Ladycare magnet for menopause symptoms

[sailorsgal]

I was reading about this the other day and wondered if anyone had tried it? Any good?

[jalopy]

I've been using the ladycare magnet for about 4 weeks. I was in the throes of getting 10-12 flushes a day but within a couple of days of using it, they went down to 1 or 2 a day. A lot of my symptoms of menopause have definitely lessened or disappeared. What I have particularly noticed is that my quality of sleep has improved no end. I just generally feel better in myself.

Like anniebrowneyes says, even if it's a placebo, it's working for me too.

[juliainparis7]

hello all, I've just joined mumsnet after reading some of your reviews. I stopped taking HRT 3weeks ago, I'm 56, and was getting bad headaches at the end of each 21 day cycle, so I'm trying out this magnet, I have seen the trials are a bit vague and I'm looking for the level of power in the magnet ?400 or 200 or more, does anyone know please? I would like it to work I am open minded, I think I'm having less hot flushes but it could still be the effects of HRT wearing off. I won't write more now but I'll write in again in a month to let you know if any progress or not :)

[pinkfrocks]

The reason you'd get headaches would be due to the change in the medication when you start taking progestogens- which type of HRT were you taking?
I'm not sure I understand a 21-day cycle because most cycles are 28 days and consist of oestrogen daily and a progestogen from day 15-28. A lot of women get a headache after day 28 when they stop the progestogen and they have a bleed. This is the same as some women get during a natural cycle, or sometimes on the Pill.

If you are 56 and have been period-free for over a year then you could take continuous HRT which means you won't get the fall from stopping progestogen- continuous means you take both hormones daily and then don't have a bleed.

Have you discussed this with your dr at all and asked for some advice?

The other things to bear in mind is that even if the magnet works on hot flushes, it doesn't replace oestrogen so you are still at risk from other effects of the menopause- brittle bones, vaginal atrophy, heart disease etc.

[roseenglish]

I cannot believe some of the cynism and almost bitter anger at the possibility that a magnet may or may not help menapause symptoms!

I've joined this forum after reading this thread because some people would rather remain miserable with symptoms than simply spend £20 and try something as harmless as a magnet!

Worst case scenario, you lose £20 BUT BEST CASE SCENARIO you become one of the thousands of women who have left reviews on the UK and USA Amazon website on this product.

And the lady who said "why is it not available on the NHS then?" Clearly doesn't understand how the NHS works.

There are many many vitamins and minerals (nutritional) products that help with all kinds of ailments but unlike the prescription pharmaceutical industry which is a multi million dollar business, there is little profit in none prescription treatments. Plus you cannot patent a vitamin.

The e cigarette industry has proven to get thousands of smokers off real and well documented cancer inducing cigarettes and it's only recently after years of negative hype and propoganda that the government have issued a statement that e cigarettes are 99% safer than real cigs.
This SHOULD have been obvious to anyone who took the time to do intelligent research instead of just reading headlines in tabloid newspapers who are paid to publish propoganda by the tobacco industry.
Who by the way, are now buying up all major e cigarette companies as they have given up the fight and realise they are losing customers to e cigarettes so want a slice of that pie now.

Now, if you are suffering with insomnia, sweats, anxiety, depression and other of the multitudes of peri and menopause symptoms you have two options.

1. continue to suffer but feel better about yourself for not being a fool for buying into a device that makes no sense and do zero research.
   
   
2. risk £20 and actually try it for 24 hours a day. And see how you feel in the weeks or months that follow.
   You may be surprised and glad you didn't put your pride first.
   
   I am very cynical and always assume I'll be one of those people something didn't work for even if it works for many others.
   But I feel I had nothing to lose other than my pride and a relatively small amount of money.
   When you're loosing sleep and suffering real bad with anxiety and physical symptoms then £20 IS NOTHING!
   if you think it's expensive then I question how much you're actually suffering.
   
   It works, And again, do the research, check some blogs out on HOW it works and you should find it actually makes sense.
   
   Stop attacking people who have claimed it helps and worse still, the sneers and snidely remarks may well stop other women from buying it and it could make their lives so much easier.
   
   And for the predictable posts asking me if I represent the lady care magnet, a big fat no.
   They don't need to pull stunts like that, big company which has been trading for over a decade. Speaks for itself really.

[Mobebe]

Hi all I just bought ladycare today and it work a bit already I get hot flushes every half hour they lasted about 5 mins now the heat not as bad and not as long they say it could take up to 3 months to work so fingers cross they go completely anything worth the try ladies x

[Oblomov16]

My friend recommended it to me. Haven't bought one yet. Really shocked at the cynicism and nastiness on this thread!
Got to be worth a try, for £20?

