@ma1ybe (2/2) I’ve educated myself on the debilitating pain of iud insertion, endometriosis pain, and women’s pain in general being overlooked medicinally. Today (10y later)I was told I need to replace my iud & assumed women’s pain care had progressed. I was told to take ibuprofen
@ma1ybe (1/2) When I was 20 I decided to get an iud. I was told to take ibuprofen beforehand as a profolactic pain measure. The amount of pain I experienced during my iud insertion was the most I’ve experienced in my life, at the time I told myself it was necessary for the iud benefits
Male surgeons are literally removing women’s organs while the medical system ignores endometriosis. There’s five times more research on erectile dysfunction than on endometriosis. Women are treated as incubators, told to “just get pregnant” as a so-called cure, they even researched about effect of endometriosis on men’s sexual satisfaction instead of women’s suffering. Female mice are excluded from research because their hormones are “too unpredictable,” leaving many female-specific diseases understudied. Painful periods are normalized from childhood, and it often takes 7–10 years to get a proper diagnosis. Women are forced to choose between living with constant pain labelled as part of being a woman. Endometriosis isn’t a “period problem”….it affects lungs, brain, diaphragm, and almost every major organ, yet the medical system still dismisses it as a minor female issue.