Many menopause drugs on the market derive from estrogen from pregnant horses. Now, a women's health expert and integrative doctor is calling for a shake-up of the government-subsidised PBS list to include newer medicines with fewer side effects.
A women's health doctor wants Australians experiencing menopause symptoms to have better access to an effective hormone replacement therapy drug, and is calling on the government to list it on the PBS .
The women's health expert and integrative doctor says the newer drugs have fewer serious side effects compared to the old drugs which are derived from the 1960s when menopause was first identified as a hormone deficiency syndrome.At that time, estrogen from pregnant horses was used for hormone replacement therapy , also known as menopausal hormone therapy.
"Prometrium is the only available body-identical progesterone and it's not on the PBS, so it costs women up to $60 a month."Dr Caratti said a lack of education was contributing to older menopause medication with more serious side effects still being prescribed. Valerie Hausknecht, 53, said the timing of her visit to her GP was critical to the help she received.
The AMA said the lack of cheap access to these treatments for women was due to outdated pricing regulations and a glaring oversight of the health needs of women. "I was dragging myself along thinking it was stress, grief and the usual getting older. I was a mess.""This is a federal issue and we encourage women to speak to their federal ministers and senators to push this agenda.
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