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is it a feminist issue that the average woman will spend years of her life being pregnant

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PumpkinGuts · 15/10/2013 14:54

and that none of the pharmacy companies seem to to care if we can take their sodding medicine?

Thread "inspired" by another thread. Some poor woman in chat can't take a lemsip because you can't find anything that says "yes, go ahead and take it" and doesn't pass the buck on to someone else.

I remember having a raging raging ear infection. Couldn't sleep couldn't lay my head down, and could not for the life of me get a doctor to prescribe something for the pain. Was left in a crying heap every night for days.

I realise there are ethical reasons for why they don't want to do studies..but the truth is there are woman taking them anyway can they not ask women who are going to take it anyway to give their info?

I recently have been researching cannabis for pain relief in labor and have found contrary to my previous belief that it must be fucking dangerous that it's actually had no real studies done on it to say it is dangerous for pregnant women and that case studies of women in areas where it is the life style... there is no real issue against it and the babies don't have a worse outcome than the babies who's mothers don't use it. Not to mention the coctail of real drugs and narcotics they give to laboring women that we actually know are unsafe!

AND it can be great for natural remedy for morning sickness!

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PumpkinGuts · 15/10/2013 16:10

The "average" woman in the world will have more than one child and spend 18 months + pregnant. Or do you assume\ because you only had one everyone else did? Confused

Thank you howler that is kind of what I was asking, women are taking medicine during pregnancy and many medicines have been taken for years so I can't see why this information can't be compiled.

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BerstieSpotts · 15/10/2013 16:06

Right, but cannabis is illegal, hence it not being approved for anyone, not just pregnant women.

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HowlerMonkey · 15/10/2013 16:03

I don't think it's a feminist issue.

However, I agree that it is frustrating that we have to rely on rumor and anecdote ('I took it and I'm ok') rather than being able to collect all the information together in one place and do some proper analyses on it.

Maybe some sort of questionnaire/list could be handed out to women as they leave the hospital post-partum, asking if they took any of the following during pregnancy. They could then be assigned a number. A follow-up questionnaire could ask about their baby's health at 1yo and those details could be linked to their personal number. That way, some of the dots could be joined.

I agree it would be a bit vague (I'm a scientist) but no-one is going to condone drug trials in pregnant women (nor should they) and this sort of data collection exercise would be better than nothing.

So I disagree with your initial question, but think it's an interesting topic Grin

Also, I don't think the op has advocated such testing at all.

Ragwort · 15/10/2013 15:59

Really don't understand your thread title, I am not sure that the 'average' woman spend years of her life being pregnant Confused.

I only spent nine months.

SirChenjin · 15/10/2013 15:57

Nope.

As in, nope, it's not a feminist issue.

Mollydoggerson · 15/10/2013 15:55

bonkers

LadyFlumpalot · 15/10/2013 15:54

I asked my doctor about safe antihistamines in pregnancy, he told me they are so wary because it is VERY hard to find pregnant women who will agree to let their unborn children be test subjects for medicines.

BoundandRebound · 15/10/2013 15:53

They can only confirm it is safe for pregnant women if they do trials on pregnant women

You cannot be advocating such testing

TheArticFunky · 15/10/2013 15:50

I don't remember there being a problem taking medication whilst pregnant. I know lots of women refuse all drugs but I was told I could take paracetamol and if it was necessary I took it.

Cannabis is a whole other issue and not a feminist concern in my view. There have been lots of people arguing that people should be able to take it for pain relief for conditions such as MS and arthritis.