When my gynae said "utrogestan is well tolerated, its unusual that you dont get on with it" I said "not according to my menopause forum". Well....youd think I just insulted her mother.!!
So called "experts" dont seem to like the idea of "people power" or in this case ",women power" which we gain from being able to share experience and info.
And they do not like being challenged which is incredible when you think about it. It's a science. And science only progresses through ideas and research being challenged. It's at the very core of every single advance in medical history.
How do we know how many women have been sent away from their doctors for being "atypical" when it comes to HRT with no further investigation. It could be enough to warrant challenging the current guidelines, vagifem being a case in point, but we wont know as its not being reported and data is not being collected on it by each doc who has a patient reporting this. How can there then be an accurate overall picture.
To me it would stand to reason that. If a treatment is clinically trialled but then is prescribed exponentially to huge numbers of people then the "adverse" reactions may be far more than is reflected in the original trial.. Too simple?
Surely part and parcel of going into the medical profession is to accept and even actively require received wisdom to be constantly evolving . Otherwise we'd all be sitting here with leeches stuck all over us and being lobotomised with ice picks for PMS.
You realy got me started now