Jameela Jamil just tweeted this....

Wikipedia can be instantly edited by anyone, apart from the protected pages. I've done it myself to show classes how unreliable a resource it is.
I also wasn't allowed to reference it in my degree.

People sharing US papers as gotchas would do well to remember that UK has different prescribing protocols.

Yes, I’m sure that’s what she’s mistaking it for. I knew a few on the contraceptive pill for periods. Puberty blockers are a completely different beast!

The point of her post being of course that no one is running around with their hair on fire until the treatment is used for a trans child.

The point of her post being bollocks and her grave ignorance of the situation of the now adult children who were put on puberty blockers for precocious puberty.

One is supposed to learn from history, not repeat it by trying the same treatment pathway on patients for different symptoms, and then going surprisedpikachu.gif when it does the same to them.

The point of her post being of course that no one is running around with their hair on fire until the treatment is used for a trans child

The point of her post being of course that she was talking bollocks.

It's pure transphobia.

Well, there it is..... we are discussing the prescription of puberty blockers for teenagers for heavy periods and the likelihood that Jameela know even one on this prescription.

You are making some pretty massive leaps here. But I guess it does show your intention.

If you don't you are only proving Jameela's point.

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng88/chapter/Recommendations#management-of-hmb

If they were regularly used on ''loads of girls'' for heavy periods, why did no 'experts' at the Keira Bell judicial review think to mention it? They mentioned their other uses...

Those 'many girls' will be in their mid 30s now, the perfect people to tell us all about any side effects. Where's the data?

I’ve checked the guidelines on heavy menstrual bleeding from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and NICE, and neither of those recommend or even mention GNRHa, not even as a last-chance option.

It’s not a routine treatment, Wikipedia is not a reliable medical resource and nor is Jameela.

Right, so we've established that it is used to treat HMB in adolescents and none of you have any idea whether Jameela know any girls at school who were prescribed it.

Really. so, 'loads' of girls at her school were being treated with PBs as the last resort for HMB.

Were you a teenager having periods, heavy or not, in the 90s? If it was anything like my own experience, the doctors at the time usually hand waved it away. In the 90s. In the 90s, I was told by numerous male doctors periods were normal and just get over it. I was told by numerous female doctors that there was little anyone could do really at my age although they did at least sympathise.

It is highly unlikely that there were 'load' of girls even experiencing that degree of HMB that they required the last line of treatment, PB.

I am not sure that twisting this to suit an entrenched narrative is going to convince a forum with a majority of women who have either had personal experience of treatment of heavy periods, had a child or sibling experiencing treatment of heavy periods or knows someone at least who has, that a load of teenagers in the 90s at one particular school were treated with puberty blocker for heavy periods.

There must be a lot of legal cases in the pipeline, all involving alumna of her school.

www.statnews.com/2017/02/02/lupron-puberty-children-health-problems/

For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking.

None of it made sense to her until she discovered a community of women online who describe similar symptoms and have one thing in common: All had taken a drug called Lupron.

Thousands of parents chose to inject their daughters with the drug, which was approved to shut down puberty in young girls but also is commonly used off-label to help short kids grow taller.

The drug’s pediatric version comes with few warnings about long-term side effects. It is also used in adults to fight prostate cancer or relieve uterine pain and the Food and Drug Administration has warnings on the drug’s adult labels about a variety of side effects.

More than 10,000 adverse event reports filed with the FDA reflect the experiences of women who’ve taken Lupron. The reports describe everything from brittle bones to faulty joints.

She drives me a bit mad - sometimes I do think it isn't necessary for her 'voice' to necessarily heard about every topic......

Right, so we've established that it is used to treat HMB in adolescents and none of you have any idea whether Jameela know any girls at school who were prescribed it.

Infrequently used. The NHS website doesn't even mention them (thanks for Malcolm's thread Clymene)

Bit weird that she claims she knew ''loads of girls'' on them. What a massive coincidence that there was a cluster of girls in her school who all at the same time were suffering so badly that they were all given the exact same rare treatment...

@NecessaryScene1

So if they are "infrequently used in adolescents solely for the indication of HMB", how likely is it that "loads of girls at Jameela's school were on them"?

Or maybe, which is more logical, she has it mixed up with the pill.

Considering when she was a teenager, heavy menstrual bleeding was probably generally hand waved away as an issue most of the time, I would consider it more of the latter than the former.

I'm willing to bet £500 no more than one at Jameela's school would have been on them. One is possible, and it might be the grain of truth. "Loads" is inconceivable.

It's a bit like the bees thing. Being attacked by 2 bees is plausible. 500 is not. (I'll take £500 on that too.)

none of you have any idea whether Jameela know any girls at school who were prescribed it

Loads. Loads of girls at her school were apparently prescribed this last-resort, rarely-prescribed treatment.

Any person who has had periods would probably take that wiki entry with a grain of salt before applying it to treatment of teenaged girls. Have you read any of the personal accounts on this very thread of the repercussions of taking these drugs? Read any personal accounts of the many women who were prescribed the drugs for precocious puberty?

Right, so we've established that it is used to treat HMB in adolescents and none of you have any idea whether Jameela know any girls at school who were prescribed it.

It says "it is infrequently used in adolescents solely for..." though?

So if they are "infrequently used in adolescents solely for the indication of HMB", how likely is it that "loads of girls at Jameela's school were on them"?

"It is infrequently used in adolescents solely for the indication of HMB"

You've posted something that agrees with what we've all been saying - did you mean to?