, earned all the slow claps by noting, “I am so fucking tired of the discrimination that women face when it comes to medical treatment. From being gaslighted, denied therapy or misdiagnosed, this discrimination often costs women their lives.”
“One particular horrible mistreatment of women is the performance of gynecological procedures without pain medication or anesthetic,” they continued, sharing, “I’ve had an IUD inserted and I wentand passed out from the pain. I had to be monitored for several hours afterward. Why is this permitted? How can we change it?”
As the thread began to go viral, thousands of other women shared their own experiences, from being told that having a literal piece of your cervix removed will feel like “just a pinch” to the frequency with which women pass out from the pain of an IUD insertion only to be told most women only feel “mild cramping.”
Naturally, there were plenty of stories of men having no such issues, like the woman who revealed a nurse snapped at her for complaining of pain during childbirth — when her husband went to get a vasectomy later on, he was given Valium to take the night before the procedure, another one for that morning, and then pain relief during the 5 minute procedure. He was given another script for afterwards and told to “go easy for a few days.
Check out some of the most horrific of the stories shared, and prepare to wince at some of these nightmare-inducing scenarios that women are just expected to deal with on the regular.
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