Just an added note on placebo response: When Ortho Pharm. tested Ortho Tri-Cyclen to get an indication for improving acne, it performed better than placebo, but about 36% (if my memory isn't too faulty) on the placebo also showed improvement.
Thanks for the deep dive on this, and the graphics are charmingly good. It will help me to be conversant about this with my people in primary care, and perhaps prescribe at times... but I think I will still recommend “talking to your Gyn” first. I do wish the hot flashes went to zero for that price, and very odd how the inflation adjusted cost parallels Viagra. I think brexafemme was introduced at $700/course, and the GLP 1 drugs like semaglutide run 800-1000/ month, so it’s kind of the going rate these days in America?
I'll be really interested to see if it gets licensed over here (UK) and what the price to the NHS is if so ... sildenafil was *very* expensive to the NHS for many years, and only available free-at-point-of-need to people with a specific medical underlying cause for their erectile dysfunction, everyone else had to get a private prescription. I wonder if this will be the same?
I just love that over a year and a half of the FDA approving this medication for hot flashes, that my insurance, Anthem Blue Cross PPO, STILL doesn't cover this medicine. What the @#$%. Just more delays in care to women in need. Once again, if this was Viagra or Ozempic....you know the rest. 😠
Just an added note on placebo response: When Ortho Pharm. tested Ortho Tri-Cyclen to get an indication for improving acne, it performed better than placebo, but about 36% (if my memory isn't too faulty) on the placebo also showed improvement.
Thanks for the deep dive on this, and the graphics are charmingly good. It will help me to be conversant about this with my people in primary care, and perhaps prescribe at times... but I think I will still recommend “talking to your Gyn” first. I do wish the hot flashes went to zero for that price, and very odd how the inflation adjusted cost parallels Viagra. I think brexafemme was introduced at $700/course, and the GLP 1 drugs like semaglutide run 800-1000/ month, so it’s kind of the going rate these days in America?
Yes, I think you are right. It's really atrocious compared with other countries.
I'll be really interested to see if it gets licensed over here (UK) and what the price to the NHS is if so ... sildenafil was *very* expensive to the NHS for many years, and only available free-at-point-of-need to people with a specific medical underlying cause for their erectile dysfunction, everyone else had to get a private prescription. I wonder if this will be the same?
I just love that over a year and a half of the FDA approving this medication for hot flashes, that my insurance, Anthem Blue Cross PPO, STILL doesn't cover this medicine. What the @#$%. Just more delays in care to women in need. Once again, if this was Viagra or Ozempic....you know the rest. 😠