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Bob Mizek-Menopause for men's avatar

Great post.

Thanks to the flawed WHI study both my wife and her best friend were taken off estrogen years ago. My wife suffered with hot flashes but her best friend suffered with hot flashes AND depression AND anxiety. Neither got estrogen again when they needed it most. My wife toughed through the hot flashes. Her friend was prescribed anti-depressants and tried various ones until she hit on one that MASKED the true problem: low estrogen. Why weren’t they prescribed estrogen even later when the WHI study was “debunked”? It’s because doctors didn’t keep up and believed that estrogen use was dangerous. Here in the USA the FDA still requires that vaginal estrogen carry a “black box” warning that makes no sense. This results in less than 10% of women who could benefit from using Estradiol cream NOT using the product. So instead they suffer with UTI’s, painful sex, or give up on sex entirely. Tragic.

Keep writing Robyn. The world needs you!

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Priscilla Harvey's avatar

This is so helpful! Thank you.

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