Germany: contraception, and what it actually costs here
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.
The advice on perimenopause in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.
I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Strongly agree. Cycle changes are documented.
The reflux was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.
Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 11–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.
the cycle tracking data matters, keep it private
the cycle tracking data matters, keep it private
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 57 weeks to accept.
Ireland here. Waited 19 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.
no cycle-tracking data with identifying details
You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.
Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
What are you comparing it against though?
the PCOS question is under-powered in trials
hormonal contraception interactions are speculative
hormonal contraception interactions are speculative
Adding to this: insulin resistance is doing more work than the comment implies.
No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
Slight fix: the number was 93.7, not 99.3. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.
PCOS and insulin resistance
Genuine question — what concentration were you at?
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with insulin resistance, not with what you concluded.
Disagree.
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
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