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Earlier this summer, I got to chat with the amazing Amanda Laird.
Listen to our conversation here.
I didn’t expect to get so emotional, but after recounting 31 years of being dismissed by doctor after doctor, ER after ER in what I have termed the #gynoghetto, I didn’t realize how profound it was to have a name, and proper surgical treatment, for what I had. I am sure you, or someone you love, can relate.
There’s a serious #timesup moment happening right now in medicine as it relates to female bodies. Burning (albeit “laparoscopically”!), suppression (with hormones that can leave permanent side effects like bone loss), and castration (also “laparoscopic”) which are all currently medically approved treatments for endometriosis, are truly dark ages medicine and not ok on any level.
There’s no other condition for which removing a non-related organ is considered acceptable standard of care. Gaslighting people in female bodies for decades is abuse, pure and simple. Burning the inside of women’s bodies because a 1979 study of 11 women said it got them pregnant, also not ok. 50-90% of hysterectomies are not necessary.
I think women are tired of both substandard care, and wholesale iatrogenic harm of their bodies.
You can listen to the whole journey here, here , download it in Apple iTunes, or click on the photo above.
To contact the amazing Amanda, go here.
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