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I just started taking Premarin 1.25... I don't really take medicine.. I have some concerns. I've heard that it makes you moody and gain weight.. I've always had a small figuire and really not trying to gain much weight..What are some other side effects I should worry about
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Suki_girl eboni32963
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Why we're you given Premarin? There are other HRT options. It seems an odd choice for someone who doesn't like taking medicines seeing as it carries so many risks due to it being conjugated horse oestrogen taken from the urine of pregnant mares. It's your choice of course, but as a vegetarian I would be morally against it, bearing in mind what appalling conditions the mares are kept in. Sorry to be so negative but I find it disgusting the way we treat animals for our own gain and it's not as if horse oestrogen is the only choice - there are other options. I don't understand why Premarin is still available.
sheryl37154 eboni32963
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Suki - I agree with you. It should be banned. It should be a criminal offence to prescribe premarin because of cruelty to women it is prescribed to.
It is the drug that caused all the problems as often referred to by drs and they then apply the outcomes to every other hormone supplement including those which are bio-identical to a woman's hormones.
Eboni, please check out estradiol hrt, in particular transdermal which is regarded as safest of all. And if you also have to take a progesterone, ask for the bio-identical which is now available also.
Suki_girl sheryl37154
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I'm pleased that there is someone else who feels the same way I do. I was worried I might be coming across to negative. Here is what the Harvard Medical school has to say about Premarin:
"Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial of combined estrogen and progestin for preventing later-life ills. The trial was stopped early, in 2002, because hormone users had a higher risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, and blood clots. Though the added risks were small, many women and their clinicians concluded they must discontinue hormone therapy. Some women objected to the use of pregnant mares' urine — the source of estrogen in oral conjugated equine estrogens (Premarin), the only estrogen tested in the WHI trial." Why is this drug still available? There are other, safer alternatives now. Alternatives that do not involve cruelty to animals.
Harvested for their urine, the horses suffer terribly for the production of this drug. They are kept continually pregnant in stalls too small for them to even turn around in order for their urine to be collected by filthy, bulky tubing attached to their bodies. When they can no longer reproduce quickly they are sent to the slaughterhouse. Their meat is then sold for human consumption or dog food.
Personally I wouldn't want to put something in my body extracted from any animals urine!