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Pain
Posted by busyeyes88I think that was something mentioned in the article. Regardless, I was posting this more so because women's pain is always treated with such disregard. Even by medical professionals who know that female bodies are more sensitive to pain.
You could have endometriosis...
Posted by Magenta_Azure
A woman's menstrual should not be used as a casual insult.
"She must be PMSing".
In my experience, when people use the term, "she must be PMSing" ... they are referring to the woman being a bitch, and carrying on and on and on.
Just because you are in physical pain ... doesn't give you a right to be a whiny bitch. And that is the reason for the insults.
I've NEVER met a man in my entire life who faults a female in pain during her cycle ... only faulting her because she uses this for an excuse to be a bitch.
I do believe that women, in most cases, exaggerate their pain. I can fully understand why they aren't taken as seriously as they want.
There are ways to stop the pain, stop the cramps ... but, most women refuse to do it.
The cramping happens when you use tampons, most times. By wearing pads, and letting it flow out, the cramps usually subside, or are non-existent.
Another thing I dispute here ...... in my experience, I find that women have a higher threshold for pain then men.
Posted by Magenta_Azure
.... women's pain is always treated with such disregard.
Even by medical professionals who know that female bodies are more sensitive to pain.
I don't know what kind of an environment you live in ... but, I've never experienced a woman being disregarded for her menstrual pain and discomfort. Quite the Contrary ... I observed women being given way more passes then she probably deserves.
Females aren't more sensitive to pain ... I will have to research this, because to my knowledge, sensitivities to pain aren't gender specific. However, I will agree that women believe they are more special than men, and that because they have periods that it makes them victims, and in being this victim of mother nature, they play that to the hilt.
in that ^^ scenario, I would agree that women are more sensitive. but, not to pain, rather to their emotions.
I've been a female, and experienced cycles for over 35 years .. and I've never experienced a woman being treated differently while on her period. Unless of course, like I said, she used it to justify being an ass.
If I find anything in my search, I'll link it
I've never minded my cramps. Only in the beginning of my periods were they a pain. After birth however...oh goodness It was terrible. After a few months it leveled back to normal but I was scared it was going to be terrible for the rest of my life...oh god was it bad not just pain...gah
Some people just experience it differently there's all kinds though.
Some people just experience it differently there's all kinds though.
Posted by P-Angel
I do believe that women, in most cases, exaggerate their pain. I can fully understand why they aren't taken as seriously as they want.
This is just dogma to me. I don't even understand how you, as a woman, can form this opinion on women's pain when you've admitted that you know very little about how women ACTUALLY respond to pain.
There are ways to stop the pain, stop the cramps ... but, most women refuse to do it.
The cramping happens when you use tampons, most times. By wearing pads, and letting it flow out, the cramps usually subside, or are non-existent.
You are only viewing this issue from your own perspective (which is to be expected). As mentioned before, ive had debilitating episodes of pain cause by my menstrual cycle. If you read some of the comments on the Jezebel article I posted you'll see that tons of other women have had similar experiences (some worse). This isn't me trying to form a pity party for women.
This is an actual issue of women's pain being underestimated because MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS would rather think "She's being an overly emotional bitch. Just deal with it. Everybody deals with pain." than " Hmm. We know that women experience PSM/Menstrual cycle related pain, but what we don't know EXACTLY where it is coming from. How about we do some research instead of assuming women are just overly emotional bitches.". This attitude literally hurts women because people are not willing to see women's pain as an actual problem. Its just apart of womanhood.
As far as cramps go, I literally do not use tampons or pads, and when I don't take some type of medicine my cramps take my breath away. I experience emotional episodes and sensitivity that turn me into a whole nother person. Way more research needs to be done on these symptoms because this isn't just something that I experience, it something lots of women experience. And, as human beings that work, pay taxes, raise children, and live in general, I think Scientists owe it to women to do extensive research on PMS/Menstrual cycle related pain. Women should not be expected to put up with pain just because people think we are pathological liars.
Another thing I dispute here ...... in my experience, I find that women have a higher threshold for pain then men.
I agree that women have a higher threshold forpain but that doesn't make them any less sensitive to it. If anything because women experience so much pain our bodies dont have a choice but to have SOME tolerance for pain.
Females aren't more sensitive to pain ... I will have to research this, because to my knowledge, sensitivities to pain aren't gender specific. However, I will agree that women believe they are more special than men, and that because they have periods that it makes them victims, and in being this victim of mother nature, they play that to the hilt.
in that ^^ scenario, I would agree that women are more sensitive. but, not to pain, rather to their emotions.
