jlf1961
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Some years ago, Pfizer pharmaceuticals developed the wonder drug Viagra.
This was followed by GlaxoSmithKline discovering Cialis, which was developed by Icos, and manufactured and marketed by Eli Lilly pharmaceuticals.
Both drugs have the possible side effect of abnormal vision, sometimes temporary and sometimes permanent.
Now, after this was discovered, warning labels were put in the drug packaging and the developers went back and began research into making the drug safer for men to use.
This is not a bad thing.
Now, on the flip side.
Hormonal birth control uses the synthetic hormones progestin and a synthetic estrogen.
These primary egg and implantation inhibitors have not changed since the pill was first introduced.
Now the side effects of hormonal birth control (in no particular order) can be blood clotting problems, acne, stroke, and a higher risk of cervical cancer, breast cancer and weight gain.
Now, here are my questions.
The developers of the erection dysfunction drugs went back and spent billions trying to make the drugs less likely to produce the harmful side effects, and one result was the timed release formula that is an option today.
Now since the first signs that hormonal birth control can actually be life threatening, there has been a number of studies to find out how often and why, and not by the companies that developed the drugs.
While no final word on why has been agreed on, there are a growing number that feel the synthetic hormones are at the root cause.
However, there has been no real effort on the part of pharmaceutical companies to either find a safer alternative or even to make the drugs safer.
Although a study performed by Harvard medical some years ago found that using the form of estrogen found in mare urine has the same birth control effect without the side effects.
Now, it is a fact that the synthetic form of estrogen used in birth control is derived from this source, it was altered by the developer to gain a patent, thus the term synthesized.
With that being said, please consider the options posted.
And the reason this has become an issue is not the abortion question, but the simple fact that a long time friend was recently diagnosed with both breast and cervical cancers, and her doctor came to the conclusion that since the only risk factor in her life was 14 years of taking birth control pills, she is one of the small number of women that should not have taken the pill.
Honest question (because I honestly don't know the answer), what is the rate at which the negative side effects occurred for ED-treating drugs vs hormonal BC medicines? If the risks of side effects are quite low for hormonal BC, but the risks were quite high for the ED meds, I can see why they'd go after reducing the ED med side effects.
The risk of side effects from hormonal based birth control is beginning to look like they are cumulative, meaning the longer the woman is on them the higher the chance of a harmful side effect.
But then there are other studies showing that a few distinct groups of women are more prone than others. The problem with these studies, is that these groups do not seem to fall to into a specific category, such as ethnicity.
It has only really been in the last decade or two that any real serious study has been made, and funding for any real in depth studies are limited, because as you said, the over all risk is not that great.
The friend I mentioned had been on birth control for just under 14 years, after having one set of twins and one set of triplets. The insurance carrier she had at the time would fully cover birth control pills, but any surgical based prevention feel under the category of 'elective' surgery. (another big beef I have with insurance carriers, but not just in birth control, but other so called elective surgeries)
As far as the 'at risk' groups, her doctor compared it to a known phenomena involving MS.
Multiple Sclerosis, has shown up in clusters. One such cluster involved some professional football players which trained in Arizona. The only abnormal incident involved the fact that the practice field had been fertilized with treated human and dairy waste. But other athletic fields had been as well and no one had developed the disease.
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