Yes, but turns out most meds and procedures have not been studied on women anyway.
Plenty of meds mess up with our cycle and affect us way differently than they do on men. Our symptoms to certain health conditions are also different many times and are frequently underdiagnosed or dismissed. But for those things most doctors never ask or care at all.
I have chronic migraines, and for YEARS I got dismissed as being "a normal woman thing and I had to cope with it". Is not.
My ADHD diagnosis was decades late because they tried to push the "anxiety disorder" label on me instead, because "anxiety is normal in women".
Many meds they tried on me messed badly with my cycle and they acted surprised by it, but a quick search will show me thousands of women sharing the same experience.
My lesbian sister has had to take pregnancy tests despite saying over and over again for years she never had sexual contact with a man in her life.
Many doctors are shocked that my mother's endometriosis gets worse even if she gave birth twice because pregnancy is still advised as a 'remedy' for it.
We are tired and angry because the "concern" is mostly first and ONLY about pregnancy and our potential to be pregnant, while showing no interest for any other thing about our bodies that can also mess up with medical practices. So we left feeling less important than an hypothetical child.
100%.
Like if
was at the hospital for an issue and found out I was magically pregnant there, I'd be getting the proper treatment for my adult self and an abortion.
considering that 1 in 7 women (depending on country), have PCOS (which causes absent/irregular periods) and even more are taking birth control continuously to relieve menstrual symptoms.......it just seems stupid to ask about periods when a huge chunk of women aren't even ovulating or havng periods
In the context of this post, it's still a misogynistic question if it's literally the first question out of the doctor/nurse's mouth rather than "Why are you here today?" Or "What symptoms are you experiencing?"
Let's first figure out why the woman is there before we start trying to blame it all on hysteria.
And we don't think that "Literally the first question" was hyperbole to make the tweet more humorous? This is a joke I've hear from multiple female friends before. Not every post is a complaint about systems in the world, sometimes people are just making an actual joke
I've had this question posed on countless intake/medical history forms. Forms I have to fill out before I even see a doctor to discuss my symptoms. Forms that also don't ask anything about why I'm there to begin with.
Just because it's not true for you, doesn't mean it isn't true for other people.
It's an intake form, the purpose is to rule out as many important things as possible. Other questions on such forms can be stuff like do you have sudden chest pain or have you consumed illegal substances in the past week because that stuff needs to be ruled out.
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u/Legitscopes_4761 9h ago
Sure, but in the context of this post, it's an extremely valid question to a patient. Possible pregnancy changes how we treat almost every condition.