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"These girls aren’t wounded so much as post-”‹wounded, and I see their sisters everywhere. They’re over it. I am not a melodramatic person. God help the woman who is. What I’ll call “post-”‹wounded” isn’t a shift in deep feeling (we understand these women still hurt) but a shift away from wounded affect: These women are aware that “woundedness” is overdone and overrated. They are wary of melodrama, so they stay numb or clever instead. Post-”‹wounded women make jokes about being wounded or get impatient with women who hurt too much. The post-”‹wounded woman conducts herself as if preempting certain accusations: Don’t cry too loud; don’t play victim. Don’t ask for pain meds you don’t need; don’t give those doctors another reason to doubt. Post-”‹wounded women fuck men who don’t love them and then they feel mildly sad about it, or just blasé about it; they refuse to hurt about it or to admit they hurt about it—”‹or else they are endlessly self-”‹aware about it, if they do allow themselves this hurting.
The post-”‹wounded posture is claustrophobic: jadedness, aching gone implicit, sarcasm quick on the heels of anything that might look like self-”‹pity. I see it in female writers and their female narrators, troves of stories about vaguely dissatisfied women who no longer fully own their feelings. Pain is everywhere and nowhere. Post-”‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-”‹pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-”‹absorption without self-”‹awareness.
I know these dialects because I have spoken them; I know these post-”‹wounded narrators because I have written them. I wonder now: What shame are they sculpted from?"
http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2014/04/grand-unified-theory-female-pain
@p-angel
Here is a small exerpt from another article
When Gender Stereotypes Become A Serious Hazard To Women’s Health
When Kathy tried to seek medical attention for abnormally heavy periods that were leaving her feeling so faint that she was unable to stand, four different medical professionals said it was all in her head. They concluded she was simply struggling with anxiety and perhaps even had a serious mental health disorder. She says her primary care doctor repeatedly told her, “All your symptoms are your imagination.”
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It took nine months for Kathy to be diagnosed with potentially life-threatening uterine fibroids that required surgical intervention. And that was only after she took it upon herself to demand an ultrasound. She was suffering from anemia, not anxiety.
“I was left to my own ability to recognize what was happening and defend myself,” Kathy, who didn’t want to print her last name along with details about her sensitive medical information, told ThinkProgress. “I was being treated as a mental incompetent and as a mentally ill hypochondriac.” She added that she doesn’t believe she would have received the same type of treatment if she were a man.
Kathy’s experience isn’t unique. It can be difficult for female patients to convince health professionals to take their symptoms seriously — which, in turn, makes some women hesitant to speak up about their medical concerns in the first place, for fear of being told they’re overreacting. Ultimately, this complicated interplay between gender roles and the health care system could be putting lives at stake.
All your symptoms are your imagination.
Other women have also recounted visiting dozens of doctors for help with painful periods, only to be offered anti-anxiety medication and sent home. In March, the New York Times reported that this is one major reason why the symptoms of endometriosis go ignored in young girls. “I knew something was wrong when I was 15, but no one listened to me,” one woman told the Times.
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The issue extends beyond the female reproductive system. There’s a particularly well-documented gender gap in the treatment of pain. Even though women are more likely to suffer from chronic pain — fibromyalgia, for instance, almost exclusively affects women — they’re less likely than their male counterparts to receive appropriate treatment for it. Multiple studies have found that medical interventions to manage pain, ranging from knee surgeries to opioid prescriptions, are less likely to be recommended for female patients. The widely-cited study “The Girl Who Cried Pain” found that medical professionals are more likely to tell women that their symptoms are psychosomatic, a term defined as “a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.”
This means that, just as Kathy experienced, many female patients are told that it’s just in their head.
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Here is a small exerpt from another article
When Gender Stereotypes Become A Serious Hazard To Women’s Health
When Kathy tried to seek medical attention for abnormally heavy periods that were leaving her feeling so faint that she was unable to stand, four different medical professionals said it was all in her head. They concluded she was simply struggling with anxiety and perhaps even had a serious mental health disorder. She says her primary care doctor repeatedly told her, “All your symptoms are your imagination.”
Advertisement
It took nine months for Kathy to be diagnosed with potentially life-threatening uterine fibroids that required surgical intervention. And that was only after she took it upon herself to demand an ultrasound. She was suffering from anemia, not anxiety.
“I was left to my own ability to recognize what was happening and defend myself,” Kathy, who didn’t want to print her last name along with details about her sensitive medical information, told ThinkProgress. “I was being treated as a mental incompetent and as a mentally ill hypochondriac.” She added that she doesn’t believe she would have received the same type of treatment if she were a man.
Kathy’s experience isn’t unique. It can be difficult for female patients to convince health professionals to take their symptoms seriously — which, in turn, makes some women hesitant to speak up about their medical concerns in the first place, for fear of being told they’re overreacting. Ultimately, this complicated interplay between gender roles and the health care system could be putting lives at stake.
All your symptoms are your imagination.
