Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

To prevent all cancers? It is an undisputed fact that HRT increases risk of breast cancer.

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Anonymous wrote:This was the first ever FDA hearing on menopause. Let that sink in. Far overdue.

right?!?!?!

Not getting political, but so glad this administration is taking the time to look into this.

So many don’t understand what peri women are going through, including their doctors or Obgyns.

I am mid fifties and my Obgyn wrote all of my symptoms off as , yup, that can happen when you get close to menopause, and offered no real support other than use more lotion and take magnesium.

Seeing the support on this forum from other women is amazing. Hopefully other women will be able to get a bit more help as they go through it than what I got.

Anonymous wrote:This was the first ever FDA hearing on menopause. Let that sink in. Far overdue.

right?!?!?!

Markary is anti-choice & there are concerns about why this interest in women's health care & FDA approvals & is this a sideways into reversing FDA approval of mifepristone.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

This is just false. I have a prescription testosterone cream sitting in the bedside table next to me while typing this. Am a woman.

That is called off label use

That’s fine. I use probably 2-3 drugs “off label.”

DP here, why did you put off label in scare quotes?

This was the first ever FDA hearing on menopause. Let that sink in. Far overdue.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

This is just false. I have a prescription testosterone cream sitting in the bedside table next to me while typing this. Am a woman.

That is called off label use

That’s fine. I use probably 2-3 drugs “off label.”

You understand that FDA is concerned with approved drugs for uses so they can be used on label, right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

This is just false. I have a prescription testosterone cream sitting in the bedside table next to me while typing this. Am a woman.

That is called off label use

That’s fine. I use probably 2-3 drugs “off label.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

This is just false. I have a prescription testosterone cream sitting in the bedside table next to me while typing this. Am a woman.

That is called off label use

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Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

This is just false. I have a prescription testosterone cream sitting in the bedside table next to me while typing this. Am a woman.

They were referring to there not being an fda approved product dosed for women. Right now women have to use a men’s product and take 1/10th the dose, which is hard to do with a cream, or they have to get a compounded product.

Anonymous wrote:lol yeah I am sure this FDA correctly represents “the science”

It’s not “this FDA”. It was a panel of external experts.

Anonymous wrote:I watched about half so far -- the science shows that estrogen should be prescribed for more menopausal women in their 40s and 50s to prevent heart disease, all cancers, osteoporosis, etc. Testosterone is currently not available for women, unless they are trans male, and it should be.

This is just false. I have a prescription testosterone cream sitting in the bedside table next to me while typing this. Am a woman.