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Nov 2024
10:03am, 5 Nov 2024
18,070 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
Probably too early for me (still having regular periods but on the lookout for a magic pill to take of 10 years, 5kg and 1 min per km).
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Nov 2024
10:23am, 5 Nov 2024
71,814 posts
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Velociraptor
Aye, ITG, the licensed indications for oestrogen pessaries don't even hint at any of those benefits  Maybe some of Stacy Sims's "adaptogens" in Next Level will do the trick. She makes ashwaghanda sound like the elixir of eternal youth.
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Nov 2024
10:34am, 5 Nov 2024
71,815 posts
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Velociraptor
(I will add that I read that chapter open to the idea of using one or more of these substances when the time was right to stop HRT, and then I had a long chat with Dr Google and decided I wouldn't be bothering.)
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Nov 2024
10:39am, 5 Nov 2024
18,071 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
[Heard a rumour about steroids...]
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Nov 2024
10:44am, 5 Nov 2024
71,816 posts
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Velociraptor
A gossip rumour, a health concern rumour, or under the counter advice about performance enhancement, ITG?
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Nov 2024
11:24am, 5 Nov 2024
18,072 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
[Was whinging to my mate about desire for magic pill. He, age 31, thought that body buildery type steroids would do it. But would have side effects.
At least I don't need to worry about erectile disfunction.
Entirely unscientific and no, I have not attempted to source any 😂]
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Nov 2024
11:38am, 5 Nov 2024
51,857 posts
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plodding hippo
re vaginal oestrogen....unfortunately the literature coming with it isnt exactlyin date
Yes it can be very usefully employed during perimenopause, plus some benefit from a daily application
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Nov 2024
11:38am, 5 Nov 2024
71,817 posts
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Velociraptor
There are sound reasons why body buildery steroids are popular and even elite endurance athletes are always getting caught using them. Probably best saved for when you've optimised everything else and need that last marginal gain. (Wouldn't touch 'em, but I've also never felt the need to augment my HRT with a tiny squirt of testosterone gel.)
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Nov 2024
12:10pm, 5 Nov 2024
47,331 posts
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runnerbean
Just wanted to say last year I was given those pessaries and after two weeks I had severe cramps and bleeding. Had to go for a biopsy just to ensure it was nothing else causing it. I stopped taking it immediately and the cramps and bleeding stopped.
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Nov 2024
1:01pm, 5 Nov 2024
2,687 posts
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MsG
If you do use the pessaries and are booked for a smear test, make sure you check whether/ when you need to stop using them before the test. This is because some of the substances can interfere with the lab processes and cause problems with reading the sample.
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