Doctors call for Viagra to be more widely available to stop men buying fake meds from the internet: where is concern for T3?

[ITYFIALMCTT]

I was reading about a soon-to-be-published book - Why Women Are Poorer than Men and What We Can Do About IT

One fact jumped out at me:

“ Did you know . . .

* The NHS spends more on Viagra than helping single mother families eat healthily"

I went looking for the statistics. I shouldn't have been surprised that #2 in the search engine ranking was a news item calling for better access to Viagra on the NHS but I am disappointed.

Alt text for image: 2nd entry of search engine returns for search string, "NHS spends more on Viagra than helping single mother families eat healthily":

Text of news item reads: "Give more Viagra on the NHS say Doctors"

"Access to Viagra on the NHS should be increased to counter the trade in fake medicines, doctors’ leaders say. The British Medical Association has urged the Government to review who is eligible"

All this concern for men and their Viagra. Can you imagine a headline saying, "Give T3 on the NHS say Doctors and Endocrinologists"

"Access to T3 on the NHS should be increased to counter the trade in fake medicines, doctors’ leaders say. The British Medical Association has urged the Government to review who is eligible"

Maybe even concentrating on the disproportionate number of women affected by hypothyroidism and the diminished quality of life associated with a lack of access to T3 and appropriate treatment?

It's so difficult to obtain a reliable source of T3 and I'm always sick with worry about fake meds as it's such a huge business for scammers.

[ITYFIALMCTT]

Yes - I do know. I also know that 'Viagra' is being used as a catch-all for expressing a drugs bill that includes generics. And I know that 'Healthy Start' vouchers are available to families on UC not just single mothers.

And I still wonder when we might ever see a headline calling for T3 to be made available over fears about individuals purchasing fake meds.

[ITYFIALMCTT]

My perception is that even when T3 was available at a reasonable price to the NHS in the UK, a disproportionate number of women found it very difficult to obtain a prescription for the disingenuous reasons with which we're only too familiar. Women of a certain age are used to being treated as unreliable narrators of their own experience and fobbed off with an inferior quality of life.

However, Viagra used to be expensive (before the generics) and the NHS took that cost even when it ended up being 6-10 times more expensive than estimated in some areas (I remember when one area had budgeted for £6million and spent £58million in a year). Now Viagra is cheaper, the NHS actively distributes leaflets for the over-60s that encourages the uptake of Viagra because of the importance of a 'healthy full life.'

I would be do my best to lumber through a happy dance if I thought that it would encourage the GPs and endocrinologists too often reported here to think again about whether they would reconsider their manner with women and willingness to support a trial of T3.

[greygoose]

Probably also has an awful lot to do with ignorance. And, obsession. But what we should do is point out to these worthy gentlemen that without T3 a lot of women will have no libido - female viagra or no female viagra! - so not much point in these men ramping up their sex-drive. lol

[Legoparis in reply to greygoose]

Well said grey goose now you are talking

[greygoose in reply to Legoparis]

[Miffie in reply to greygoose]

Been there , dine that, got the t-shirts! 🤣🤣🤣

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

I have noticed many calls over the years for free drug testing facilities to be available at festivals, etc., to counter dangerous drugs.

Maybe we could take T3 tablets to be verified?

I fully understand the rationale for free testing, the impact it can have on lives, etc. But there is always the potential for entirely bogus T3 tablets to contain absolutely anything. I cannot see why the same arguments in favour of festival testing don't also apply to T3.

[Stourie]

10 years ago it was around £25 for 28 lios and they were very reluctant to prescribe it then. I must just have been lucky. Jo xx