Women using testosterone therapy who have the potential for pregnancy must use reliable contraception. — Whalespan
Women using testosterone therapy who have the potential for pregnancy must use reliable contraception.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“and if you're going to get a blood test don't put it where you're going to draw it or don't try to wait some hours so that you still get a little bit of a peak even though with daily use of transdermal it's more it's more of a steady state”
“so who might that be um so there is a um a biological plausibility and the guidance in the clinical guidelin says that you can consider this and L later reproductive age women and and so I you know every now and then a menstrual cycle peaks in and all of us have heard of a an unexpected pregnancy in those women and and it's probably if you by the time you discover you're pregnant the testosterone's not going to do much harm to the fetus because it's usually only a few weeks but we don't want people using testosterone and getting pregnant”