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How many side effects should you list during patient counselling?

 

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1. Counselling Conundrum: a real question from a patient

2. Concise Conclusion: a straight-forward patient-friendly answer 

3. Quick Wrap-up 

 

Clearly, there are nuances that may not be captured in this format. The goal here is to provide you with helpful counselling tips which often draw from multiple sources or those which are not commonly accessed by busy healthcare providers serving the community.


Counselling Conundrum: "I told my Doctor that I am currently struggling with hair loss, yet when I looked up my Vagifem online, hundreds of people say it made them lose their hair. Should I be worried?"

 

Concise Conclusion: From what I can tell, this would be an extremely rare side effect, and if it occurred in one of my patients, I would be much more likely to think that it would be unrelated to their Vagifem. At the end of the day, only you can decide how much risk of hair loss you're willing to accept. Also, keep in mind that it's mostly unhappy patients that post on forums, so for every hundred unhappy patients there are certainly thousands that have no issues, but don't bother to post online.

 

Quick Wrap-up: Alopecia was not seen in clinical trials (in fact, it isn't listed anywhere in the monograph), but we did find this side effect listed in oral estrogen monographs as a post-market adverse event (it still would be <1%, and would likely not be necessarily related to the drug).

 

 

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We hope you have found this useful. A reply to this email with any feedback or topic suggestion you may have would be greatly appreciated. Your input will be the key to making this newsletter the best it can be.

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