Differentiating ‘normal menstrual changes’ [1] from PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome) ‘symptoms’ is a big problem for patients, clinicians, and researchers [2]. There is no biological test that can be used to
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Archives for Underlying conditions
Menstrual cycle length… What’s normal?
Image credit: Pastorius on Wikimedia- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plastic_tape_measure.jpg Many people are concerned because they think that their cycle is too short, too long, or just not ‘regular’ enough... Sometimes, there is a health
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Differential diagnosis and the menstruation taboo
This week’s blog cuts to the very core of what Menstrual Matters is about- how the menstrual cycle (and/or contraceptive medications) are all too easily dismissed, or denied, as a
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Why menstrual leave is not the solution.
Last Friday, menstrual leave was back in news headlines again, after a BBC-commissioned YouGov survey found that ‘most women workers have experienced period pain that affects their ability to work’.
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Gender, depression and suicide; sorting fact from fiction.
Trigger warning: This post includes content on suicide; including statistics, methods, and contributing factors. It was also difficult to avoid using gender normative language e.g. ‘men’ and ‘women’ since it
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