Comments for My Menopause.org http://www.mymenopause.org Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Antidepressants: the Miracle Cure for Hot Flashes? by jeffrey dach md http://www.mymenopause.org/antidepressants-the-miracle-cure-for-hot-flashes/comment-page-1#comment-3590 jeffrey dach md Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:07:44 +0000 http://www.mymenopause.org/antidepressants-the-miracle-cure-for-hot-flashes#comment-3590 Medical Research Reaches a New Low Point. Ellen Freeman and authors of this JAMA study (all on the payroll of Forest Labs, maker of Lexapro) used Lexepro to show the drug is "marginally" more effective than placebo for Hot Flashes. This is laughable. Surely you must be joking? SSRI drugs are addictive drugs with adverse side effects including loss of sexual function, akasthesias, agitation, movement disorders, violence and suicide. Lexapro for Hot Flashes is merely another example of the medical victimization of women. The study should have been rejected by the ethics committee and never been done. Menopausal symptoms are caused by hormone deficiency, not Lexapro deficiency and the proper treatment is bioidentical hormones. For More: http://jeffreydach.com/2011/01/19/lexepro-for-hot-flashes-medical-victimization-or-joke.aspx jeffrey dach md Medical Research Reaches a New Low Point. Ellen Freeman and authors of this JAMA study (all on the payroll of Forest Labs, maker of Lexapro) used Lexepro to show the drug is “marginally” more effective than placebo for Hot Flashes. This is laughable. Surely you must be joking? SSRI drugs are addictive drugs with adverse side effects including loss of sexual function, akasthesias, agitation, movement disorders, violence and suicide. Lexapro for Hot Flashes is merely another example of the medical victimization of women. The study should have been rejected by the ethics committee and never been done. Menopausal symptoms are caused by hormone deficiency, not Lexapro deficiency and the proper treatment is bioidentical hormones.

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