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Huge news for anyone with painful periods who's ever thought "I wonder if I have endometriosis??" - now you can either spit in a tube, or stick some electrode pads on your belly, and know within a few minutes or days, with a high degree of certainty, if you do in fact have endometriosis!!
If you live in the UK, Canada, or some countries in Europe, that is. Not in the US...yet.
So what are these tests? How accurate are they? When will we get them in the US? Dr. Gail Busby, a UK gynecologist who advocated for these tests to be available through the NHS, tells us all about it.
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I don't want to freak you out, but between 70-90% of people with uteruses WILL get fibroids at some point in their menstruating years. So what do we need to know??
Dr. Soyini Hawkins, gynecologist, minimally invasive surgeon, and founder of the Fibroid and Pelvic Wellness Center of Georgia, answers my technical questions. Tanika Gray Valbrun, founder of The White Dress Project and award-winning journalist, goes deep on community, education, and how we can advocate for ourselves and each other.
They've co-authored a book: From Fibroids to Freedom, From Silence To Strength: https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-fibroids-to-freedom-from-silence-to-strength-tanika-gray-valbrun/6a392db8b6fe38d4?ean=9781399817295&bkshp-astro=t
The White Dress Project: https://www.thewhitedressproject.org/ (and on IG at @wecanwearwhite)
Dr. Hawkins' Fibroid and Pelvic Wellness Center of Georgia: https://fibroidandpelvicwellness.com/

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Enjoy this episode of Cristen Conger's excellent podcast Unladylike!
The perimenopause boom is old news, but where did it come from, and why does it make some ob-gyns wary? Cristen investigates what we do – and don’t – know about perimenopause and what to expect when you’re expecting The Change(s). And as an industry “growth opportunity” at the intersection of beauty, aging and healthcare (usually in that order), how do we tell the difference between our own perimenopause needs and what’s being sold to us? Highlights include: perimenopause, the TikTok personality; the study that set hormone therapy back a generation; and why the menopause market is now coming for women in their thirties.
More Unladylike here: https://www.unladylike.co/

sources:
How Perimenopause Became the New Midlife Catchall for Aging Women. (Elle)
Insights into Perimenopause: A Survey of Perceptions, Opinions on Treatment, and Potential Approaches. (Women)
Is it Perimenopause or Is It Aging? (The Vajenda)
Perimenopause is the new buzzword in the business of women’s health (Stat News)
The missing piece of menopause science. (Nature)
The perimenopause movement sells women the lie that they are ruled by their hormones. (Stat News)
Towards a more accurate global picture of perimenopause. (Bulletin of the World Health Organization)

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Comedian Jenny Zigrino was posting so many hilarious videos about endo studies on Instagram that I invited her over to my house to do a deep dive on 2017's "A qualitative study of the impact of endometriosis on male partners". As you can imagine, we get heated.
Plus we get deep into Jenny's experience with endo, a frank conversation about pain with sex, her recent autoimmune diagnosis, and the treatment that has helped her endo a lot lately.

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The study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5850214/

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Representative Yassamin Ansari has passed out from cramps in a New York bodega and in a hair salon with foils in her hair. She KNOWS period pain. She is also the Arizona congresswoman who just introduced the HER Agenda to Congress, a package of bills proposing 12 days of paid reproductive health leave, better pain management for gynecological procedures, and more research into PMDD. Kate talks to her about her pain meds, how the HER Agenda came together, and the single most useful thing a cramper can do right now to help get it passed.
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See the co-sponsors of H.R.8158 - the Reproductive Healthcare Leave Act: https://bit.ly/4fkDYUv
Find your representative & contact info: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
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