should they have the right to get between my doctor and myself when it comes to decisions taht effect my health?
March 20th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I was told in the beginning by a GYN Physician that the pill or hormone medication should take care of any depleted hormones that I might have. Well, I searched for another MD and took the saliva test and found out just how depleted I really was. Since I have been on bio-identical hormones made specifically for my needs, I am no longer tired/exhausted. I feel great. My mind is clearer. I’m not lashing out at everyone. I’m sleeping through the night and when I wake up, I can get up and feel like I’ve had a great nights sleep. If Wyeth pushes this through, I will protest their product and find another means of getting what I need. As a nurse in the healthcare field, I am sick of Pharmaceutical Companies and Insurance Agencies trying to prescribe just how to treat patients. Their only design is to make money….it’s never about the patient.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
my dog takes a compounded medication to control her seizures. it has made a world of difference in her life. no more seizures! she takes potassium bromide.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
I was near a stress overload, when I discovered Bio-Identicals. I am my old self only better. I am 60 years old, self employed real estate broker, who had a complete hysterectomy at 41. I no longer have panic attacks, night sweats,dry skin and restless nights. Men (yes men) and Women should be given a choice on how we want to manage our health care not the Big Drug Companies and their lobbyists.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Veterinarians need an unimpeded access to compounding pharmacies to aid our patients special needs, so please do not do anything which will jeopardize this service to our profession.
Bill Lyman, DVM, owner of Durham Veterinary Clinics
June 15th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I have been using BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONE therapy for five years. My life changed completely. I can sleep better. My memory has improved, my weight improved also. Everything about my health changed thanks to Bio-Identical Hormone therapy. It will be an absolute crime to remove this therapy from being available to us. Why change or remove something that WE KNOW FOR SURE IS WORKING AND HELPING PEOPLE? Please stop the threats of wanting to remove this amazing therapy from us. Let support and encourage those who are suffering daily with symptoms that are devastating to families and affects our society also and let them know this therapy is A GOD-SENT THERAPY. Thank you so much for listening and NOT taking away from us.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Please go to this site to voice your protests:
www.iacprx.org/site/PageServer?pagename=P2C2001secBHRTatRisk