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Maru Kitteh

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7. Short version, a very BADLY designed study scared women away from life-saving
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:00 PM
Nov 2025

and particularly QUALITY-of-.life-saving, health-saving medications and treatments for an entire generation.

The WHI (Women’s Health Initiative) study erroneously drew the conclusion that women who sought to treat menopause, save their sex lives, their bones, their joints, their hearts and their brains from the ravages of estrogen starvation were surely giving themselves cancer. Consequently, hormone replacement therapy all but dissapeared as an option for women in this phase of life. We were told to suck it up and suffer. Lie back, look at the ceiling and use more lube. Take antidepressants. Take a spin class. Take osteoporosis drugs that actually cause osteonecrosis of the jaw and femoral fractures.

Now they will be removing the black box warning that caused us to raise a generation of doctors that made women feel like shit for wanting to use this medication. Huge numbers refused to prescribe it at all Most of them would only “allow” you to use the tiniest doses possible, for the shortest amount of time possible and would constantly badger you to stop using it. Women are now terrified of it.

It was insane, and i hope this is the beginning of the end of it. The WHI did real harm to millions upon millions of women. It’s long past time for it to be disgraced

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He's delirious again. Dave Bowman Nov 2025 #1
The FDA Will Strip the Misleading Safety Warning From Hormone Therapy. Here's What This Means for You cbabe Nov 2025 #2
Thanks a kennedy Nov 2025 #5
Wow, so it's the broken clock being correct twice a day type of thing AZJonnie Nov 2025 #3
Video: demmiblue Nov 2025 #4
OMG!!!!!! a kennedy Nov 2025 #6
Short version, a very BADLY designed study scared women away from life-saving Maru Kitteh Nov 2025 #7
I KNOW, my Dr only let me be on it for 5 years......I'M STILL HAVING HOT FLASHES AND NIGHT SWEATS!!! a kennedy Nov 2025 #9
You are likely still able to benefit. 75 is no longer an automatic no. Maru Kitteh Nov 2025 #10
I have actually sat and cried over the injustice done to your generation of women, Maru Kitteh Nov 2025 #11
You can get biologicals on Amazon now womanofthehills Nov 2025 #14
OTC bioidentical hormone creams are cosmetic ONLY, and will not raise systemic levels Maru Kitteh Nov 2025 #18
Bio-identical hormones are available now womanofthehills Nov 2025 #8
To split hairs, natural homones were *extracted* from livestock urine, ovaries/testes etc. where they were present. eppur_se_muova Nov 2025 #17
There was a study some fifty years ago that found that HRT increased the risk of breast cancer iemanja Nov 2025 #12
I know, back in the day, my female PA told me, nope, ya can only have these for the next year and then it's over. a kennedy Nov 2025 #13
What else biological hormones help with womanofthehills Nov 2025 #15
Shut up. No, sorry, when I say that it's like back in the day when it was popular......but damn. a kennedy Nov 2025 #16
Go for the patch! It's safer than oral estrogen and SO EASY to do. Changed my life. Maru Kitteh Nov 2025 #19
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