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from:msnbc.comThree in 10 women take the common breast cancer drug Femara to treat infertility, even though it could increase risks to the baby, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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[see Contraindications (4)].
Femara may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman and offers no clinical benefit to premenopausal women with breast cancer. Femara is contraindicated in women who are or may become pregnant. If this drug is used during pregnancy, or if the patient becomes pregnant while taking this drug, the patient should be apprised of the potential hazard to a fetus
From the package insert! Sounds like the patient should be on birth control using a drug that is not indicated for women who may become pregnant!
"Off label use" is a crime isn't it? Or at least malpractice. Why don't the insurance companies report this?
Report it balagna - why pay for it period. why pay for any fertility or dick stand up drug??? I do not want my health care premiums going up so some sow can drop a brat or some old fart can get his dick to stand up. Never croaked because you couldn't get pregnant or get an erection - for God's sake - get real. We need to provide and pay for what is NEEDED, not because somebody "wants" something. There is a reason a woman can't get pregnant. Ya want a kid so bad?? ADOPT.
Jan, some insurance companies already pay for infertility procedures and many don't. You had a valid point but you could have made it without calling all infertile women sows or all men with ED old farts.
My mother was infertile and she did adopt. Adoption is not cheap nor is it fast. Just because a woman is infertile doesn't make her a bad person. In fact, there are many birth parents that have absolutely no business having children.
This has been done for years and I know several women with PCOS that have successfully conceived using this drug. None of them had trouble with birth defects.
While it is dishonest for it not to be indicated to the insurance companies as an infertility drug, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if, in a few years, they market the same drug under two different names for two different indications. Case in point: Wellbutrin. It's an anti-depressant but it was given another name (I can't remember what it was but it came out before Chantix) when it was discovered to have an effect on smoking. So, if you take the drug for depression, it's Wellbutrin, but the same drug for smoking is called something else.
Calling infertile women "sows" is one of the most hateful things I've ever seen on this board. You've obviously never endured the pain of miscarriage or childbirth, or the hurt caused by the cruel remarks of people like you.
My insurance plan doesn't cover infertility. It comes out of my pocket, by the way.
And PLEASE stop shoving adoption at everyone. Adoption was not created to provide infertile couples with children, and most of us, like those who have bio kids, want our own. That doesn't make us bad people, or selfish. I, by the way, WAS adopted, and that's why I don't want to adopt. I had a bad experience with the system and have NO desire to get back into it and deal with nosy social workers and family court judges ever again.
Adoption can cost as much - or more - than infertility, and lots of good couples are excluded due to medical and income requirements. My husband had an organ transplant that cured his disease, but would still exclude us from adopting.
I will pray for you. Your cold heart obviously needs it.
I'd like to know, by the way, the "reason" women can't get pregnant. It's not "God's will" (then why would he give people like Andria Yates and Susan Smith children?) and it's not "Nature's way of telling you you weren't meant to be a mother" (All cruel comments I've gotten)
The week I had my last miscarriage a man in Philly beat his toddler to death because she "interrupted" his video game playing. So it's a "good reason" why he could have kids, but I can't?
Examine your soul, dear. Please.
It's not illegal to use drugs for different purposes if they are legally prescribed. It's not unusual, either: monoxidil, used to grow hair now, was originally a blood pressure med. Viagra was also used for something else, I forget what.
Femara didn't work for me (and I WAS advised of its usage and signed a waiver) but other women have been successful in conceiving, since it prompts ovulation.