Anonymous wrote:I just don’t know why most women would need to “treat” a normal biological process.

(I say this as a post menopausal woman)

Same reason I didn't just let blood run down my leg before menopause. (I say this as a woman using HRT!)

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Anonymous wrote:I just talked about this yesterday with my ob/gyn. That label and study that caused it created unnecessary misery for many women.

This is the right move.

I'm mid-40s and feel terrible that my mom went through menopause in the early 2000s after the study that scared everyone away from MHT. A lot of unnecessary suffering.

I went through it.

“suffering” is a strong choice of words, but perhaps for some women it applies.

Things differ for different people. I never had PMS but I don’t doubt it exists and is unpleasant enough some women take BC to prevent having it.

I suffered so much more with PMS than I have menopause.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust anything RFK jr or trump says. This FDA is currently SUS so I’m seeing this as a red flag. If they promote it, I should not consider it.
If it was legitimately safe, Melania should have made the announcement. Woman to women.
I’ll wait until we have actual medical experts back in the FDA before I trust their advice.

+1

I don't get medical advice from TikTok or people with brain worms who have clearly parted with reality.

You won’t discuss this with your gynecologist? You’ll just wait around for the FDA at some point years in the future to maybe- just maybe- say something else?

Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust anything RFK jr or trump says. This FDA is currently SUS so I’m seeing this as a red flag. If they promote it, I should not consider it.
If it was legitimately safe, Melania should have made the announcement. Woman to women.
I’ll wait until we have actual medical experts back in the FDA before I trust their advice.

+1

I don't get medical advice from TikTok or people with brain worms who have clearly parted with reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I just talked about this yesterday with my ob/gyn. That label and study that caused it created unnecessary misery for many women.

This is the right move.

I'm mid-40s and feel terrible that my mom went through menopause in the early 2000s after the study that scared everyone away from MHT. A lot of unnecessary suffering.

I went through it.

“suffering” is a strong choice of words, but perhaps for some women it applies.

Things differ for different people. I never had PMS but I don’t doubt it exists and is unpleasant enough some women take BC to prevent having it.

I had a coworker who thought that menstrual cramps was a made up thing. She thought that because she never experienced them, then they didn’t exist. The same applies here. Someone’s personal experience doesn’t apply to everyone. I’m 51 and haven’t experienced anything menopausal yet but that doesn’t mean I think it doesn’t exist.

Mark Makary has written several popular books about Medical "truths" that have been discredited. I did some scraping around the internet and his concerns seem valid. I'm glad he's moving forward to make HRT available to American women if needed.

Not all of the Trump administration is a disaster. Makary is a very small bright spot. It doesn't outweigh the other crazies in power, but take the win where you can. Biden's FDA Commissioner was an industry sycophant. Makary has some big picture ideas backed by science.

Anonymous wrote:I’m gonna sound like a total idiot, but what does it help with? My mother is dead so I can’t ask her about her menopause journey. I’m late 40s and increasingly anxious, mood swings, low energy and joint pain. No issues down there with dryness or insomnia. My OB basically said come back when you start to feel worse. But what the heck does that mean?

Your ob is doing you a disservice. Everything you mentioned, hrt can help with!

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Anonymous wrote:I just talked about this yesterday with my ob/gyn. That label and study that caused it created unnecessary misery for many women.

This is the right move.

I'm mid-40s and feel terrible that my mom went through menopause in the early 2000s after the study that scared everyone away from MHT. A lot of unnecessary suffering.

I went through it.

“suffering” is a strong choice of words, but perhaps for some women it applies.

Things differ for different people. I never had PMS but I don’t doubt it exists and is unpleasant enough some women take BC to prevent having it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust anything RFK jr or trump says. This FDA is currently SUS so I’m seeing this as a red flag. If they promote it, I should not consider it.
If it was legitimately safe, Melania should have made the announcement. Woman to women.
I’ll wait until we have actual medical experts back in the FDA before I trust their advice.

This is why the right is talking about with "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

It's like the seinfeld episode where George does the opposite of his instincts.

Use your brain and make decisions one at a time.

My PCP recommends starting HRT when you start feeling hot flashes -- that's the sign.

Then your PCP is an idiot. Menopause not an emergency. Just because you feel hot flashes doesn’t mean you need to run and get HRT.

I’m not the PP but thanks rando internet poster.

I think I’ll stick with my doctor.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust anything RFK jr or trump says. This FDA is currently SUS so I’m seeing this as a red flag. If they promote it, I should not consider it.
If it was legitimately safe, Melania should have made the announcement. Woman to women.
I’ll wait until we have actual medical experts back in the FDA before I trust their advice.

This is why the right is talking about with "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

It's like the seinfeld episode where George does the opposite of his instincts.

Use your brain and make decisions one at a time.

My PCP recommends starting HRT when you start feeling hot flashes -- that's the sign.

Then your PCP is an idiot. Menopause not an emergency. Just because you feel hot flashes doesn’t mean you need to run and get HRT.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust anything RFK jr or trump says. This FDA is currently SUS so I’m seeing this as a red flag. If they promote it, I should not consider it.
If it was legitimately safe, Melania should have made the announcement. Woman to women.
I’ll wait until we have actual medical experts back in the FDA before I trust their advice.

This is why the right is talking about with "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

It's like the seinfeld episode where George does the opposite of his instincts.

Use your brain and make decisions one at a time.

My PCP recommends starting HRT when you start feeling hot flashes -- that's the sign.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust anything RFK jr or trump says. This FDA is currently SUS so I’m seeing this as a red flag. If they promote it, I should not consider it.
If it was legitimately safe, Melania should have made the announcement. Woman to women.
I’ll wait until we have actual medical experts back in the FDA before I trust their advice.

Trump doesn’t prescribe it for you. Talk to your doctor. You’re overcomplicating this.

Anonymous wrote:I’m gonna sound like a total idiot, but what does it help with? My mother is dead so I can’t ask her about her menopause journey. I’m late 40s and increasingly anxious, mood swings, low energy and joint pain. No issues down there with dryness or insomnia. My OB basically said come back when you start to feel worse. But what the heck does that mean?

I’m taking Prempro. It absolutely helps with the anxious feelings, mood swings and low energy.

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Anonymous wrote:I just talked about this yesterday with my ob/gyn. That label and study that caused it created unnecessary misery for many women.

This is the right move.

I'm mid-40s and feel terrible that my mom went through menopause in the early 2000s after the study that scared everyone away from MHT. A lot of unnecessary suffering.

Have you ever thought that 25 years later the formulation is gonna be very different and now it’s safer?

+1

The old version was made out of pregnant horse urine. The new one isn’t and is bioidentical. That’s not to say there are no risks but it’s much safer.

They also have bioidentical progesterone.

“Bio identical” isn’t a thing.

+1. The idea that “bioidentical” hormones are safer is promoted by internet quacks. Even your own exact estrogen made by your own body can be cancer promoting (this is why breast cancer rates go up after pregnancy, when estrogen levels are very high, and after perimenopause, when level spike on and off).

Anonymous wrote:I’m gonna sound like a total idiot, but what does it help with? My mother is dead so I can’t ask her about her menopause journey. I’m late 40s and increasingly anxious, mood swings, low energy and joint pain. No issues down there with dryness or insomnia. My OB basically said come back when you start to feel worse. But what the heck does that mean?

Fleeting hot flashes (you feel warm around your face). For me it was triggered by drinking wine.

Very tolerable.

Years past menopause, I did develop vaginal dryness that would have made intercourse painful. I think lubricants and vaginal estrogen are available to solve that.

Never took or needed systemic estrogen.