I was today years old when I figured out that your hormone levels can change ADHD symptoms and even the effectiveness of ADHD medication.
Misogyny in medicine strikes again
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Replying to @twitchyspoonie
How is this misogynistic? Genuinely asking because I want to understand for myself and others.
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Replying to @fosbergbrittany
ADHD studies haven't accounted for hormones fluctuations for people with periods or afab people/people taking things like estrogen because most of them have only studied cis men.
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Replying to @twitchyspoonie @fosbergbrittany
They can only study the people who sign up for the studies. Maybe cis men are the only ones willing to sign up??
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The medical system has reinforced ADHD as a men’s disease and thereby usually solicit men heavily for studies. Its a self-fulfilling prophecy situation that they need to correct for, not excuse.
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Well that really doesn't make sense because by the numbers women are more likely to take prescription pills than men are. Just the numbers. I think it really just has to do with men being much more likely to take part in medicine studies because guys are much less like to care...
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Replying to @DustinMeny @Legend0fGreyson and
About side effects when it comes to studies not some covert mission to sabotage or hold back women thru medicinal side effects
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Replying to @DustinMeny @Legend0fGreyson and
ADHD is statistically more diagnosed in people amab leading to this idea it is a boy/man thing. And women are frequently not diagnosed with a variety of things and the impact of medication on women but esp BIWOC is much less understood b/c of a lack of studies.
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People don’t just “sign up” for studies. If they keep getting blown off by a doctor then how would they know? Do some research on this (google is your friend) before you try to explain how this works to ppl who are more in the know.
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