Wyeth wants to keep the market cornered on "helping" women with hormone imbalances, as keep be seen in this FDA docket. Like, they manufacture hormones from horse's urine, which women afflicted with menopausal symptoms take so they can enjoy those symptoms later in life, when they're not quite so busy. And now they want the FDA to crack down on compounding pharmacies that make individualized hormone blends for these women, derived from plants, custom blended on the basis of hormone-levels testing.
A foot note in the complaint said that the only reliable way of testing a woman's hormone levels is by blood sample. I think they've gone from horse p*** to horse s***, if you'll pardon my starry French. See, I've had my hormone levels tested - by saliva. A single blood sample is about as useful as asking a woman once a month whether she's hungry. If you check my estrogen levels on day 20 of my cycle, they'll look pre-menopausal. Trick is, you have to do a sample every 2 or 3 days, graph the results to see how your hormones levels are fluctuating ... which they do, naturally.
Ask a woman on Premarin or any of those other classic HRTs if they had their estrogen levels tested, blood or otherwise, prior to being prescribed these conventional treatments for their menopausal symptoms. Ask them if they had it retested before (or even after) their dosage was increased. Ask them ... then let me know the answer, in a comment.
Let's call this a survey.
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