Experts warn of long term health implications. As in prescribing being ahead of or outside the available evidence. I wonder if they know about the young women 😞www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/05/prescribing-of-testosterone-for-middle-aged-women-out-of-control?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Prescribing of Testosterone for middle aged women out of control The Guardian
Runskiyoga · 05/07/2024 21:09
Truthlikeness · 05/07/2024 21:50
Well, quite 🙄
Though as a perimenopausal women, I'd love to see more research into its use effectiveness as part of HRT.
Runskiyoga · 05/07/2024 21:09
Experts warn of long term health implications. As in prescribing being ahead of or outside the available evidence. I wonder if they know about the young women 😞www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/05/prescribing-of-testosterone-for-middle-aged-women-out-of-control?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Kai125 · 05/07/2024 23:35
Fucking hell! What a load of shite!!
No one knows the long term effects on women cause nobody gave a fuck about doing studies on middle aged women until recently when it was realised there could be money in it!!
Men who use high-dose testosterone [to build muscle] in gyms get cardiomyopathy – where the muscle in the heart becomes weak and can’t pump – and some of them die, so it’s not nothing.”
This quote made me laugh. Fuck all to do with the tint pea sized amount we put on a day!! Plus we're not men!!
Testosterone is a god send. My sex drive is back to what it was in my 20's. I'd give 10 years up in my life rather than stop it!!
QueenBitch666 · 06/07/2024 01:56
Testosterone gel for 3 years here after hundreds spent on private conversations. It's done Fuck all for my sex drive. Lots of hormonal testosterone induced spots tho 😡
Janie143 · 05/07/2024 23:56
Unbelievable that there isn't similar concern for young women, some still teens, taking larger doses for longer.
RufustheFactualReindeer · 06/07/2024 09:11
My friend needed Testosterone for some reason (should have listened harder 🤔)
the dr said that she couldn’t prescribe it for whatever the ‘health’ reasons were but she could prescribe it to increase her sex drive…which struck me as not being ‘interested’ in the potential health benefits for the my friend but more the potential sex benefits for her male partner
Riva5784 · 06/07/2024 09:33
The point is, the evidence is weak, except for improving sex drive.
It's not a coincidence that the research done was about sex drive. It benefits men, assuming the women have male partners. It's not just the NHS, misogyny in medicine is systemic and worldwide.
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RufustheFactualReindeer · 06/07/2024 09:44
I sort of take your point but surely women also benefit from reviving a flagging sex drive? I feel sad about mine, not just for DH but for us as a couple
my friend does not have a partner, she was not ‘allowed’ testosterone for her health benefits just to benefit a on existent male pertner
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