Treating Endometriosis as a Women's Disease Hurts Patients of All Genders

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[–]MarkTwainiac 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

More transpaining. Nobody suffers the way trans and gender speshuls suffer. The same diseases and conditions that other people struggle with are always many times worse and so much more painful for those who are trans and non-binary.

I recently read two other articles using the same template. One said that having and abortion is way more difficult and distressing if you're trans or enby, the other said miscarriage and stillbirth is much more painful and traumatic for individuals or couples who are trans or "gender variant."

Next we'll hear about how internment in concentration camps in China for being Uighur is so much worse for the trans and non-binary. All those kids dying of starvation in Yemen have it so much easier than they would if they were trans or enby. Being forced to undergo FGM in childhood hurts so much worse for those who don't "identify as" girls.

Whoever is plotting the PR campaign strategy for this crowd never seemed to learn a basic lesson of childhood: nobody likes whiners or narcissists, and whining narcissists who constantly whine about their imaginary and exaggerated problems and pains are absolutely insufferable.

In the short term, this sort of attention might seem to be to the benefit of the genderist cult. But I imagine that the more their navel-gazing narcissism and insistence on constantly catastrophizing are exposed, more and more people will become bored, unsympathetic and downright fed up. Chicken Little and The Boy Who Cried Wolf come to mind.

[–]Eurowoman24 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

i have endo and nearly killed myself. because of narcs like that research will be delayed even more.

[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sorry to hear that.

Also, for the record, there are other excruciating pelvic pain conditions that girls & women have that doctors will presume to be endo but which might be due to other causes - and none of those other female pain conditions are being researched either.

I've had severe pelvic pain since age 11 that initially occurred only when/around the time I menstruated, but later became more chronic and occurred all month long. Nobody in medicine took my complaints seriously until I had what doctors considered a very bad labor and birth and I told them that my periods were actually much worse than that.

Turns out I have a primary immune deficiency disease that causes me not to form antibodies to viruses - and as a result, I have continual bouts of shingles (varicella zoster virus) in the nerves of the lower spine connected to my ovaries, uterus, vagina, bladder, urethra and pudendal area. These bouts of shingles seemed to be set off by the fluctuations in female hormones that occurred during the ovulation-menstrual cycle when I was in my "reproductive years," and now are set off by the natural decline in/absence of hormones and diminished immunity that occurs with advanced age.

My condition might be rare, one in 10 million, or it might be common. (Since pretty much everyone has the varicella - or chicken pox - virus in their nervous systems, and so many adults have lower back, hip and pelvis pain problems especially as we age, I suspect it might be fairly common.) But we'll never know in my lifetime, coz no doctors give enough of a shit to research it.

[–]Eurowoman24 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm really sorry, that sounds horrifying to live with. Yes I know that no research is being done into other conditions either, which is why it makes me so mad when the focus is all on pronouns and not calling it a women's disease.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A significant number of the female population lives with chronic or recurrent pelvic pain that is life-altering or life-ruining from endo or other causes. Yet none of it gets researched. Lots of doctors still are taught, and believe, the nonsensical "reverse menstruation" explanation for endo that some crackpot came up with 100 years ago. In the years I was being sent to endo "specialists" I was shocked at how cavalier and casual most of them were about it.

I too resent how the pronoun people are being prioritized and slavishly catered to in medicine. Hope you've found a good physician, and best wishes to you.