Testosterone Patch Hailed As Female Viagra

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=751&e=7&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_he_me/female_viagra

PHILADELPHIA - Menopausal women had more sex and were happier about it when using an experimental hormone patch hailed by some as a possible female equivalent of Viagra, doctors reported Tuesday.

Women on the testosterone patch had sex about four times more than they usually did in two months compared to only one additional session for women given a fake patch containing no hormone, a study found.

Those who got real patches also reported more arousal, pleasure and orgasms, and had better self-images.

"We found an increase in activity, an increase in desire and a decrease in distress," said Dr. Robin Kroll, a Seattle gynecologist who reported results of the study Tuesday at a meeting of infertility specialists. The research was sponsored by Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, which is developing the patch, called Intrinsa, with Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.

explain why Barbara Bush looks like the Quaker Oats man?

LOL Too funny! :) I like it!

Can somebody photoshop her face on a Quaker Oats box??

like remote control hogging and forgetting to put the seat back down?

It's embarrassing. :silly:

:mad: Why don't the Pharm Companies spend their time and R/D money developing drugs and vaccines for shit that MATTERS ???

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than I will about cancer treatment ... and I'll thank Eli Lilly and Pfizer and all the other companies for making it possible for me to cum before I die.

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The Blue Hairs in the assisted living places are gettin it on.

Plus the blood transfusions are getting it into the population, then they are doin it and getting it on...

No cure for breast cancer, but they have a zillion pills to get you hot and to get it up. And, don't tell me, this will probably be covered by health insurance, right? :eyes:

this kind of crap really pisses me off! :mad:

Will we be able to shave our faces every day and spit, fart and scratch ourselves too? Can't wait!

Welcome to DU! :toast:

That's really funny!

and another welcome.

You'll be surprized how fast you really get to like it.

including ourselves. And I bet nobody takes over the cooking if I sit flipping stations with the remote.

Where's the patch that will make the guys get up off the couch and do something? And how do we slap it on them?

Just so happens that I cook every meal that gets eaten in my house as well as doing the laundry and I get the kids out to school every morning so my wife can get in to work early.

So let's leave the man-bashing to the Freeper women, shall we?

"do you have a twin? -- who is single?" ;)

... does not increase sexual desire in men one bit, it merely facilitates it :)

Testosterone often does increase desire in women (well, in men too).

It's no real surprise, it's been well known for a while. But it isn't anything like "viagra" because women don't need a... whatever.

But yeah, you're right.

The wife does like what viagra does for her, but it doesn't increase desire.

my wife's gonna wake up one day soon with about 5 of these stuck on her!!

power tools and watch ESPN all day.

nasty little *side effect* of testosterone ... that and dem big abs ... :evilgrin:

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So what's the downside? Heart attack? Sudden Death Syndrome? Hairy Palms? Appearence of Testicles?

I'm not getting my hopes (among other things) up.

Unless there are ZERO hazards, my GF won't try it. Won't do HRT, won't go talk to anyone. Her GP said "Watch movies, that'll get you going..."

it will become a little more clear.

And no- the side effects aren't major. Testosterone occurs naturally.

and we know now that many experts think it's not nice to fool WITH Mother Nature wrt ERT.

She needs an ob/gyn who is aware of what can be done for female lack of desire. Low dose testosterone is available now by prescription and it really makes a big, big difference for some women. The patch is already on the market, and there are also pills available if she thinks the testosterone patch is too "experimental," although it isn't, it has been around for at least a decade.

Watching porn won't help if the hormones are screwed up. But, yeah, you know that.

Nothing in life is without hazard, there are also health hazards to celibacy. Here's hoping things take a change for the better.

I'll pass it along.
Hell, I *know* nothing's without risks. Shit, even life is 100% fatal.

as they cover Viagra?

Probably not---because "female sexual dysfucntion" is seen as a menal issue, not a physical or physiological one.

However, ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION? Hold the fucking train! That's a national emergency. New York Times Reports that Lack of Hardons causes cancer, distended anus, rattly teeth, mis-matched eye-colour, general malcontent. Also, erectile dysfunction has been linked to clocks running 6 minutes and 8 seconds slow, car-keys being rendered inoperable, and the variable speeds on the blender from working properly. WE MUST FUND VIAGRA. THE UNIVERSE DEPENDS ON IT

What? Female Sexual Dysfunction? oh, who cares about a dry old cooter? Maybe if those women would just start dressing pretty and wearing some sexy long-ger-ray they'd get sexual. Either that or put some ky in that scratchy slot and read the paper while your old man gets his 4 hour erection. Feh. Who cares about wimmen and their "ooh but I can't get aroused now that I'm post menopausal and have vaginal dryness and signs of endometriosis". Fuck 'em (which is what Viagra allows us to do!)

Of course, there are still insurance companies who cover Viagra, but don't cover birth control methods of ANY kind (no pills, no depo, no patch, no cervical ring---nada).

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I guess I shouldn't be so cynical because at least this is being DEVELOPED....which has been long overdue (as are many other women-specific ailments which continue to go ignored by the medical and pharmaceutal companies).

Sigh.

We've come a long way baby...well, not "come"...but pretended to.

scratchy slot??? Heheh

There's an upside to testosterone, but there's also a downside.
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Testosterone is a powerful hormone and it could have long term adverse effects on women. Remember that this research was sponsored by Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, the same company that is trying to market the drug. Remember all of the research sponsored by Big Tobacco that told us that tobacco was safe.

it does occur naturally in females, and is in fact viatal to proper metabolism, so I'd say the danger level is pretty low.

You're asking for nature to throw a boomerang on your ass.

Just my take.

Hormone Replacement Therapy was just "replacing" natural female hormones, so the medical community didn't take its potential harms as seriously as it turns out they should have. There is a lesson in there, too.

--has about 80 times as much circulating testosterone as estradiol.

So that your man can pour himself a stiff one.

A woman telephones her doctor complaining of recent growth of body hair after testosterone treatments.
"I told you there would be some side effects like new hair growth," said doc.
"I know,"replied the distraught woman,"but since it began on my chest it seems increasing in growth further downward."
"Alright,"said the doc in a concilliatory tone,"how much further down has it grown?"
"Well," she said "its almost to my balls."

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Meanwhile, a survey of 2,000 American women sponsored by Procter & Gamble and done by the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey found that one in three naturally menopausal women reported lackluster sex lives, but only one in 10 said it upset them.

probably just inevitable. When urge to procreate diminishes should not the sex drive. Just because we are vital and intelligent into our golden years does not mean we have to be sexual too.

would do a lot more for our self-esteem and consequently our sex lives, than any amount of manuafactured SHIT designed to make us behave like men.

Recognizing and valueing each other as individuals would go far to make our world a fun place to live rather than the current paradym of "I've got mine, screw you."

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Cancer, malaria, TB, AIDS, Parkinsons, ALS, Lupus, MS and Alzheimers?
NOTHING.

Erectile dysfunction, hair loss, stomach gas, hayfever and elevated dietary cholesterol?
STEP RIGHT UP!

This industry is becoming a parody of itself.

And frankly Cancer, malaria, TB, AIDS, Parkinson's, ALS, Lupus, MS and Alzheimer's?
NOTHING. is some what disingenuous.

the The American (in fact international) Pharmaceutical Industry, is just that, a Industry selling a product, not in and, of its self a Non-Profit.

I hope Arianna Huffington tries some and bites him back.

when they are finished?

There is no lack of desire among women for a close, meaningful, mutually nurturing relationship that includes physical contact--

There just are too many men who want free sex that by bad hygiene, health, attitude and mental illness totally gross out the woman. Plus, it takes effort.

To make them more aggressive, that is.