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Women's Rights & Issues

ShazzieB

(18,925 posts)

6. Doctors need to start taking this stuff a hell of a lot more seriously.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:07 AM

Oct 2023

I actually thought they were doing better than they used to. But then, I went through menopause over 20 years ago, so what do I know?

I remember when I was a young teen in the early 60s leaning about periods and stuff, I had a brochure that was put out by the company that made Kotex. It said in there that periods weren't supposed to be agonizingly painful and implied that if yours were, there was something wrong with you...mentally.

I thought we'd come a long way in the last 60 years, but it sounds like I was wrong!