HeyJaredThe Female Edge
Women's health at the edge of medicine, consciousness, and culture. For women ready to stop being managed and start becoming more fully who they are.
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Special Live Call with Sara Szal MD (opens the original)
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Before She Can Want You, She Has to Feel Safe with You (opens the original)
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A little slower. I have heard women say those words in my office for decades, usually only after they trust me enough to open up about what they really want sexually. The woman saying them runs meetings, raises children, and argues with insurance companies without flinching. In bed, the same three words can feel nearly impossible to say.She knows what she means. What she’s calculating is the cost: the disappointment, maybe the defensiveness and cold silence, the argument she has no energy for at
The Pill Touches Every System in Your Body. Here Is the Informed Consent You Never Got. (opens the original)
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She was 16 when a doctor prescribed the birth control pill. The conversation was brief and covered blood clots and what to do after a missed dose. She took the pill faithfully for the next 15 years, through college, medical school, and residency. By age 31, her body was sending signals that confused her: puffiness and inflammation she could not explain, vaginal dryness that made sex less comfortable and that lubricant didn’t seem to fix, and less desire than before. By then she was a gynecologis
Sixteen, Silent, and Somewhere Else: My First Gyn Exam (opens the original)
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I left my body before I left the gynecologist’s exam room. I didn’t have a word for it yet. I was 16, staring at ceiling tiles while a stranger’s gloved hands moved inside me, my most private and sacred parts, and by the time he finished, some version of me had already gone silent and small, and stayed that way for decades.I’d been dating my boyfriend for two years and believed I loved him. A friend a few years older gave me the name of her gynecologist. I doubt she recommended the experience, i
My Full Testosterone Protocol: The Labs, the Dose, and the Conversation I Have with Every Patient (opens the original)
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American women are still being prescribed testosterone as if we were small men. For 30 years, I have prescribed testosterone to women off-label, meaning for a use that is not specifically approved by the FDA. The testosterone prescription usually requires either a compounding pharmacy to prepare a physiologic dose for a woman or the careful fractionation of a male-approved product, dispensing only a small portion of the dose designed for men, usually one tenth or so.Why am I stuck doing this, an
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