Other women have also recounted visiting dozens of doctors for help with painful periods, only to be offered anti-anxiety medication and sent home. In March, the New York Times reported that this is one major reason why the symptoms of endometriosis go ignored in young girls. “I knew something was wrong when I was 15, but no one listened to me,” one woman told the Times.
Advertisement
The issue extends beyond the female reproductive system. There’s a particularly well-documented gender gap in the treatment of pain. Even though women are more likely to suffer from chronic pain — fibromyalgia, for instance, almost exclusively affects women — they’re less likely than their male counterparts to receive appropriate treatment for it. Multiple studies have found that medical interventions to manage pain, ranging from knee surgeries to opioid prescriptions, are less likely to be recommended for female patients. The widely-cited study “The Girl Who Cried Pain” found that medical professionals are more likely to tell women that their symptoms are psychosomatic, a term defined as “a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.”
This means that, just as Kathy experienced, many female patients are told that it’s just in their head.
http://thi
Posted by WestsidekodakPosted by SugeredSapOMFG LETS MAKE A SPIRITED AWAY THREADDDDD PLLSSZZZZ
I've never minded my cramps. Only in the beginning of my periods were they a pain. After birth however...oh goodness It was terrible. After a few months it leveled back to normal but I was scared it was going to be terrible for the rest of my life...oh god was it bad not just pain...gah
Some people just experience it differently there's all kinds though.click to expand
We should it would be grand ^ ^
Posted by WestsidekodakYou did suggest it, do you want the honor?Posted by SugeredSapYESSSSS OK WHO WILL START IT—— I LIKE THAT ONE!Posted by WestsidekodakPosted by SugeredSapOMFG LETS MAKE A SPIRITED AWAY THREADDDDD PLLSSZZZZ
I've never minded my cramps. Only in the beginning of my periods were they a pain. After birth however...oh goodness It was terrible. After a few months it leveled back to normal but I was scared it was going to be terrible for the rest of my life...oh god was it bad not just pain...gah
Some people just experience it differently there's all kinds though.
We should it would be grand ^ ^click to expand
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take a tiny amount 5 mg during the weekdays, give your body a couple of days off on the weekends. There is a warning to not overdo it, cus it hormone inducing type herb and it can fuck up your thyroid, same with licorice, which is another good herb for women reproductive health.
Got terrible debilitating craps every month. I could maybe take midol wait a few hours and it eases up. Been taking it for a year now, haven't had a problem with it since.
https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/products/vitex-slash-chaste-berry-powder/profile
take a tiny amount 5 mg during the weekdays, give your body a couple of days off on the weekends. There is a warning to not overdo it, cus it hormone inducing type herb and it can fuck up your thyroid, same with licorice, which is another good herb for women reproductive health.
Got terrible debilitating craps every month. I could maybe take midol wait a few hours and it eases up. Been taking it for a year now, haven't had a problem with it since.
Posted by Astrobyn
Vitex (Chaste Tree) Berry Powder
https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/products/vitex-slash-chaste-berry-powder/profile
take a tiny amount 5 mg during the weekdays, give your body a couple of days off on the weekends. There is a warning to not overdo it, cus it hormone inducing type herb and it can fuck up your thyroid, same with licorice, which is another good herb for women reproductive health.
Got terrible debilitating craps every month. I could maybe take midol wait a few hours and it eases up. Been taking it for a year now, haven't had a problem wigth it since.
Thanks lady! 🙂
Raspberry leaf tea is also very helpful
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"The basis of the piece (which begins with the subtle lead: “It’s time to talk about period pain”) is that not enough research is being done to find treatments, despite the fact that this pain cripples about one in five women."
... Which got me to thinking. A woman's menstrual should not be used as a casual insult. "She must be PMSing". I definitely have heard that one. And depending on the time of month, I probably am. That is not something that should be used against me. I have blacked out, collapsed, vommited, and missed out on work because of my cycle, yet people seem to think its okay to use my female pain as a joke? I think doing research on the pain (and other issues) menstrual cycles bring women can help re-sensitize people to the fact that it is real pain that shouldn't be tossed around as an insult when you don't want to hear a woman speak.
http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2014/04/grand-unified-theory-female-pain
"A 2001 study called “The Girl Who Cried Pain” tries to make sense of the fact that men are more likely than women to be given medication when they report pain to their doctors. Women are more likely to be given sedatives. The study makes visible a disturbing set of assumptions: It’s not just that women are prone to hurting—”‹a pain that never goes away—”‹but also that they’re prone to making it up. The report finds that despite evidence that “women are biologically more sensitive to pain than men … [their] pain reports are taken less seriously.” Less seriously meaning, more specifically, “they are more likely to have their pain reports discounted as ‘emotional’ or ‘psychogenic’ and, therefore, ‘not real.’”Š”
Then again... We are talking about women's issues. Something people are seemingly less and less interested in.
Interesting read (s).