New guidelines to physicians FINALLY tell them to take women’s pain seriously.
New guidelines to physicians FINALLY tell them to take women’s pain seriously.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/well/live/guidelines-iud-insertion-pain-management.html
Go 2025? They had to update medical guidance because male doctors are so cavalier about women’s pain. Glad for the women this will help but rolling my eyes at the physicians who didn’t listen as well.
It's amazing how consistently dreaded and traumatic this is for women and yet is completely preventable. It's either thinking that women are baselessly lying over being in pain (despite pain being completely expected given the reality of the procedure), or it's knowing that it's painful and still forcing them to endure pain. So much for women's feelings being coddled and valued over men's.
Also yet another reason why women should forego penetrative sex. The amount of discomfort and straight up pain that women are intentionally put through in order to do it is incredible. I imagine part of it is also the idea of punishing women for having sex, or at least having it the "proper" patriarchal way.