[TrojanWhore]

Call me cynical, but so many of these posts read like PR pieces, especially when the thread is reanimated at such long intervals.

In the six years the thread has been running, there doesn't appear to be any new evidence on whether these things work other than as a placebo.

[picklemepopcorn]

This thread is full of 'different' posters using the same words to promote the product. Dodgy or what?

[Oblomov16]

Why can't you take a poster at face value? I haven't even tried it!! But if I did, and it worked, for ME, why would that bother you? I don't work for them. I've been a weekly poster on MN for over 13 years.

[Oblomov16]

[GlacindaTheTroll]

Anecdata is not enough to say a product works.

There is a distinct lack of evidence of the actual product working, though it does appear to generate a placebo effect. And if that effect leads to relief of symptoms, that's good.

[PollyPerky]

Every few months, someone pops along here to advocate the magnet. They have usually had no history on the meno forum and no history on MN (unless changed names.)
I have the vision of someone at Ladycare offices being told 'Right love, post on a few forums today, we need to up sales.'

There is no evidence at all that it works. I've read a lot about it, digging into the qualifications and background of the man who invented it, who their colleagues are who have 'reviewed it' and there is no truly independent research.

It's never been peer reviewed (by independent experts) and the truth is that is a magnet worked, any old £2 magnet in your knickers would do the same thing.

The reason women think it works is they use it during peri when symptoms are up and down daily or they believe it works (placebo effect is over 30% in all drugs.)

[caz1967]

Morning Ladies

I have just seen a TV advert regarding the Ladycare Menopause for the first time, Had never heard about it , I had a hysterectomy in my 20's. My consultant at the time left my Ovaries due to my age. That was over 22 yrs ago, for the past 5 or so years ive being having extreme sweats all of the time, when ever I visited my GP to ask is this the menopause he disregarded me and my symptom's as side effects of the medication I take for a medical issue with my back hips etc, and arthritis. Now I finally his attention last week as really fed up with it all and what's he say , You would be the other side by now, I had not realised you had a hysterectomy so young. I pushed this time and insisted on a blood test, as he wanted me to start HRT but if I could use this ladycare device would it be instead of HRT? I take enough tablets a

[PollyPerky]

If your periods stopped before age 45 that is an early menopause.
This increases your risk of heart disease and osteoporosis in your 50s and beyond.
The magnet is a placebo. There is no reputable science to show it works. if it did, it would be available on the NHS. It's a placebo effect.
Your dr is right.

[TroysMammy]

I don't know if it works but a friend was once attached to a Tesco trolley by it

[Apairofsparklingeyes]

The magnet doesn't work. The only difference I noticed was my wallet was ££ lighter and my underwear was damp from where the sweat ran down off the magnet during my continued hot flushes.

[callmeadoctor]

I have been using this magnet for a couple of weeks, has definitely improved the hot flushes, which I am very happy about. ( Long term Mumsnetter, nothing to do with magnet company 😀 )

[callmeadoctor]

Don't care if its a placebo or not if it makes me feel better 😁

[PollyPerky]

TBH you could stick a bar of soap down your pants and say it 'worked'! In peri, symptoms come and go. That's why the magnet 'works'. It is not possible for a lump of metal to prevent the vasomotor symptoms of menopause. If this magnet worked, it would be available on the NHS and promoted by consultant gynaes. It would be safer, better and cheaper than all researched , prescribed treatments. Ask yourself why it's not prescribed.

[callmeadoctor]

Wonders why posters get so cross with other members for their thoughts? Aren't we all in this together, sharing help and ideas? Interestingly loads of women recommended it to me ( probably all too afraid to come on here. As you say, why would consultants not recommend a cheaper treatment? ( think about that thought indeed!!) Why would they? Hmmmm......

[callmeadoctor]

Safer, better and cheaper than other treatments? Drugs companies wouldn't be very happy would they? 😉😉

[PollyPerky]

So you think the guy who invented it did so for love and is not making money from it? If you bothered to research it and even go so far as looking at the names of the 'independent' people who 'endorse' the product you would see they are hand in glove, through their various backgrounds.

Yes we ARE all in this together. That's why I can't let recommendations go when they have been proved to be useless. It's quackery. If you want to waste your money that's fine. But at least accept that it has no scientific basis at all and when you are out of peri and into post meno and the symptoms are still there (and not fluctuating day by day, week by week etc) it will do bugger all.

[PollyPerky]

If you are also suggesting that consultants are in the hands of drug companies you need your head examining. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[terrylene]

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You can get a lot of magnets for £32 off Amazon

[PacificDogwod]

The plural of anecdote does not data make.

I am quite sure these magnets are harmless (other than to your wallet) and would be quite open to see any evidence that they work (double blind, peer reviewed study).
No?
Ah, well.