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> but once you get into more rare stuff it gets a lot harder. Endometriosis is not rare. But it's a female disease. You will be shocked to know how many of dis

by troupo 1y ago

> but once you get into more rare stuff it gets a lot harder. Endometriosis is not rare. But it's a female disease. You will be shocked to know how many of diseases that women have to deal with are both quite common (some estimate up to 10% of women may have it), and completely ignored by medical community (which is still overwhelmingly male)

epistasis 1y ago
You are correct, and my language was not very helpful there! The article shows that 10% is a low estimate. It is not completely ignored, but research is underfunded nearly to the degree that COPD is underfunded. I think we need to distinguish two things here too: the bedside manner of doctors and whether they are willing to present the options that could lead to diagnosis, and then the amount of medical research that could give doctors some tools to better manage endometriosis.
ipaddr 1y ago
For IBS you get similiar treatment male or female. It's about medicine not having answers for treatment and lack of easy testing not gender roles.
- troupo 1y ago
  Ask women how many of their common maladies still get untreated or misdiagnosed. White[1] males are extremely over represented in medical literature and research. And I'm saying it as a white male myself. [1] This actually has ramifications beyond just gender. See e.g. https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/21/dermatology-faces-reckoning-lack-of-darker-skin-in-textbooks-journals-harms-patients-of-color/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/21/dermatology-faces-reckon...
- genocidicbunny 1y ago
  It is absolutely also about genders too. I get a tingle in my balls? Here's an expedited ultrasound that we can do tomorrow. We can get you in for a blood test for cancer markers in two days. My whole pelvis hurts when I have my period? Here's a motrin and an ibuprofen. Come back if it doesn't stop bleeding after a few days. Like an effervescent abscess, the difference in treatment between males and females remains to this day. It's not even particularly hard to find female doctors that will outright dismiss symptoms in female patients because that's what they were taught.
  - theshackleford 1y ago
    > I get a tingle in my balls? Here's an expedited ultrasound that we can do tomorrow. We can get you in for a blood test for cancer markers in two days. I guess I must not be man enough to get the expedited treatment. Instead, I got a spinal cord injury and early stage bowel cancer. I wonder how as a man, I can start convincing doctors in my country to give me this treatment all the other men are getting behind my back. Maybe next time I should start with dropping my pants first and hanging dong so they know im on their team.

by troupo 1y ago

epistasis 1y ago

You are correct, and my language was not very helpful there! The article shows that 10% is a low estimate. It is not completely ignored, but research is underfunded nearly to the degree that COPD is underfunded. I think we need to distinguish two things here too: the bedside manner of doctors and whether they are willing to present the options that could lead to diagnosis, and then the amount of medical research that could give doctors some tools to better manage endometriosis.

ipaddr 1y ago

For IBS you get similiar treatment male or female. It's about medicine not having answers for treatment and lack of easy testing not gender roles.

troupo 1y ago
Ask women how many of their common maladies still get untreated or misdiagnosed. White[1] males are extremely over represented in medical literature and research. And I'm saying it as a white male myself. [1] This actually has ramifications beyond just gender. See e.g. https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/21/dermatology-faces-reckoning-lack-of-darker-skin-in-textbooks-journals-harms-patients-of-color/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/21/dermatology-faces-reckon...
genocidicbunny 1y ago
It is absolutely also about genders too. I get a tingle in my balls? Here's an expedited ultrasound that we can do tomorrow. We can get you in for a blood test for cancer markers in two days. My whole pelvis hurts when I have my period? Here's a motrin and an ibuprofen. Come back if it doesn't stop bleeding after a few days. Like an effervescent abscess, the difference in treatment between males and females remains to this day. It's not even particularly hard to find female doctors that will outright dismiss symptoms in female patients because that's what they were taught.
- theshackleford 1y ago
  > I get a tingle in my balls? Here's an expedited ultrasound that we can do tomorrow. We can get you in for a blood test for cancer markers in two days. I guess I must not be man enough to get the expedited treatment. Instead, I got a spinal cord injury and early stage bowel cancer. I wonder how as a man, I can start convincing doctors in my country to give me this treatment all the other men are getting behind my back. Maybe next time I should start with dropping my pants first and hanging dong so they know im on their team.