From Olive Ford, National Association for Premenstrual Syndrome
It is not accurate to say that the contraceptive implant, Norplant, delivers
progesterone through the skin
(This Week, 8 May, p 5). It delivers progestogen.
Progesterone and the many artificial progestogens are not interchangeable as
treatments nor in print.
It would be a pity if some of the many women successfully using progesterone
as a treatment for PMS were to be made anxious about the side effects described
under the heading “Implant exits”.
Seal, Kent
