Menopause — Your Body as a Clinical Trial

Can we all agree that doctors, menopause “experts”, etc., do not know squat about your menopause. Why you ask? Because we are all different.

Unless you are my exact twin, you do not know my menopause and I do not know yours.

I love being told by doctors “I’ve never heard of that symptom before”. Mostly referring to the fact that I have an elevated pregnancy hormone as part of my menopause. The HCG hormone.

Instead of focusing on our actual symptoms, doctors and researchers spend their time coming up with new names for our problems. Who was so opposed to the words Hot Flashes and Night Sweats that they had to give it a clinical name: Vasomotor symptoms. Huh.

We pay for this stuff.

Vasomotor symptoms include hot flashes, night sweats, heart palpitations, and changes in blood pressure. The television commercial for Veozah does not mention anything about heart palpitations or blood pressure but one of the side effects of the drug itself IS hot flashes.

Big sigh.

What is the point then?

Just about everything I have tried (I gave up BTW) for my hot flashes was experimental, therefore, I was using my body as my own clinical trial.

So, I decided to look up clinical trials for menopause and was taken to an article on the Controversial History of HRT Check this out from The National Library of Medicine (Full article if you follow the link)…