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    Doctors warn against ‘overwhelming’ surge of online disinformation on menopause

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    1. Civil-Acanthaceae484 on

      What is the misinformation they’re talking about? This article is so vague

    2. According_Hat2751 on

      Maybe experts could start providing real information about women’s health. That would be nice. Rather than reading made up stuff on the internet, and telling us to avoid it.

    3. CucumberLocal3208 on

      That’s kind of funny since online information is more advanced and accurate than they are. Doctors are famous for telling women their symptoms don’t exist. They don’t even include women in drug trials. They probably just don’t like us using the Internet because they don’t want us to have information that makes it harder for them to dismiss us.

    4. Glittering_Joke3438 on

      Maybe if they actually took women’s symptoms seriously women wouldn’t be seeking help elsewhere.

    6. AuxNimbus on

      Now we’re worried about this shit lmao. We had that chance with vaccine and other medicines but much freedom, amirite????

    8. PandaBeaarAmy on

      Good thing our provinces are defunding healthcare and making it inaccessible to the average canadian

    9. Revan462222 on

      I’m saddened by these comments because it really shows how many doctors out there could be not providing the right kind of care. I’m a guy so obviously I cannot relate to what women deal with in menopause or any of life really, but my doctor still listens and helps with any ailment I’ve got or think I’ve got, doesn’t tell me it’s in my head and goes over my symptoms to help me determine what could be happening. Obviously I don’t know if he’s the same with female patients, but I would hope so. I raise this just as a way of saying there are good doctors out there that do listen and provide proper information….but sadly feel like there’s not enough of them and as a result it pushes women to seek information elsewhere and they then get misled. v.v

    10. emmadonelsense on

      Then maybe stop calling it anxiety and treating it like a mental illness. What a nothing article. The equivalent of “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.” How dare we try to inform and help ourselves and demand to be counted and studied, that must be hard for the medical establishment to swallow. After all, we’re just little men with pesky hormones, right? /s FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️

    11. Daylyn33 on

      When I found the lump in my breast, my doctor insisted it wasn’t cancer because it wasn’t a soft squishy lump, it was hard and round. I insisted on u/s and mammo. Again told not cancer so I pushed for a biopsy.

      Triple negative breast cancer and that lump doubled in size while I was arguing with my doctor for 2 months. So grateful to still be here and I saved my own life. Literally. Cuz triple negative is no joke.

      Advocating and standing up for ourselves is the only way.

    12. LavenderHeels on

      So many symptoms of female health conditions would be considered pathological if they affected men at the same rate, but are just dismissed as “within the large range of normal” for women

      I know countless women, myself included, who have been severely iron deficient anemic for *decades*. Not just low iron and low hemoglobin, but functioning at levels that would trigger immediate exploratory diagnostics if it occurred in men. I just got used to being tired, breathless, and brainfogged all the time. It wasn’t until i had doctors take it seriously and raise my iron for the first time in my entire life that i realized that this constant fatigue was not normal and didn’t have to be that way

      A lot of women seek information online because when they have uncaring doctors they’re told to just live with symptoms that wouldn’t be considered tolerable side effects if they were male patients

      One of the other examples i can give for this is the discontinuation of male birth control pill trials because of side effects like depression/mood swings, mild acne, and mild weight gain—-those were considered unacceptable for the market, meanwhile those are the least bad side effects of pretty much every female birth control pill (plus we also get migraine risk and stroke risk for ours too yay)

    13. MamaRunsThis on

      This article almost seems like an ad for the Ask Elina app but I digress. The problem is a lot of doctors aren’t up to speed on the latest research on hormone replacement therapy and they brush their patients off because they’re unsure how to treat them.

      It’s important that women receive HRT within 10 years of menopause to get the health benefits: bone and heart health and dementia prevention

    15. roscodawg on

      Article doesn’t talk about the root cause, lack of ready access to a family doctor where real issues can be discussed.

    16. ScuffedUpPirateBoots on

      It would be really great if we did have reliable information the same way we have about puberty. I just hit my early 40s, and I’ve been having occasional night sweats, my anxiety has gotten worse, sleeping worse, and I’ve started to get aches and pains. I’ve been going through physio for the new pains but a large majority of woman I know is telling me these all perimenopausal symptoms. Some still think I’m too young. Part of me knows you can have multiple conditions at once, but another part of me wonders if I am going through the change – it’s so hard to know. I had to visit my doctor 5 times between 2 months to try and address everything and the last visit was asking me if I want to try anti-depressants.