[Discussion] perimenopause is doing more work than we give it credit for
perimenopause is doing more work than we give it credit for. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Started logging the cycle in the same sheet as the dose. Three months later the pattern was obvious and it had been invisible before. The same dose genuinely feels different at different…
Trial populations for the major programmes were not designed around the questions this board asks most often, which is why the evidence base here is genuinely thinner rather than merely harder to find.
hair shedding follows the rate of loss, not the compound
perimenopause and this overlap in ways nobody has good data on
Pointing the contraception question at a pharmacist. They can answer it properly and we cannot.
Has this been raised with whoever prescribes?
Disagree — that is a general claim about absorption and the specific question needs a pharmacist rather than a board.
Not convinced by the attribution. That pattern tracks the cycle in your own log more closely than it tracks the dose.
Asked a pharmacist about the absorption question rather than the internet. Ten minutes, clear answer, done.
Correction: that trial did not enrol the population being discussed, so it cannot support the claim.
iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site
Agreed that the vocabulary here is imprecise and it causes people to answer different questions to the ones asked.