Wyeth - Prempro / Premarin: settlement

It is a shame and an insult to us all that we continue to feed our women "horse urine-based estrogen" by mouth when repeated compelling clinical information says that the safer product is plant-generated or more bioidentical hormones, delivered throgh the skin. Insurance companies do their best to perpetate the older hormones (premarin, prempro) by refusing to subsidize the newer (spelled more expensive) compounds, despite the evidence that it harms patients.

Has Suzanne Somers cast a spell on you?( M.D.)?? Iam confused by your post. "spelled more expensive" what is that all about?

It makes me sick that a judge would dismiss these cases. I was on premarin for a total of 13 years and NOT once did any doctor who saw me suggest I go off this drug. I fiund a lump in my breast, it was cancer, had a mastectomy and 6 surgeries for reconstruction. We researched my family tree, no one ever had cancer, nor did I find, later on, that I don't even carry the BRACA gene. Thank the Lord I had a hysterectomy years before. By the way....my tumor was stage 2 and estrogen positive, and I have always been thin!

Like I have stated on this forum previously I had a biopsy on my right breast. I have dense,fibrocystic breasts,this is all way before I began taking prempro. It was not cancer, and I can understand you are angry. thirteen years is a long time. Iam currently off prempro, and I feel terrible! In the end it all comes down to freedom of choice. By the way all of the possible side effects are explained in the Patient Prescription Information.

I can not belive that that they still sell prempro I had a stroke at the age of 43 because of the drug prempro the doctors made test & found thicken of my blood caused by hrt. I'am 48 now and still under a doctors care. They have put me on blood thinners for the rest of my life because of prempo and I think they should take such a thing off the market when you are wrong you should have to pay & when you have the paper saying that was why you had a stroke no matter what a judge says it is wrong it messed up my life.

I don't think women should take ANY estrogen supplement. Menopause is a natural part of life.

That is so young, how tramatic for you to experience such a reaction to prempro. I will keep you in my thoughts. Take care, and stay well.

As I read the comments above of some of the women who had taken Prempro, it is the the same story over and over. This drug is dangerous and will kill you. It killed my mother. My mother was in excellent health all her life. No family history of cancer. She was put on Prempro due to the her menopausal symptoms she had were quite bad. The story goes she got put on Prempro, ended up in the hospital for blood clots several times, then she discovered the breast cancer and the real battle began for her life.
I was with her through her battle with the cancer and heard several women tell the same story. As my mother lay dying in the hospital room another women got rolled in to the same room where my mother was in. I asked her what she was in the hospital for and she told me she had blood clots in her legs..and I knew at that moment it was the same story again. My mother died that week from Breast cancer. The horror of her death haunts me every day since the day she died now five years ago. I want to get her story out there and the pattern of this drug..blood clots, breast cancer, death. Please be aware what you are doing to your body if you are thinking of taking this drug or have been prescibed it.

How long was your mother on Prempro?
It is very unfortunate that this medication is so controversial. I do know a lot of Women who have had good results taking Prempro. Menopause is a confusing and difficult time in many Women's lives, and HRT has helped many Women with menopausal symptoms that borderline on severe.(example: anxiety,depression,fatigue) Iam so sorry that your mother had such a terrible experience with HRT. Wishing all Women the very best with menopause!!

I have been told I am perimenopausal and that I have "mild depression". My LDT level for cholestorol increased as well (seems to happen when the horomones go nuts for us ladies). I am fatigues, suffer from insomnia, crazy period timing, heavy, not heavy, etc... BUT, I will live with all of that. I'll avoid the possibility of the blood clots, breast cancer & death-thank you very much. My doc put me on BC pill (Loestrin FE-24) & in 4 days of use, I started having chest pains. I stopped them myself & decided I'll just live w/it. Working on increasing my exercise & nutrition to counteract some of this. I'm only 41 and feel that this is too early, but my mom said she was in full menopause from 42-43. I will explore the idea further of natural HRT with natural horomones if I can't take it anymore. Life Extensions seems to be pretty informative and I've found a lot of info in their magazines. My boyfriends mom used prempro/premarin, no history of cancer of any kind in her family & guess what? Breast Cancer diagnosis this summer. These pigs need to get their crap off the market. It's disgusting. Cancer is too big a medical "meat market" for $-hungry hounds to lust for. There will never be cure because more people benefit from cancer (surgeons/oncologists/drug co's,on&on&on)than the number of those that die and our gov't probably thinks its a great way to control the population as well. I pray that Wyeth will somehow be forced to get thier poison off the market & I do my best to spread the word. Disgusting-

Have you ever taken prempro?
you are way too young that is why you are on birth control. Wait until you reach 48 or 49, then see how you feel. I still stand by my opinion. HRT has eased a lot of menopausal symptoms for many Women.

When I was 41 I felt great! you are still young.

After two weeks on PremPro, I feel better than I have felt in nearly two years. For me, living with the risks is better than feeling achy all over, not being able to sleep, and getting hot flashes (more like electrical surges, I think) every time I move. I wasn't ready for menopause at 44. Tried the bioidenticals and could not get them balanced correctly. Now, I actually feel *alive* again. For me, it's worth the risk right now. I can exercise, sleep, control my eating, move without pain, smile, feel energetic . . .None of that was happening before. It was truly awful.