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“Somebody That I Used to Know” dropped in 2012 in the US.
Ambien was approved in 1992.
Women were essentially overdosed for 20+ years before the FDA cut their dose in HALF in 2013 👀
Why? Because nobody checked if women metabolize it differently than men.
(We do. Slower. Which made the “standard” dose an overdose.)
Two decades of women as involuntary test subjects because testing on female bodies BEFORE it went to market “too complicated.”
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Women are getting fed up with men. Men have created their own 'loneliness' problem.
Across a woman’s life there are three major physiological transitions: puberty, pregnancy/childbirth, and menopause.
Medicine tends to treat them as separate stories. Lived experience often doesn’t.
This essay explores a single regulatory pattern that reappears across these stages — sometimes as overwhelm, sometimes as crisis, sometimes much later as muscle cramps or autonomic symptoms — not as pathology, but as boundary dynamics under changing conditions.
It’s about recognition, not diagnosis.
About regulation, not “coping better”.
And about why many women sense continuity where systems see fragments.
If this resonates — for you, your daughters, or your patients — you’re not imagining the pattern.
#WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #Puberty #Pregnancy
#BoundaryDynamics #RegulationNotPathology #ListenToWomen #HealthLiteracy
That period of time before your next period when the cramping starts...URGH
A wonderful experience with a female nurse today for a smear, who apologized when I told of my experience of a male doctor in the colposcopy clinic last year.
So much anxiety after the last time as I was not heard. So grateful for understanding professionals! ♥️
Endometriosis affects one in 10 women in the UK, yet their GP frequently dismisses it as normal "period pain".
Women are enduring years of pain because their reproductive conditions are being dismissed due to “medical misogyny”
Some more footage of our #prochoice musical clown parade in #boston !
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I hope everyone has a chance to hear Michelle Obama's full impassioned plea for #WomensRights and her support of #KamalaHarris at their rally this weekend #election2024 #michelleobama #womenshealth #voteblue #vote https://youtu.be/wp3vJU3UZNs
Since sharing my story about my medically necessary hysterectomy at 24… I’ve been told I’m an inadequate woman, my illness was my fault because I neglected my duty to procreate, that I’m scaring other women away FROM procreating and a failure.
One person called me a dried up bitter wench whose uterus “crapped out” when I got old because I didn’t have children. Meanwhile I was diagnosed infertile at 19… I would hardly call that old! I was told I couldn’t survive pregnancy at 21… and then the hysterectomy was a medical emergency at 24. Yet still - I’m blamed.
I know there will always be trolls - but believe me I’ve heard all this (and worse) in real life. I learned within about 3 months of surgery to never speak of it because of how poorly I was treated. It impacted my dating life, healthcare (so many pregnancy tests and accusations of being “confused” about what surgery I had) and caused significant medical PTSD that to this day makes it hard for me to access healthcare.
Please tell me again how women aren’t seen as incubators? How there’s no misogyny? Because if you say these things flippantly to women who are finally speaking out about their experiences - that’s 100% the message you’re sending.
I don’t say this for sympathy - I say it more to hold myself accountable. To remind myself that I had every right to tell my story … and that this type of negativity is the reason it took me twenty years to share it. That’s twenty years that my experiences may have potentially helped another young person going through a similar situation.
We can’t be scared into silence. There will always be people who see those of us without children and/or without a womb as “less than”… but they’re wrong. The best way to change the perception of childless people is to keep speaking out and challenging these ridiculous viewpoints. So I’m going to keep speaking out - and I will encourage others to do the same. I welcome them to tell their own story of reproductive health challenges on any of my posts, on my website or in a DM. I’m happy to listen, encourage and support where I can.
As an aside - this attitude exists in healthcare too where it does WAY more damage. From 16-19 I was repeatedly told I should get pregnant and that might “fix” my painful periods. 19-21 I was told that I was likely infertile and that I should start preparing for difficulties finding a husband. 21-24 I spent begging them to give me a hysterectomy because my quality of life had vanished - I was bedridden most of the time.
I was always told no - and usually because I might want children, meet a man who wants children and/or feel differently once I was “in love”.
They had told me that pregnancy would more than likely be impossible and/or KILL me … yet apparently once I was “in love” I would want to give it the ol college try anyways.
The medical establishment failed me - like they fail so many people who need reproductive healthcare. They waited until I was bleeding out to perform the hysterectomy, left me with severe post operative complications and neglected to handle them properly as well.
My sincere hope is that NO one has to go through what i went through - yet I know that people go through it every single day. Some don’t live to tell their stories. So I will keep telling mine in the hopes of gaining more allies who can help us fight for better healthcare.
I wrote two articles on this topic for anyone who wants to read more in depth. The first one chronicles my journey up to the emergency hysterectomy: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/pregnancy-will-likely-kill-you-but
The second one covers the post operative complication and the severe gaslighting and neglect that nearly cost me my life: https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and
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Fascinating, important, compelling.
A must-read
#Menstruation #WomensHealth
I disagree. This is theater, not fact. These are absolutely the people you want to shine a light on. Any republican who bucks the party line and supports abortion should be spotlighted. Even if it’s just baby steps. Those are often the hardest to make. #Politics #WomensHealth
https://news.yahoo.com/south-carolina-lawmakers-voted-6-224500042.html
