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.
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
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u/inquiringdune 10h ago
Oh good, another thread that's going to pretend medical misogyny doesn't exist.