So the idea of using estradiol as a prophylactic drug in *anyone* specifically in anticipation of them maybe getting COVID seems bizarre. Per WebMD 1-10% of estradiol patients experience heart palpitations and/or deep vein thrombosis.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
It feels like there are two assumptions being made here: 1) cis women and cis men differ by a larger amount in COVID resilience than exogenous estradiol increases risk of death by COVID or other means [I'm highly skeptical] >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
2) giving cis men a low dose of estradiol in the short term will cause then to effectively statistically become cis women immediately for purposes of statistical likelihood of beating COVID. This is the part that makes it feel like these are insane FictionMania reading doctors
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
here we trans women have been, angsting about whether estrogen REALLY makes us more like ourselves, hearing people about at us online that it can't and never will, and suddenly some docs look at a chart and are like "I know! We turn all men into women until the crisis ends"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
And people are like, apparently just accepting that, somehow, low dose estrogen patches will statistically even significantly alter the statistical likelihood of survival for a disease because of gender, when gender is already a pretty low factor in terms of COVID risk
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
(and of course I should throw out that NOTHING indicates treating people with HRT as a COVID prophylactic makes it less likely they will carry and transmit the disease to others)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Also, this is either being planned on a short timescale assuming these male estrogen patients will only be at risk of infection for 2-3 months, which is not how the pandemic is going,or the therapy includes the expectation that these dudes will grow boobs which.. DR. FICTIONMANIA
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
also it’s the lack of androgens in women is likely the cause for better outcomes for women, so the dudes should be taking spiro and deal with having low T rather than taking estrogen.
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Replying to @EmilyUnbound
I mean spiro is terrible and I suspect if I looked up its side effects there'd be even more reasons to not use it here (I know one immediately, would increase risk of infection by forcing men to use the bathroom more, then increasing the risk of not washing hands, etc)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @EmilyUnbound
Well, ironically, it was invented to treat high blood pressure and swelling/fluid buildup from organ failure, which is one of the things the virus causes
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I mean that's why the having to pee, it's a diuretic, it's supposed to be draining the fluid from your body to relieve pressure
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