Instead of believing my reports of pain, experts told me to have a baby or see a psychiatrist | Katherine Stanley

Continuing to ignore pain as a central issue leaves women suffering, not believed and silenced

I can’t begin to tell you the utter heartbreak I feel some days as I watch my children playing on the monkey bars. Statistics flash through my brain and I plead with the universe, please don’t let my kids be one of them.

92% of adolescent girls will have period pain and a third miss work and school because of it.

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