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When Chronic Pain is Minimized Because It's 'Just Female Problems'

My endometriosis pain is so severe I can barely function three weeks out of every month, but doctors keep suggesting I just need better pain management techniques.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Women's pain is systematically undertreated and dismissed as emotional rather than physical, leaving them advocating desperately for their own reality.

Ideas that help explain it
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