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The Pill for PMDD: What It Actually Is, and Which One Has the Evidence
Three pills. Three progestins. Three very different reasons a woman ends up on one and not another. In this episode, Dr Georgina Standen properly unpacks "the pill" for PMDD — what actually separates one formulation from the next, which one has the real evidence behind it, and why the way you take it can matter as much as which one you choose.
In this episode:
What "the pill" actually means — and why the progestin, not the oestrogen, is where most of the real differences live
The evidence for drospirenone specifically — and the honest admission that it still only works for around half of…
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