Menopause is the physiological cessation of menstrual cycles associated with advancing age in species that experience such cycles. Menopause is sometimes referred to as change of l...
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FDA Goes After 'Natural' HRT Claims
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Compounding Pharmacies Told to Stop Marketing 'Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy'
Jan. 9, 2007 -- Federal regulators warned several pharmacy companies Wednesday to stop marketing so-called "natural" hormone replacement therapy, calling their sales to women "false and misleading." The FDA took aim at seven compounding pharmacy companies that it says use a product called estriol in reformulated hormone replacement therapy for women. The agency warned the pharmacies to cease marketing HRT containing estriol and to stop making claims that their products are "natural" or "bioequivalent" to standard HRT. "Estriol has not been approved by the FDA in any dose for any use," says Debra Autor, director of the office of compliance in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Autor says the agency has "no reliable scientific evidence" that estriol is safe and effective and that claims made by the seven pharmacies, mostly in Internet marketing, are "false and misleading." read more here http://www.webmd.com/menopause/new... Posted on 01/10/08, 07:01 am |
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so does anyone here use estriol?
what will you do if you can't buy it anymore? will you switch to estradiol? 
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Does this product help menopausal women?I have started taking a herbal combination for menopause symptoms and an antidepressant and it works wonderfully. I no longer have intense hot flashes,sleeping better, bloating has gone,joint aches and pains gone, headaches gone. It has made such a positive difference to my life.
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Oh this issue (NOT ANYONE HERE) just pisses me off... Of COURSE it hasn't been approved, because BHRT is mixed patient-specific and the big drug companies can't make money off individual ingredients and would rather send hor$e pee through your liver via pill. Do a wider internet search and find out that some of the comp pharms are compounding 'other stuff' too (mine does not), and the services of THOSE pharms might be best avoided. And it is possible that BHRT is getting picked on to help further the cau$e.
I'm not sure what's in my BHRT, I've been fortunate to not need it much in the last year, but I will ask my comp pharm about this Monday Jan. 14 and get back to everyone. It may take her a few days to get back to me. Just remember, when learning news like this, think first, who's losing money on the deal...
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