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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why all of you are getting worked up over this. You’re free to ingest as much Tylenol as you wish while pregnant. 
It’s still legal.[/quote]

At what point do these recommendations affect what insurance companies will cover or doctors' liability for compliant or non-compliant advice?[/quote]

lol DCUM freaking out that Tylenol won’t be covered by insurance. Chefs kiss. [/quote]

It's not about insurance coverage. It's about misleading information -- deliberately wrong information.

Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. The other options OTC are not, especially past the 30 week time. And untreated fever in pregnancy really IS connected to autism.[/quote]

Tylenol is not “safe”. That’s the problem. Doctors should be telling people it’s the “safe-est” option available for pregnant women but to use sparingly and only when really needed, such as to reduce high fever. We live in a paternalistic society where doctors leave out this nuance b/c they want to steer patients a certain way. It’s true on a number of things. The medical community needs to be more transparent with patients and empower us to make our own decisions.[/quote]

You need to stop fetishizing women's pain and telling them that suffering makes them holy.

The Handmaid's Tale was not an instruction manual. We knew you were going to do this. [/quote]

Nice try but I’m a woman and capable of making my own decisions. Doctors not providing the full picture is infantalilizing and unethical.[/quote]

What is your evidence that doctors are not providing the full picture? Nothing has really changed. Guidance has always been to take minimum dose only if/as minimally as needed and that remains the guidance from ACOG (and was the guidance when I was pregnant). The FDA letter to healthcare providers issued this week still says evidence is mixed and acetaminophen remains the preferred analgesic in pregnancy. Thus far, while some studies show an impact, others do not and the impact is minimized when confounds are controlled for. Most notably, the correlation seems to disappear when accounting for siblings - women who used for one pregnancy but not the other.

Sounds like you have some personal prior experience that bothered you? [/quote]

Yes, in general I feel like doctors push certain drugs and approaches without providing full context. Lots of firsthand experience with this across a range of things. [/quote]

Well using your same logic, I am quite upset about the White House press release and conference because it did not provide the full picture on research on Tylenol nor on other things like Hep B. They cherry picked the studies used for Acetaminophen and left out two major ones that go against their argument. They provide no info on the rationale and data for why Hep B is given at birth. By your own logic, you should be quite angry at the current admin. [/quote]

I agree with you. Only difference is I think the press conference wouldn’t have been necessary if doctors weren’t pushing this “Tylenol is safe” narrative. [/quote]

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