I want your future to be better than my present

I want you to have the respect from medical research that has been denied to me and every other menopausal woman.

Since the 1940’s, menopausal women have been denied their right to ethical clinical trials.

As a result, menopausal women have been denied the scientific rigor that would have produced healthy hormone regimens.

Instead, an industry of fear has been created around the use of hormone treatments. Doctors are fearful of prescribing it, and women are afraid of using it.

The fear is primarily caused by the actions of one pharmaceutical company, Wyeth, and from Wyeth’s insatiable need to make money by exposing as many menopausal women as possible to its drug, Premarin.

Wyeth has sponsored many clinical trials for menopause for decades and demanded that their drug, Premarin, be used. Premarin is a drug created by scientists in Canada in the 1930’s. The ingredients in Premarin are from the urine of pregnant horses.

No one disputes that Premarin has always harmed the health of menopausal women. Premarin contains over 250 active hormones, exclusively from the fetus and pregnant mother horse, and the FDA has never required Wyeth to reveal the names or amounts of each of the hundreds of horse hormones in Premarin.

The FDA is required by its own regulations to have Wyeth reveal all of the active ingredients in Premarin. Menopausal women have a right to know what Wyeth wants to put into their bodies. But the FDA is not respecting this right of menopausal women.

Decades ago, clinical trials proved that Premarin does not improve the health or quality of life of menopausal women. Yet, Wyeth continues to make it a priority to misrepresent Premarin as a treatment that menopausal women should use.

This is my reality.

Wyeth, and other drug companies, have normalized misrepresenting products that will not improve a menopausal woman’s health or quality of life.

I want you to have better options.

Your future can be better than my present.

An important first step to make this happen is to sign my petitions to ban the use of Premarin. I invite you to read my blog and sign my petitions.

My petitions can be your voice. Sign my petitions to demand the FDA ban the use of harmful ingredients in menopause drugs and demand the NIH stop unethical menopause research.

I hope you’ll join me on this journey to make the future better for all of us.

Beth

I want your future to be better than my present​

I want your future to be better than my present