Women with endometriosis are often told they are pain-pill seekers, scam artists trying to take advantage of the health system. They are called “disruptive,” “crazy,” “faking it” and “psychosomatic.” They are told that their pain may be in their heads and to move beyond it. To stop being—well, stop being a woman. We are talking about young teens and women with endometriosis who want a diagnosis, effective treatments and compassionate care. There is no cure, and these women deserve one.
Especially now, as women’s reproductive health has been propelled into the national spotlight, it is time to freely talk about and investigate menstruation and menstrual blood to promote women’s health. As a result of chronic pain, many teens and young women with endometriosis miss school, preventing them from achieving their full potential. When older, these people have difficulty getting promoted or keeping their jobs, because of excess sick days. Without a job, they lose their badly needed health insurance, and without insurance their pain goes unchecked. Some have told me they are unable to have or maintain intimate relationships.
With serious efforts by diverse, collaborative researchers from academia and industry, and engaged study participants, menstrual blood will be developed into a clinically useful resource for better understanding uterine health and uterine dysfunction, as well as for diagnostic purposes. It will no longer be considered solely as trash—something to be tossed every month—but as a vital biological specimen for women’s health.
Maybe if you'd stop referring to it as a stigma (which doesn't exist) we'll stop thinking there is a stigma...that doesn't exist. 🤷🏻♀️🤷
Good job with the graphics there,
Everyone in the comments is obviously on the rag.
Christianity is to blame
Lol
Disagree. Shame does not surround pregnancy and we have few answers. This is the stigma of being a woman and an unwillingness of the male-dominated medical research profession to tackle problems that are solely female.
We deserve better from Scientific American than this sensationalist tripe.
Can someone explain who and why feels shame? Do they mean scientists?
I’m not ashamed. Are you?
Oh but that would involve seeing women as human beings, not just a sub section of men 🤦
Endocolombia
via satire,SNL, etc.,loosen people up.
Fanciful nonsense. Real scientists work on a range of clinical problems well beyond your enveloping small minded perception.
What?
It’s about to get worse. Much worse
Do I have to be American to understand what stigmatisation they are talking about?
'Without a job, they lose their badly needed health insurance, and without insurance their pain goes unchecked.' You need to be healthy to have a health insurance.
Study it on trans women
Sigh. Why are we so backwards?
Cures are not profitable, thus they will never be studied or discovered. We could be studying acoustic therapy for this, but that would be 'discredited' by scientists that have a bottom line to protect. Look to the Earth for cures, you will find them.
“VAGINA, Mr. Lebowski.”
As long as you aren't worried about offending anyone you can talk about it. But first you have to make sure that people can define what a woman is. Because there are radical left political factions that think this is a condition that can inflict men.
Seriously saying you are the superheroes of our society. Well my question is have you found out the exact cause of endometriosis?
'Women's Health' What is a woman?
It is not that it is stigmatized...it just is not on the radar the way men's health concerns are...important things like erectile disfunction and going bald.
you know what you should do scientific american? Stay the fuck away from my storage.
Why feel shame Something I lick the entrance day in day out Please educate me I'm ready.👨💻🧑🏾🏫
Good article
What’s shameful about studying endometriosis?
And insurance companies should be required to reimburse.
A dumb option. Can you get real scientists to write for you again?
You can talk about women's diseases if you remove the stigma of defining a women
Ditto disabling headache and migraine. The burden of endometriosis and migraine far outweighs the amount of NIH funding they receive. Both are stigmatized, and 🤔 both are diseases common to women. Go figure.
This headline is bigoted. It should read: to better understand the health of persons, we need to destigmatize the fluids of persons. Heteropatriarchy and non-binary erasure are UNACCEPTABLE. You are KILLING the queer trans plus community. Especially bipoc members.
In respecting the opinions of others one must realize that just because you are comfortable talking about menstruation doesn’t mean everyone is comfortable hearing about it and talking about it unless it is the proper setting and time.Period.( Pun intended.)
We're back on women now? Feel like congratulating you but maybe not given where you deviated to ..
It would help if Scientific American would stop trying to erase the female sex/women in the first place, to spout unscientific, quasi-religious, regressive and utterly idiotic gender identity 'everything is a spectrum' nonsense, as it has been doing for the past few years.
The existance ot the 200+ Human Papoloma viruses should shame the men who know they have it...they are woman-killers.
And approach from other angles...natural food diet, herbal medicine, homeopathic medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine. It is shameless to support Big Pharma and the MONO-Medicine model.
Everything in this article is about 'women.' What about all the men who menstruate? Why are you suddenly so outrageously transphobic? Do better.
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