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[CLKD]

Because I am an untidy person I found the article by Dr Julien Helen Nash, The Times, 5 Feb.. Retired GP, Bridgenorth, Shropshire

Further to your reports in Times2 (Feb 3), menopausal women need testosterone as well as progesterone and oestrogen.

Women produce 5 times more testosterone than oestrogen and like oestrogen levels, testosterone levels decline during the menopausal years.

Testosterone is vital for maintaining optimum brain function, muscle mass and bone health, as well as libido.

Unfortunately, testosterone replacement therapy for women is not widely available on the NHS in England and where it is available, GPs seem reluctant to prescribe it because they have been taught during medical training that testosterone is a male hormone.

Attitudes towards female testosterone need to change through education and access to testosterone for menopausal women needs to be universal.

Testosterone is a female hormone and women need to claim it.

[CLKD]

Although there are no papers quoted, I don't doubt that Dr Nash knows what she is talking about, which was echoed in Davina's recent programme although I couldn't hear the American ladies discussion clear enough to take on board what was being said.

[Taz2]

Maybe the first step is for it to be licensed for use in women which would give GPs more confidence in prescribing it. 

[CLKD]

But the BMS don't agree with all that was said on Davina's programme 

[Winterose]

Are there any women on the BMS ?

[sheila99]

Maybe the first step is for it to be licensed for use in women which would give GPs more confidence in prescribing it. 

Agree entirely. Because it isn't licensed for women the gp is personally responsible for anything that goes wrong. You really can't blame them for insisting on a specialist who will take this responsibility. Without the purely bureaucratic problem more gps would be willing to prescribe