Hi girls,
https://www.vagifem.com/
“The most commonly reported side effects of Vagifem® include: headache, breast pain, irregular vaginal bleeding or spotting, stomach/abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea and vomiting, hair loss, fluid retention, and vaginal yeast infection.â€
They can't say it any plainer than that, can they!
BeaR.
Yes we know this - others have reported that the Vagifem site gives this info.
However the actual official medical account at the link I gave does not mention it whatsoever, so actually we don't know the circumstances of these side effects. The medical info gives results from clinical trials and then gives other side effects from what they term "post-marketing experience" which of course as you know is anecdotal.
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Post-marketing experience:
In addition to the above mentioned adverse drug reactions, those presented below have been spontaneously reported for patients being treated with Vagifem 25 micrograms and are considered possibly related to treatment. The reporting rate of these spontaneous adverse reactions is very rare (<1/10,000 patient years)."
Even so hair loss is not mentioned, so I am puzzled why the (American) site even mentions it but as there is no scientific info I would suggest that this also could be anecdotal.
I mean logically - it is very unlikely (hair loss) and if it does occur would be very rare I would suggest, as there is such minimal systemic absorption and therefore very little of the hormone gets into the system to do anything other than where it is intended ie the vaginal tissues.
In the absence of any data or scientific investigation/explanation into this, my bet is that actually many women who use this on its own as VA begins to take effect and who do not use any othe HRT, actually experience haor loss due to advancing menopause and
reduced oestrogen rather than the Vagifem - but have attributed it to this.
I mean never say never - but I wouild expect any actual effect to be extremely rare - that is my understanding anyway!
I think those who want to use it should stop worrying about heir and get on with sorting out their VA! If you don;t want to use Vagifem use estriol, and maybe consider systemic HRT but not with an androgenic progestogen if they have hair issues.
Hurdity x
