Basically, for three reasons:
because they do not know that it is useless. Well, yes, unfortunately, the French doctors are not trained to know the risks of ovarian physiology ... They are taught the disease, not the normal variants in healthy people.
because women are concerned and demand a solution - and, like drugs are eager to help and can not explain the above, and are especially trained to prescribe drugs they prescribe a drug ...
because dealers sell drugs, long, products designed to address this type of "problem" and have always been promoting to doctors
The prototype of the product used to "cook the rules" is the ° Duphaston (dydrogesterone). This is a product close to progesterone but has modest effects, if not very different from those of placebo. It was sold long ago, in 1961, at a time when the requirements for effectiveness of the drugs were not those of today (it was marketing just about anything ... )
Theoretically dydrogesterone can be used in case of "lack of progesterone" ie in two situations:
in case of intense premenstrual syndrome (linked to the "fall" of progesterone in the blood in the absence of pregnancy) or a "hyperestrogenism 'Temporary (swollen breasts, in particular);
when cycle irregularities at the approach of menopause, and in the latter case, it is also to fight against unpleasant symptoms similar to premenstrual syndrome;
It is IN NO EVENT a drug that "regulates your cycle." (Indeed, the plug guidance on the public site of Vidal (dictionary subsidized by industry), the words "regulation of the cycle" does not appear.)
Why doctors prescribe it they, then?
Because it "reassures" women, because it reassures physicians because it saves them time by a sleight of hand practice: when we give the dydrogestone to a woman who has not menstruating for ten to fifteen days, the medication is stopped it will do what is called a "withdrawal bleeding" and will bleed as if she was menstruating. It does not say that after her period she will start a normal cycle, as if he had been "restart" or is "start over" and ovulate. Because these are not rules that trigger ovulation, it is the brain ... And if the brain does not, you can take all you want dydrogestone, ovulation will not occur.
Why do they give the doctors Duphaston and not another progestin?
Because other progestins are contraceptive! So if they give one another, obviously, it's not going to help ovulation. By giving Duphaston, they hope that it will not prevent ovulation to do, and they find satisfaction by giving the woman a treatment that will keep him busy for a month, and bleeding that will reassure her for another month . Until it has again delayed menstruation without pregnancy and is worried again. This "hocus-pocus" seems sometimes walk because most women have of late pregnancy without rules that transiently. And the cycle starts again anyway. The Duphaston ° there is nothing but the doctor can pass for a great man (or a large woman).
Prescribe Duphaston ° to a woman who has no rules or has irregular cycles and who wishes to become pregnant within the last two years is a moral and scientific fraud.
Personally, I always preferred to explain the situation and encourage patience among women who came to consult me for this type of problem. In the vast majority of cases, they ended up being pregnant without the need of any treatment, and were grateful to me, since I had reassured their likely fertility. Those, however, had a real problem fertility have not been falsely reassured by the false rules of a treatment such as Duphaston ° and, when it is time to explore their infertility (which, once in three , was due to their companion ...) I have been grateful not to be misled and not have to swallow their unnecessary treatments for nothing.
Note that the Duphaston was removed from the UK market in 2008. Why? Because British doctors prescribed more do. You should know that British doctors are probably the best trained in the world ... Which explains why they do prescribe unnecessary drugs ... more