This excellent piece captures a lot of issues with the short shrift women are given in our healthcare system. If men menstruated and got fibroids, it would be a lot different.
Excerpt:
"This means that not only was my own fibroid growing stealthily, covered by all my other symptoms during menstruation, but that most women don’t know they have any issues at all until their pain becomes so extreme that they go to the ER or nearly die due to blood loss, like my dear friend almost did earlier this year. And even after I was diagnosed and was steered to see an OBGYN for follow up, I called nearly every doctor in town and couldn’t be seen before November!"
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