BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, A New Series Exploring Teenage Mental Health

Exploring teenage mental health; Charlie Hebdo's latest cover - satire or misogyny?; Maud West; painful investigative procedures.Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be devoting a lot of time to teenage mental health. If you’re reaching for the off switch you do need to hear this - people on the front line with real experience and insights. We’ll be talking to health professionals, teachers, parents and, finally, young people themselves. We aren’t naming any of them so they can talk freely.

We discuss the latest front cover of French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo. It is an explicit and sexualised image of a football on a woman’s vulva. How have French feminists reacted to it and what is the impact on the Women’s Football World Cup which France is hosting? For more than thirty years, Maud West ran a detective agency in London. What was it like being a female detective in the early 1900s? We hear from Susannah Stapleton on her new book about the life and career of Maud West, one of Britain’s first female detectives.

Why are women asked to undergo painful medical procedures without adequate pain relief, how prevalent is this, and what are the consequences? We hear from Paula Briggs, Consultant in Reproductive Health at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS, Katherine Tylko anti-hysteroscopy campaigner and a woman who recently underwent an hysteroscopy.

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Charlie_Hebdo On teen MH-yr GP finds “patients more inspiring & promising than anything else”-i agree-from my experience as a parent support workers/nurses & not consultants were the greatest source of strength & hope + btw even if u do get “the help” no guarantee it will be the right help.

So glad to see you have picked up on this story. I have had many many gyno procedures and have never been anxious or concerned about pain. Until my hysteroscopy !!! Worst pain I have ever experienced. Truamatic Barbaric and undignified is how I would describe mine

I'm another one who had an incredibly traumatic and painful hysteroscopy. Women should be given better information about the procedure.

I had an outpatient hysteroscopy and fainted with the pain, the staff were lovely and it was abandoned immediately, then rebooked under a GA. I felt quite shakey for a few days after, was definately not given adequate information prior to procedure.

Despite being left traumatised, having cried and called out in pain during the entire procedure the hysteroscopist reported it as having been 'well tolerated' by me. I only found this out because I complained. It just goes to show you can't trust statistics

Charlie_Hebdo The NHS spends 3 times as much on women as it does on men.

The truth is Drs do know some high risk groups such as post menopaus. stenosis of the cervix. Women who have not had a vaginal delivery. Women may damaged to their cervix . Women have had very painful periods. Just for starters there are many more. I don’t believe anxiety is one.

Charlie_Hebdo It talks about 'mild discomfort' not pain. OP gynae: 'The most appropriate investigation' = the cheapest option. 'Short and simple procedure' = longest 15 mins of your life; 'A tiny telescope'= a 3.5-5mm knitting needle pushed through your cervix. 'Induce discomfort' = torture

Sometimes?.... It appears that in several instances this procedure is affecting many women, including myself! Most brutal and traumatic experience of my life! Why is it still happening Hang on! Is it to do with money Probably!!!

Why not just have pain free hysteroscopy the medical gold standard? Why are the guidelines not being followed by doctors and hospitals?

Charlie_Hebdo Not very seriously, my 26 years old daughter has a tumour on her ovary, was fobbed off for six months, still waiting for her oncologist, within 2 weeks, yes, but feeling like an age

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I have regular colonoscopies and sedation is always offered. Hysteroscopies should be treated in the same way.

I had a severely painful Hysteroscopy/failed biopsy with 2 paracetamol in 2014 the Dr in your programme did not mention the risks to menopausal, nulliparous or women who havent had a vaginal birth who may have a closed or narrowed cervix. BSGE statement also now offers IVsedation

Good to see this subject aired at last. Severe pain affects around 25% of women undergoing this procedure without any anaesthetic. It appears the NHS is profiting at the expense of women. Many experience PTSD afterwards

So pleased Womans hour covered this is issue. As someone that has suffered a painful hysteroscopy I feel woman deserve nothing less than the full facts so that they can make informed consent. It's not good enough to be told it will be like a smear test.

A good start, although alarming that the consultant continued to use words like 'cramp' and 'discomfort' when the discussion was on women who experience SEVERE pain that they describe as worst if their life. hysteroscopy action RCOG

How about actually listening to teenagers too, dismissing them as just teens is damaging and dangerous. I can't say any more except that the system is inadequate, it is too distressing. My daughter is still alive thankfully, but no thanks to NEECCG

Unfortunately too many women suffer this procedure without suitable pain relief in place. It was total torture for myself and many women I have met since. The NHS has to review what is occurring in their Gynea outpatient departments nationwide.

So pleased this is being covered Katherine Tylko HysteroscopyA is a leading campaigner and member of RCOGWomensNetwork to ensure women are fully informed, offered appropriate pain relief and treated with respect RCObsGyn

Hey We have been doing this for the last year. Check out our BBC Raising Teens programme. As a parent of two teens with what felt like no where to turn, I set this up. Please listen and share.

My hysteroscopy felt how I would imagine a Victorian backstreet abortion with a knitting needle would feel like but without the whisky.

How about teaming up teachers with health professionals trained in educational assistance rather than asking teachers to recognize mental health? Teachers are not health professionals. mentalhealth mentalhealthawareness

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